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HISTORY 


The  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 


WORCESTER,  MASS. 


(1849-1881) 


WITH  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 


Editor 
Martha  Burt  Wright 

Associate  Editor 
Anna   M.    Bancroft 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


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The    Founding  of   the  Oread, 

Life  of   Eli   Thayer, 

Reminiscences  of  the  Early  Years  of  the  Oread, 

Oread  Teachers   from   1849  to  1850. 

biographies  of  Tea<  hers  from  [849  to  1859, 

Oread   Pupils  from  184910  [859,    . 

Graduates,        ..... 
Non-Graduates,  .... 

Dr.  Pattisbn's  Administration.  1859  to  18(14. 
Reminiscences  of  the  Oread  under  Dr.  Pattison, 
Oread  Teachers   from  1859  to   1864, 

Dr.  Pattison  and  his  Family, 

Assistant  Teachers, 

Oread  Pupils  from  1859  to  [864, 

Graduates, 
Non-Graduates, 

The  Oread   from    1864  to   1881, 

The  Shepardson-Packard  Administration, 
Mr.  Greene's  Administration, 
The  Closing  Years  of  the  School, 

id  Teachers  from  1804  to  1881 

The  Principals, 
The  Faculty, 

Oread  Pupils  from  [864  to  188 1,  , 
Graduates,  .... 
Non-4  rradu  ites, 

<  >read  Castle  in  1905, 

llistory  of  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute  Asso 

Constitution  and  By-Laws, 
Members  of  the  Association, 

Additional   Biographies, 
Index  of  Residences   (1905), 
Index  of  Names,     . 


111. 
20-38 


39-51 


143-146 

147-150 


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160-163 


164-226 


188-226 


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229-238 

238, 239 


240-272 


451-4'..- 


£81676 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Oread  Castle Frontispiece 

Eli  Thayer opposite  page  6 

The  Oread  and  its  surroundings  in  1852,       .          .          .          .          •  II 

Old  woodcut  of  the  Oread  found  in  the  early  catalogues.      .          .  14 

The  Chapel, 143 

The  Dining  Room,         .........  M7 

The  Class  of   iS6t    (graduating  picture),       .....  164 

The  Class  of  1861    (recent   pictures),    ......  165 

Ellen  Palmer  Dean,  her  husband  and  family,         ....  176 

Harris  Ray  Greene,       .........  229 

The   Drawing   Room,    ...                    .....  ^3- 

~Slr.    Greene's    Study,     .........  232 

Mrs.  Greene's  Parlor,    .........  238 

A   South   Tower   Bed-room,           .......  238 

Harris  R.  Greene  and  his   family,          ......  244 

In  Memoriam,  Class  of  1870,         .......  291 

Rear  of  the  Oread, 449 

The   Kitchen   Laboratory,      ........  449 


PREFACE 


TO  be  born,  to  live  a  life,  and  to  die  is  the  destiny  of  all 
earthly  things,  and  the  value  of  the  life  depends  not  so 
much  on  its  length  as  upon  its  character  and  purpose.,  and 
whether  its  purpose  has  been  accomplished.  The  Oread  Col- 
legiate Institute  existed  only  one  generation.  What  its  purpose 
was  and  how  that  purpose  was  accomplished,  it  is  the  object  of 
this  book  to  shov* . 

Its  life  began  in  the  early  days  when  no  college  except  Ober- 
lin  opened  its  doors  to  women,  a  quarter  of  a  century  before 
Mt.  Holyoke  became  a  college,  and  when  there  was  as  yet  no 
Vassar,  nor  Wellesley,  nor  Bryn  Mawr,  nor  Smith  to  furnish  the 
higher  education  to  women  which  the  times  were  now  beginning 
to  demand.  Upon  Mt.  Oread,  as  it  was  afterwards  called,  there 
arose  unexpectedly  out  of  its  barren  and  rocky  eminence,  a 
unique  building  like  a  veritable  old  castle  with  its  gray  walls 
and  turreted  towers,  giving  no  evidence,  from  its  appearance, 
of  the  purpose  fur  which  it  was  designed.  Here  a  school  was 
founded  which  was  one  of  the  first  to  furnish  a  college  educa- 
tion to  women.  This  book  tells  us  of  the  good  work  which  it 
accomplished,  of  its  Christian  influence  and  its  high  moral  tone, 
of  its  growth  and  prosperity,  until,  its  work  being  completed,  it 
gave  place  at  length  to  younger  colleges.  Although  our  Alma 
Mater  exists  to-day  only  in  the  lives  of  those  who  were  educated 
here,  yet  her  influence  lives  on,  and  we  would  not  forget  that 

"I  he  past  has  made  us  what  we  are  to-day 
By  its  slow  progress  and  its  sure  decay. 
All  that  we  have,  and  prize,  and  keep  in  store 
Came  from  the  toils  of  those  who  lived  before. 
Scorn  not  the  heritage  in  trust  bestowed, 
Nor  underrate  the  source  from  which  it  flowed. 
Upon  life's  ladder  to  a  higher  stagi 
Have  we  ascended  in  this  latter  age. 
We'll  not  ignore  the  steps,  moss-grown  and  gray, 
Nor  scorn  the  scaffolding  that  falls  away."  * 

*  From  the  poem  of  Rev.  S.  Dryden  Phelps  read  at  the  Graduation 
Exercises  of  the  Class  of  1871. 


viii  Preface 

Although  our  original  intention  in  collecting  the  biographies 
included  in  this  book  was  to  give  pleasure  to  old  pupils  of  the 
school  by  furnishing  them  information  about  Oread  friends 
and  teachers,  we  have  unconsciously  gathered  together  in  them 
a  high  tribute  to  the  value  of  the  Oread  training,  which  not 
only  inspired  its  pupils  to  a  love  of  study,  but  was  also  practical 
and  fitted  them  for  the  ordinal"}"  but  not  less  important  duties 
of  life.  Many  who  were  trained  here  continued  their  studies 
after  leaving  school  and  became  prominent  in  educational  and 
literary  work,  and  some  have  done  heroic  and  self-sacrificing 
service  on  the  foreign  and  home  missionary  fields.  Others 
returned  home  to  take  up  the  tasks  that  were  getting  burden- 
some for  father  and  mother.  Many  went  out  to  bless  the  com- 
munities in  which  they  lived  by  works  of  love  and  charity,  to 
build  up  happy  homes,  to  train  up  children  for  positions  of  use- 
fulness and  honor,  and  thus  to  hand  on  to  other  generations 
the  influences  received  here.  None  have  done  the  Oread  more 
honor  than  these. 

In  presenting  this  History  to  the  friends  and  pupils  of  the 
(  )read  the  Editors  take  pleasure  in  making  the  following 
acknowledgements : 

Thirty-four  members  of  the  Association  were  selected  to 
serve  as  Assistant  Editors  of  the  Oread  History.  Twenty-one 
of  these  were  assigned  the  work  of  procuring  the  biographies 
of  members  of  the  graduating  classes,  their  assignments  being 
as  follows  : 

Class  of  1854 Mrs.   S.  Jane  Wheelock   llickok 

Class  of  [855  and  57..... Miss  Elizabeth  1).  Bugbee 

('las>  of  [856 Mrs.  Mary  Frances  Gilman  Peiree 

Class  of  [86] Mrs.   Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison 

('las,  of  [862 Mrs.   Emma  Spaulding  Bartlett 

Class  of  [863 Miss  Anna   M.   Bancroft 

Class  "f  [864 Miss   Kale  A.   Harrington 

Class  "i"  [865 Mrs.  Clara  Thayer  Perry 

1  la  3  of  [866 Miss  Anna  M.  Seaver 

('las.   of    [868 Mrs.  Mary    Adams    Irish 

Class   of    [869 Miss  Mary    F.   Spink 

Class  of   [870 .Mrs.  Hattie  Lathrop  Anthony 

('las,  of   1S71 Mrs.  Martha   Burl   Wright 

Class  m|"   [872 Mrs.  Ella   Williams   Fiske 


Preface  ix 

('lass  of  1873 Mrs.  Lizzie   Wedge   Wells 

("lass  of  1874 Ali>.  Ellen  Tuck  McLane 

Class  of  1875 Mrs.  Abbie  Junes   llayward 

Class  of  1876 Mrs.  Carrie   Bassett   Macomber 

Class  of  1877 Mi-s  Fannie  A.  Greene 

Class  of  1878 Mrs.  Mary  Rose  Pepper 

Class  of  1879 Mrs.  Etta  DeLand  Gay 

Of  the  one  hundred  twenty-seven  graduates  of  the  Oread  these 
Assistant  Editors  succeeded  in  finding-  all  but  twenty-one.  The 
missing-  biographies  have  since  been  secured  by  the  Editor  and 
the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Association,  so  that  the 
record  of  graduates  as  found  in  this  book  is.  as  far  as  is  known, 
absolutely  complete. 

Six  of  these  Graduate  Editors,  with  ten  others,  obtained  the 
biographies  of  the  non-graduates,  their  assignments  being  as 
follows  : 

Pupils  entering  in  1849-57 Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee  and 

Miss  Esther  H.  Baker 

Pupils  entering  in  1857-59  and  in  iS69.Mrs.  Laura  Goodnow  Matoon* 

Pupils  entering  in  i860 Mrs.  Eleanor  Bliss  Dexter 

Pupils  entering  in  1861 Miss  S.  Maria  Westbrook 

Pupils  entering  in  1862.  65.  and  71   ....Miss  Anna  M.  Bancroft 

Pupils  entering  in  1863,  64,  66,  75,  78.  .Miss  Anna  M.   Seaver 

Pupils  entering  in  1867 Mrs.  Ella  Eddy  Briggs 

Pupils  entering  in  1868 Mrs.  Emily   Kingsbury   Shattuck 

Pupils  entering  in  1870 Mrs.  Ella  Williams  Fiske 

Pupils  entering  in  1872 Mrs.   Abbie  Fiske  Judd 

Pupils  entering  in  1873 Mrs.  Florence  Whidden   Stowell 

Pupils  entering  in  1874 Mrs.  Jennie  Taft  Wheelock 

Pupils  entering  in  1876 Miss  Fannie  A.  Greene 

Pupils  entering  in  1877 Mrs.  Mary  Rose  Pepper 

Pupils  entering  in  1879-81 Miss  Ida  M.  Thayer 

The  non-graduate  record  contained  in  this  book  is  inevitably 
very  incomplete.  Several  whose  addresses  were  known  did 
not  reply,  the  addresses  of  very  man}-  are  still  unknown,  and 
even  the  names  of  many  who  attended  the  Oread  are  probably 
still  unfound.  owing  to  an  incompleteness  in  the  file  of  cata- 
logues. In  order  to  make  sure  that  no  one  was  left  out  who 
would  be  glad  to  be  included  the  Associate  Editor  sent  a  second 
circular  to  all  whose  addresses  were  known  and  who  did  not 
reply  to  the  first  circular.     Beyond  this  it  was  impossible  to  go. 

*  Deceased,  June  28.  1905. 


x  Preface 

The  task  of  procuring  the  biographies  of  the  teachers  was 
assigned  to  five  Editors,  as  follows : 

Teachers  of  1840-59 Miss  Mary  S.  and  Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Clapp 

Dr.   Pattison's  Family Mrs.  Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison 

Teachers  of   1859-79 Mrs.  Martha  Burt  Wright 

Teachers  of  1879-81 Miss  Abbie  S.  Davis 

The  following  agreed  to  be  responsible  for  the  financial  suc- 
cess of  the  work,  Mrs.  Rockefeller  to  the  amount  of  $100,  the 
others  to  the  amount  of  $50  each  : 

Miss  Esther  H.  Baker, 
Miss  Anna  M.  Bancroft, 
Mrs.  Mary  Bancroft  Winsor, 
Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee, 
Mrs.  Martha  Burt  Wright, 
Mrs.  Alice  Bigelow  Knowles, 
Mrs.  Ida  Boyden  Day, 
Mrs.  Laura  Merriam  Mayo, 
Mrs.  Laura  Spelman  Rockefeller, 
Mrs.  Eli  Thayer  and  family, 
The  Class  of   1861. 

For  the  facts  contained  in  the  first  chapter  of  this  History, 
"The  Founding  of  the  Oread,"  the  Editors  are  indebted  to 
Air.  Franklin  Rice  of  Worcester,  who  kindly  loaned  the  manu- 
script copy  of  a  chapter  on  that  subject  in  his  unpublished  Fife 
of  Eli  Thayer. 

The  third  chapter,  "Reminiscences  of  the  Early  Years  of 
the  Oread,"  was  made  by  welding  together  material  obtained 
from  a  large  number  of  sources.  Among  these  may  be  men- 
tioned as  of  special  importance  the  manuscript  of  an  address 
given  by  Mrs.  S.  jane  Wheelock  Hickok  at  the  third  annual 
meeting  of  the  O.  C.  I.  A.,  and  extracts  from  letters  written 
b)  Bernette  Mill  in  [855  56,  and  loaned  to  the  Editors  by  Mr. 
G.  B.  Williams  of  Milford,  Mass..  her  husband.  Much  valua- 
ble material  was  also  furnished  by  Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee, 
Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Clapp,  Miss  Susan  F.  Fairbank,  Mrs.  Cor- 
delia Loring  Brooks  and  Mrs.  Mary  ('apron  Mason.  We  are 
also  deeply  indebted  to  a  large  number  of  other  early  <  )reades, 
who  have  shown  unusual  kindness  and  interest  in  answering 
our  numer<  ius  inquiries. 

To  the  Corresponding  Secretary  oi  the  Association,  Miss 
Anna  M.  Seaver.  we  are  beholden   for  much  o|   the  material  in 


Preface  xi 

the  chapter  "Dr.  Pattison's  Administration."  The  chapter 
following,  "Reminiscences  of  the  Oread  under  Dr.  Pattison," 
bears  the  name  of  its  author  beneath  its  title.  It  is  unnecessary 
to  add  that  an  article  by  the  pen  of  Helen  Kendrick  Johnson 
would  give  a  touch  of  distinction  to  any  hook. 

.Mrs.  Charles  A.  Dean  of  Wellesley  Farms,  Mass.,  though 
not  herself  an  Dread  pupil,  has  always  shown  deep  interest  in 
the  Oread  and  the  Association.  In  token  of  this  interest,  and 
as  a  memorial  to  her  two  Oread  sisters,  Rosalinda  Healy  Palmer 
of  the  class  of  1855,  and  Ellen  Pleroma  Palmer  of  the  class 
of  1862,  she  has  given  one  hundred  dollars  towards  the  publi- 
cation of  this  book.  A  perusal  of  their  biographies  will  show- 
that  to  very  few  whose  lives  are  recorded  here  could  a  memorial 
be  more  fittingly  given.  Both  were  noble  women  who  lived 
lives  consecrated  to  the  good  of  others,  though  in  entirely 
different  spheres  of  action.  Rosalinda,  a  girl  of  rugged  piety, 
exceptional  mental  gifts  and  strong  pioneer  virtues,  early  took 
upon  herself,  as  the  eldest  daughter  in  a  family  of  small  means, 
the  task  of  not  only  winning  an  education  for  herself,  but  of 
helping  the  four  younger  sisters  to  do  the  same.  Though 
devoted  to  her  family,  she  was  a  woman  of  large  interests  and 
sympathies  and  was  a  source  of  strength,  cheer,  and  courage  to 
many  a  weaker  soul.     She  died  in  early  maturity. 

To  Ellen  were  opened  the  unusual  opportunities  of  service  in 
home  missionary  fields.  Like  the  Apostles  of  old,  she  counted 
the  many  trials  and  hardships  incident  to  her  labors  as  "all 
joy,"  and  the  amount  of  work  she  accomplished  was  little  less 
than  marvelous.  In  addition  to  the  ordinary  duties  of  pastor's 
wife  and  mother  of  a  large  family  of  children,  she  was  tire- 
lessly active  in  organizing  and  upbuilding  societies  for  Christian 
work  of  all  kinds,  in  raising  monev  for  church  and  benevolent 
ends,  and  in  doing  countless  deeds  of  kindness  to  the  poor  and 
needy.  She  educated  all  her  children,  partially  preparing  the 
two  eldest  for  college.     She  died  at  the  age  of  sixty. 

The  family  of  Mr.  Eli  Thayer,  founder  of  the  Oread,  and 
Mrs.  Harris  R.  Greene,  wife  of  its  well-known  Principal, 
have  rendered  us  invaluable  services  in  furnishing  facts,  other- 
wise unattainable,  both  for  the  historical  and  the  biographical 
parts   of   the   book.     Mrs.    Thayer   and   her    family   have   con- 


xii  Preface 

stituted  a  final  court  of  decision  in  all  doubtful  cases,  especially 
with  regard  to  the  early  years  of  the  school. 

Miss  Alice  Wright  has  been  her  mother's  secretary  and  has 
devoted  her  time  almost  exclusively  for  the  past  year  to  the 
preparation  of  the  material  for  the  press  and  the  correcting  of 
the  proof.  A  complete  Index  of  Names  has  been  made  by 
Dr.  Henry   B.   Wright. 

The  pleasant  task  of  giving  "honor  to  whom  honor  is  due" 
cannot  be  concluded  without  a  reference  to  her  without  whose 
arduous  and  untiring  labors,  cheerfully  given,  this  history  could 
not  have  been.  We  refer  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of 
the  Association,  Miss  Anna  M.  Seaver.  Starting  in  1901  with 
only  three  catalogues  and  only  five  or  six  known  present 
addresses,  she  had  at  the  time  of  the  decision  to  publish  a 
History  in  kjo2,  compiled  a  list  of  over  1,400  names  of  former 
Oread  pupils,  and  had  obtained  the  addresses  of  over  800.  The 
large  majority  of  the  biographies  found  in  this  book  were 
obtained  through  a  use  of  her  lists,  which  had  been  published, 
or  from  additions  to  these  lists  which  she  has  been  constantly 
making. 

If  we  are  to  give  due  credit  to  all  who  have  assisted  us,  the 
list  should  not  be  limited  even  to  the  large  number  already  men- 
tioned. To  the  many  Oreades  who  have  given  of  their  time 
and  interest  in  searching  for  missing  dates  and  facts,  and  in 
obtaining  biographies  of  Oreades  long  since  passed  away,  who 
have  expressed  in  so  kindly  a  way  their  pleasant  anticipations  of 
the  hook,  and  yet  who  have  shown  so  much  patience  in  waiting 
for  the  large  task  of  its  publication  to  be  accomplished,  we  can 
only  render  our  heartfelt  thanks,  and  hope  they  may  find  some 
measure  of  reward  in  the  perusal  of  this  book  which  they  them- 
selves have  so  largely  helped  to  make. 

M.    B.    W. 

New  I  [aven,  (  !onn., 
July  7,    1905. 


THE  FOUNDING  OF  THE  OREAD 


THE  Oread  Collegiate  Institute  was  founded  by  Mr.  Eli 
Thayer  in  the  late  forties.  Becoming  convinced  that  it 
was  one  of  the  demands  of  the  age  that  young  women 
have  the  same  opportunity  for  study  and  intellectual  develop- 
ment as  young  men,  he  began  with  characteristic  energy  and 
originality  to  work  towards  this  end,  and  for  several  years 
devoted  his  time  and  means  untiringly  to  its  accomplishment. 
The  establishment  of  the  Oread  was  his  original  conception, 
and  he  carried  out  his  plan  without  asking  advice  or  assistance 
from  anyone. 

Sometime  in  1845  ne  purchased  a  tract  of  land  on  what  was 
then  known  as  Goat  Hill,  a  barren  and  rocky  eminence  in  the 
suburbs  of  Worcester.  By  subsequent  purchase  he  enlarged  this 
field  till  it  covered  about  ten  acres,  extending  to  and  including 
the  lot  on  which  the  Piedmont  Church  now  stands.  For  the 
school  buildings  Air.  Thayer  was  his  own  architect.  He  per- 
-1  mally  supervised  the  work  of  construction,  and  we  can  easily 
believe  that  no  workman  ever  ventured  to  disagree  with  him 
or  disobey  him  about  his  plans  or  methods.  How  little  Mr. 
Thayer  had  said  to  outsiders  about  his  scheme,  and  how  little 
he  had  sought  the  advice  and  support  of  others,  is  shown  by 
the  fact  that  his  intention  to  erect  a  young  ladies'  school  on 
the  summit  of  the  hill  he  had  bought  was  not  discovered  till 
a  part  of  the  structure  was  nearly  completed. 

Mr.  Thayer's  original  plan  was  a  building  resembling  a 
feudal  castle  of  the  Middle  Ages,  in  the  form  of  a  quadrangle. 
with  an  inner  court  about  170  feet  square.  Circular  towers 
50  feet  in  diameter  and  four  stories  high  were  to  be  placed  at 
the  four  corners.  These  were  to  be  connected  by  four  halls, 
each  three  stories  high  and  40  feet  deep,  the  whole  to  be  used 
for  dormitories,  recitation  and  lecture  rooms,  dining  rooms. 
reception  rooms,  and  other  apartments  which  such  an  institu- 
tion would  require.  The  building  thus  planned  wras  designed 
to  accommodate  about  six  hundred  students,  more  than  were 


2  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

then  found  in  any  American  college.  The  foundation  of  the 
north  tower  was  laid  in  1848  and  the  tower  completed  in  1849. 
The  south  tower  was  finished  in  1850,  and  the  east  hall,  con- 
necting these  two  towers,  in  1852,  the  whole  having  a  frontage 
of  250  feet.  The  other  parts  included  in  the  original  plan  were 
never  begun.  It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  the  stone  used  in 
the  construction  of  the  building  was  quarried  from  the  hill  on 
which  it  was  to  be  erected. 

Mr.  Thayer  called  the  new  school  the  Oread  Collegiate 
Institute,  and  named  the  hill  on  which  it  stands  Mt.  Oread. 
The  name  was  suggested  by  Vergil's  lines  on  the  mountain 
nymphs  who  followed  Diana,  Aen.  I.  500, — 

quam    mille  secutae 
Hiuc  atque  hinc  glomerantur  Oreades. 

The  building  was  called  by  the  pupils  Oread  Castle.* 

The  school  was  opened  May  14,  1849,  though  at  that  time 
the  north  tower  only  was  completed.  The  fourth  story  con- 
tained seven  rooms  and  was  occupied  by  fourteen  boarding 
pupils,  two  being  placed  in  each  room.  Day  scholars  were 
also  admitted.  During  this  year  instruction  was  given  in  a 
single  large  room  on  the  third  floor,  the  dining  room  was  on 
the  lower  floor,  and  the  remainder  of  the  tower  was  occupied 
by  Mr.  Thayer  and  his  family. f  Mr.  Thayer  and  Mrs. 
Thayer's  sister,  Miss  Rebecca  Capron,  taught  all  subjects 
except  French,  which  was  in  charge  of  a  non-resident  instructor 
from  the  city.  The  records  of  this  year  are  not  preserved,  but 
we  are  told  that  Ellen  Capron  was  the  first  pupil,  and  that 
the  following  were  among  the  first, — Juliet  Warner,  Maria 
Partridge,  Isabella  and  Addie  Flagg,  Hannah  Pond  and  Susan 
I  )arling. 

After  the  second  tower  was  completed,  a  year  later,  it  was 
occupied  by  the  boarding  pupils  and  resident  teachers.     It  also 

;::  In  honor  of  Mr.  Thayer,  whose  Emigrant  Aid  Company  sent  settlers 
into  Lawrence  County  and  did  so  much  to  make  Kansas  a  free  state. 
the  name  Mt.  Oread  was  given  to  the  projection  of  the  bluff  bordering 
on  the  Kansas  River  Valley  at  Lawrence,  on  which  the  University  of 
Kansas  was  located  in   [866. 

f  This  tower  was  Mr.  Thayer's  residence  until  December,  [898,  when 
the  building  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Henry  I ).  Perky  in  order  to  estab- 
lish  the    School   nt    Domestic   Science. 


Founding   of  the  Oread  3 

contained,  besides  dormitory  rooms,  the  music  rooms,  recitation 
rooms,  and  chapel.  The  dining  room  was  still  in  the  north 
tower,  which,  before  building  operations  on  the  connecting  ball 

were  begun,  was  connected  with  the  south  tower  by  a  plank 
walk,  across  which  the  girls  marched  three  times  a  day  to  their 
meals.  After  the  first  story  of  the  hall  was  built  the  girls 
passed  back  and  forth  through  the  unfinished  building.  The 
resident  teachers  of  this  year  were  only  two  in  number,  besides 
Mr.  Thayer.  Miss  Clarke  was  now  the  Preceptress  (called  in 
those  days  "the  Governess"),  while  Miss  Capron  remained  as 
teacher  of  music.  According"  to  the  prospectus  of  this  year, 
there  were  three  non-resident  teachers,  the  French  instructor, 
Mons.  Mailly,  Mr.  Henry  Woodward,  teacher  of  Painting  and 
Drawing,  and  Miss  Cornelia  A.  Brigham,  Assistant  in  the  Eng- 
lish branches.  The  school  was  already  beginning  to  be  a 
popular  one  in  the  immediate  vicinity.  There  were  many  day 
scholars,  and  although  the  boarders  were  mostly  from  the 
nearby  towns,  all  the  Xew  England  states  were  represented. 
The  boarding  pupils  this  year  are  reported  to  have  been  twenty- 
two  in  number. 

Upon  the  completion  of  the  whole  eastern  facade  in  1852, 
the  school  became  at  once  popular,  and  the  boarding  pupils 
entirely  filled  the  building,  while  the  day  scholars  brought  the 
whole  number  in  attendance  well  up  towards  one  hundred  and 
fifty.     In   1854  there  were  twelve  teachers. 

At  no  period  in  its  history  was  the  school  more  prosperous, 
nor  did  it  ever  have  a  higher  standard  of  scholarship  than  in 
the  years  between  1852  and  1856.  Mr.  Thayer  had  planned 
an  institution  of  a  high  order,  and  it  proved  itself  one  worthy 
to  be  called  a  woman's  college.  Three  departments  were 
established,  primary,  academic,  and  collegiate,  the  latter  of 
which  offered  a  four  years'  course  of  study  closely  modelled 
after  that  of  Brown  University,  of  which  Mr.  Thayer  was  a 
graduate  in  the  class  of  1845.  Besides  the  regular  academic 
studies,  instruction  was  also  provided  in  painting,  drawing, 
music,  and  other  branches  considered  essential  in  the  education 
of  women.  Nor  was  physical  training  neglected.  Regular 
exercises  in  gymnastics  were  recpiired  of  every  pupil,  "as 
means  of  health  and  to  develop  symmetry  of  form  and  grace  of 
carriage ;"     the    students   were   expected   to   walk   daily    in    the 


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open  air ;  and  a  stone  barn  and  riding  amphitheatre,  in  archi- 
tectural harmony  with  the  main  building',  were  erected  on  the 
grounds  soon  after  the  school  was  established,  to  provide  an 
opportunity   for  equestrian  exercise. 

The  spirit  with  which  Mr.  Thayer  embarked  on  this  new 
enterprise,  the  independence  with  which  he  assumed  the  entire 
burden  of  responsibility. — be  the  outcome  success  or  failure — 


RIDING     AMPHITHEATRE     AND     STONE     BARN. 


is  shown  in  the  following  statement  which  was  printed  in  some 
of  the  early  catalogues  : 

"Individual  effort  originated  and  has  thus  far  sustained  this 
institution.  It  lias  received  no  endowments  from  private  muni- 
ficence or  public  bounty,  except  good  wishes  and  liberal  patron- 
age. This  is  all  the  endowment  it  will  receive  in  the  future. 
Whatever  may  be  the  result,  it  must  stand  on  its  own  merits, 
and  the  will  of  the  people.  We  hope  that  its  patronage  will 
never  be  prompted  by  any  feelings  ol  compassion  or  condescen- 
sion. We  sell  education  at  cost.  1 1"  our  merchandise  is  not 
worth  our  price,  or  if  we  have  brought  wares  to  the  market 
for  which  there  is  no  demand,  we  ask  no  one  to  share  our  loss. 


Founding  of  the  Oread  5 

"Oread  Castle  was  founded  in  good  faith,  under  the  honest 
conviction  that  it  might  serve  the  country,  and  the  world.  by 
advancing,  in  some  degree,  the  able  cause  to  which  it  is  devoted. 
Such,  we  hope,  may  he  its  destiny." 

But  although  Mr.  Thayer  put  himself  under  obligation  to 
no  one  in  his  undertaking,  he  had  the  cordial  approval  and 
moral  support  of  many  eminent  persons,  among  the  number 
being  Francis  Wayland  and  Barnas  Sears.  Presidents  of  Brown 
University;    Rev.   George  Bushnell,  the  first  pastor  of   Salem 


WASHBURN 


EDWARD   EVERETT    HALE. 


Street  Congregational  Church  and  the  first  Superintendent  of 
Schools  in  Worcester :  Edward  Everett  Hale,  then  settled  over 
the  Church  of  the  Unity  in  Worcester  ;  Lydia  Maria  Child,  the 
distinguished  author  and  anti-slavery  champion,  and  Hon. 
Henry  S.  Washburn  of  Worcester,  best  known  as  author  of 
"The  Vacant  Chair."  ::  All  of  these,  with  the  exception  of 
Miss  Child,  were  on  his  Board  of  Reference  for  many  years. 

*  "The  Vacant  Chair"  was  written  in  memory  of  Willie  Grout,  who 
was  killed  by  a  spent  ball  after  distinguishing  himself  by  acts  of  notable 
bravery  at  the  Battle  of  Ball's  Bluff.  October  21,  1861.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  held  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant,  though  only  eighteen 
years  old.  He  was  the  brother  of  Xellie  and  Lizzie  Grout.,  who  were 
pupils  at  the  Oread  under  Mr.  Thayer  and  Dr.  Pattison. 


LIFE  OF  ELI  THAYER 


ELI  THAYER  was  born  in  Mendon,  Mass.,  June  n,  1819. 
He  was  seventh  in  direct  descent  from  John  Alden  and 
Priscilla  through  Ruth,  daughter  of  Rev.  Noah  Alden  of  Bell- 
ingham,  who  married  his  grandfather,  Benjamin  Thayer. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  district  schools  of 
Mendon,  at  the  Bellingham  High  School,  and  in  the  Academy 
at  Amherst.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Worcester 
"Manual  Labor  School,"  afterwards  the  Worcester  Academy, 
and  graduated  from  Brown  in  1845,  the  Salutatorian  of  his 
class.  On  his  return  to  Worcester  the  following  autumn,  he 
taught  in  the  Worcester  Academy  and  soon  became  its  Prin- 
cipal, but  gave  up  this  position  in  1849  m  order  to  assume  the 
management  of  his  own  new  school,  the  Oread,  situated  on  the 
opposite  hill. 

His  duties  at  the  Oread  did  not  prevent  him  from  taking  an 
active  interest  in  political  life,  and  from  the  time  of  his  election 
to  the  school  board  in  1852  (a  position  which  he  held  for  several 
years)  he  gave  more  and  more  attention  to  public  affairs,  leav- 
ing the  care  of  the  school  more  and  more  to  his  excellent  corps 
of  teachers.  In  1853  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board 
of  aldermen,  and  in  1853-54  he  served  as  representative  in  the 
State  Legislature,  distinguishing  himself  here  by  presenting  a 
bill  to  incorporate  the  Bank  of  Mutual  Redemption. 

hi  1854  he  proposed,  and  in  the  next  few  years  successfully 
carried  out,  the  remarkable  scheme  which  made  his  name  one 
of  the  important  ones  in  the  history  of  this  country.  His  plan 
was  to  settle  Kansas,  which  was  organized  and  opened  for 
settlement  as  a  territory  in  May,  1854,  with  enough  anti-slavery 
supporters  to  make  it  a  free  state.  He  organized  the  Emigrant 
Aid  <  ompany  and  bad  it  incorporated,  and  so  convincing  was 
his  eloquence,  so  great  the  interest  and  enthusiasm  of  the  times, 
and  so  business-like  and  practical  liis  plan,  that  a  large  number 
oi  emigrants  were  found  to  help  him  carry  it  out.  The  towns 
of  Lawrence.  Topeka,  Manhattan,  and  Ossawatomie  were  set- 


ELI   THAYER. 


Life  of  lilt   Thayer  7 

tied,  and  Kansas  was  added  to  the  list  of  free  states.  Charles 
Sumner  said  he  would  rather  haw  the  credit  that  is  due  to 
Eli  Thayer  for  his  work  in  behalf  of  Kansas  than  be  the  hero 
of  the  battle  of  Xew  Orleans. 

In  his  address  at  Topeka,  May  30.  1904,  on  the  occasion  of 
the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  the  settlement  of  Kansas, 
Secretary  Taft  said  : 

"When  the  enactment  of  the  Kansas  bill  of  1854  presented 
the  issue,  shall  Kansas  be  free  or  slave,  a  few  men — hardly  more 
than  a  dozen — determined  to  make  her  free  by  peopling  the 
state  with  citizens  who  would  forever  exclude  slavery  from  the 
limits  of  the  new  state. 

"It  is  noteworthy  that  the  professed  and  prominent  abolition- 
ists scouted  the  idea  that  this  could  be  a  successful  movement, 
and  rejected  men  engaged  in  it  as  allies  because  it  did  not 
appear  with  sufficient  clearness  that  they  were  casting  them- 
selves upon  the  altar  in  declared  and  open  sacrifice  for  the 
cause  of  the  negro.  These  theorists  seemed  not  to  be  content 
with  the  bringing  in  of  the  state  of  Kansas  as  a  free  state. 
They  demanded  that  it  must  be  brought  in  on  the  avowed  prin- 
ciple of  love  for  the  negro  and  in  his  interest.  Had  their  views 
prevailed,  Kansas  might  have  been  a  slave  state,  but  the  men 
engaged  in  the  work  were  practical  men  and  of  sterner  stuff. 
Thev  were  little  moved  by  words  or  formal  distinctions.  Eli 
Thayer  traveled  from  town  to  town  in  the  North  soliciting  aid 
for  his  emigration  society  and  recruiting  the  ranks  of  the  small 
bands  of  settlers  already  in  Kansas  or  on  their  way  there. 
When  it  became  necessary  to  have  guns,  Thayer  obtained  them 
in  the  East  and  sent  them  to  his  fellows  in  Kansas.  Robinson 
superintended  and  guided  the  movement  in  Kansas  itself. 
With  their  lives  often  at  stake,  nothing  daunted  or  discouraged 
the  two  patriots.  They  sacrificed  everything  but  honor  and 
honesty  to  the  pursuit  of  the  one  purpose  that  Kansas,  when 
admitted,  should  be  admitted  as  a  free  state.  Robinson 
restrained  his  fellows  from  serious  conflict  with  the  federal 
authority,  and  with  a  tact  and  finesse  almost  impossible  for  us 
to  understand,  limited  forcible  resistance  to  the  repudiated  ter- 
ritorial authorities  and  police.  After  two  years,  so  well  con- 
ducted was  the  campaign  of  Thayer  and  Robinson,  that  no 
movement   was  taken  on  behalf  of  the  pro-slavery  party  and 


8  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

the  border  ruffians  of  Missouri,  that  did  not  rouse  additional 
indignation  on  the  part  of  the  North  against  the  pro-slavery 
movement  in  Kansas  and  additional  sympathy  with  those  who 
were  there  fighting  the  cause  of  freedom. 

"There  are  no  greater  heroes  in  the  history  of  this  country 
than  Eli  Thayer  of  Massachusetts  and  Charles  Robinson  of 
Kansas,  who  almost  alone  and  single-handed  entered  upon  the 
work  of  peopling  a  vast  territory  with  free  and  brave  men,  so 
as  to  forever  exclude  human  slavery  from  its  limits." 

A  similar  appreciation  of  the  importance  of  Air.  Thayer's 
work  in  behalf  of  Kansas  is  expressed  in  a  letter  written  by 
Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale  to  an  old  Oread  pupil,  dated  at 
Roxbury,  Alass.,  April  7,  1903: 

"Hon.  Eli  Thayer,  who  founded  the  Oread  institute,  was  a 
remarkable  person,  to  whom  this  country  is  more  indebted  than 
the  country  knows.  At  the  moment  when  the  Southern  leaders 
chose  to  throw  Kansas  and  Nebraska  open  to  all  emigrants, 
Air.  Thayer  accepted  the  challenge.  Before  the  Act  of  Con- 
gress was  passed,  he  had  an  act  passed  by  our  Legislature  to 
form  an  Emigrant  Aid  Company.  The  consequence  of  that 
prompt  action  of  his  was  that  Kansas  became  almost  imme- 
diately a  free  state.  The  civil  war  which  began  there  seven 
years  before  the  great  Civil  War,  trained  the  young  men  of 
Kansas  to  arms,  and  the  State  of  Kansas  furnished  a  larger 
proportion  of  its  inhabitants  to  the  Union  Army  than  any  other 
state  did.  The  population  of  that  state  to  this  hour  has  been 
a  body  of  self-respecting,  intelligent  people,  the  fit  founders  of 
a  great  republic." 

In  1856  Mr.  Thayer  was  elected  to  Congress  under  most 
peculiar  circumstances.  The  Republican  candidate.  Judge 
Chapin,  had,  for  personal  reasons,  withdrawn  from  the  contest 
only  eight  days  before  the  election,  and  Mr.  Thayer  was  chosen 
to  fill  his  place  in  the  face  of  almost  inevitable  defeat.  But  in 
the  few  days  that  remained,  with  characteristic  determination. 
he  "stumped"  the  whole  of  Worcester  County,  speaking  in 
twenty  different  towns,  and  carried  the  election  by  a  majority 
of  nearly  two  to  one.  lie  took'  his  seat  in  December,  [857,  and 
kept  it  till  [861.  Me  served  on  the  Committee  on  Militia  and 
w  as  (  'hainnan  1  if  the  (  a  mnnittce  1  in  I  'nhlic  I  .ands.  The  admis- 
sion of  Oregon  to  statehood,  in  spile  of  much  opposition,  was 


Life  of  Eli  Thayei 


brought  about  wholly  by  his  untiring  efforts,  and  in  recognition 
of  this  he  was  sent  as  delegate  from  Oregon  to  the  famous 
National  Convention  of  i860. 

Under  President  Lincoln  Mr.  Thayer  was  appointed  a  special 
and  confidential  agent  of  the  Treasury  Department,  in  which 
capacity  he  served  in  1861-62. 

His  Emigrant  Aid  Company  was  so  successful  that  on  several 
occasions  Mr.  Thayer  advocated  the  same  method  for  the  solu- 
tion of  similar  problems.  In  1856  he  organized  a  company  for 
the  settling  of  some  of  the  border 
states  of  the  South  with  anti- 
slavery  settlers.  The  scheme  was 
partially  carried  out,  and  the  town 
of  Ceredo.  Virginia,  was  founded 
and  settled.  The  breaking  out  of 
the  Civil  War,  however,  prevented 
further  colonization.  In  1862  he 
proposed  to  Secretary  Stanton  a 
like  plan  for  the  military  occu- 
pancy of  Florida.  The  scheme 
was  approved  by  the  President,  the 
cabinet  officers,  the  Republicans  in 
Congress  and  by  many  army  offi- 
cers. Well-known  public  men  and 
capitalists  volunteered  their  support,  but  later  developments  in 
public  affairs  prevented  its  accomplishment.  On  different  occa- 
sions he  advocated  the  same  plan  for  the  Americanization  of 
Central  America,  and  for  the  abolition  of  the  Mormon  evil. 

From  1864  to  1870  Mr.  Thayer  was  in  New  York,  serving 
as  a  land  agent  for  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  Railroad  Com- 
pany. He  was  also  an  expert  in  matters  of  invention,  and  often 
acted  as  a  referee  in  such  cases.  He  himself  was  an  inventor 
of  prominence,  some  of  his  inventions  being  a  hydraulic  ele- 
vator, a  sectional  safety  steam  boiler,  and  an  automatic  boiler 
cleaner  or  sediment  extractor. 

Mr.  Thayer  was  always  interested  in  the  beautifying  and 
improving  of  the  city  of  Worcester.  Many  of  the  streets  and 
lots  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  Oread  were  laid  out  and  opened 
up  by  him,  and  he  had  much  to  do  with  the  development  of  the 
south  part  of  the  city  as  a  manufacturing  district.     What  was 


MR.    THAYER    IX    MIDDLE    LIFE. 


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formerly  known  as  the  Adriatic  Mills  on  Southgate  Street  was 
built  by  him,  and  he  was  influential  in  the  erection  of  the  junc- 
tion shop,  at  one  time  occupied  by  the  Knowles  loom  works, 
which  was  built  of  stone  taken  from  Oread  Hill. 


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He  was  married  in  1846  to  Miss  Caroline  M.  Capron  of  Mill- 
ville,  Mass.,  and  had  seven  children.  His  five  daughters,  Clara, 
Ida,  Eva,  Cora  and  Anna,  were  all  pupils  at  the  Oread,  and  his 
eldest  son,  John  Alden,  was  Principal  of  the  school  in  1879. 
His  other  son,  George,  lives  in  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Thayer  died  in  Worcester,  April  15,  1899.  Mrs.  Thayer 
still  resides  in  Worcester,  at  10  Hawthorne  Street. 


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OF  THE  OREAD 


WHEX  Mr.  Thayer  selected  the  site  for  his  school.  Goat 
Hill  was  then  on  the  very  outskirts  of  the  city  of 
Worcester.  While  it  was  near  enough  to  the  city  to  make  the 
literary,  musical  and  church  opportunities  of  the  latter  acces- 
sible, it  was,  at  the  same  time,  quite  a  little  outside  of  the  city 
proper.     To  those  who  have  known  the  Oread  only  within  the 


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THE    OREAD    IN    I9O4. 

last  few  years  and  think  of  it  as  situated  in  the  very  heart  of 
a  thickly  settled  portion  of  the  city,  it  will  seem  strange  to  read 
the  following  extract  from  a  letter  written  by  a  very  evidently 
homesick  new-comer  to  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  1855, — "To  live 
in  the  city  is  one  thing,  and  to  live  a  long  way  out  of  it.  where 
nothing  is  going  on,  not  nearly  so  much  as  on  a  farm,  and  to  be 
allowed  to  go  to  the  city  only  at  stated  times,  is  quite  another." 
lint  to  many,  especially  to  those  who  had  known  only  a  city 
life  before,  the  beautiful  natural  surroundings  of  the  school 
were  among  its  chief  attractions,  and  an  ever-varying  source  of 
the  keenest  pleasure.  "There  seemed  to  be  a  charming  freedom 
and  a  really  poetic  element  in  those  days  on  the  hill-top,  with 


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such  a  boundless  view  in  ail  directions,  and  such  a  full  and 
enjoyable  liberty  in  the  inner  life  of  the  school,"  writes  one 
who  was  connected  with  the  Oread  in  the  early  fifties.  "The 
scholars  were  all  expected  to  spend  an  hour  at  least  every  day 
out  of  doors.  How  beautiful  we  thought  that  to  be  always, 
but  in  the  bright  June  days  with  the  whole  country-side  around 
us  it  was  ideal — perfect!  And  towards  Xew  Worcester, 
towards  the  wild  open  country,  we  had  no  limit  to  our  walks 
if  we  returned  in  time  for  the  next  duties  of  school.  One  may 
well  imagine  the  exquisite  sense  of  freedom  and  enjoyment 
which  this  daily  exercise  gave  to  us  young  girls." 


THE    LEDGE. 


Looking  towards  Worcester,  there  were  scattering  houses  all 
the  way  from  town,  two  large  ones  with  fine  grounds  not  so 
very  far  away  belonging  to  Air.  Allen  and  Mr.  Grout.  Early 
Oreades  tell  us  that  the  street  lamps  were  fewer  and  farther 
between,  even,  than  the  houses,  making  the  return  home  from 
evening  concerts  or  lectures  in  the  city  a  dark  and  lonesome 
one,  and  one  to  be  dreaded  by  timorous  souls. 

In  the  other  direction  it  was  all  open  country,  with  no  houses 
of  any  consequence. 

Hack  of  the  Castle  all  was  rough  and  rocky,  with  here  and 
there  a  few  old  trees.  A  little  distance  away  was  a  piece  of 
woodland,  not  belonging  to  Air.  Thayer,  containing  a  chestnut 
grove,  where  the  girls  used  to  gather  nuts.      Near  at  hand  was 


Eariy   Years  of  the  Oread  13 

the  Ledge,  well-known  to  all  Oreades  and  dear  to  many  a  one 
who  discovered  its  possibilities  as  a  place  in  which  to  spend 
pleasant  afternoons  writing  letters,  or  less  pleasant  ones  writing 
essays,  but  with  always  the  opportunity  to  rest  between  para- 
graphs and  enjoy  the  quiet  beauty  of  the  landscape.  The  ear- 
liest pupils  will  also  remember  a  large  excavation  back  of  the 
building  where  the  stone  had  been  quarried  of  which  the  Oread 
was  built.  This  was  sometimes  filled  with  water,  on  which 
the  girls  were  wont  to  go  sailing  on  make-shift  rafts — which 
were,  however,  rarely  able  to  reach  the  other  side  in  safety. 

In  front  of  the  school  was  a  broad  stretch  of  pleasant  lawn, 
adorned  by  hardly  a  tree  of  any  size,  extending  to  Main  Street. 
This  lawn  was  not  kept  clipped,  but  the  grass  was  allowed  to 
grow  until  June,  when  the  girls  are  reported  to  have  had  great 
frolics  in  the  hay  fields.  Another  pleasant  lawn  stretched  from 
Main  Street  to  the  summit  of  the  hill  opposite,  where  was  the 
Academv,  a  large  school  for  boys.  The  latter  were  often  seen 
passing  to  and  fro.  but  with  them  the  girls  had  little  to  do. 
The  Academy  was  quite  old  when  the  Oread  was  young,  and 
only  a  few  years  after  the  founding  of  the  latter  its  buildings 
were  torn  down  and  the  school  removed  to  another  part  of 
the  city.  It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  the  first  graduating 
exercises  of  the  Oread  were  held  in  Academy  Hall,  the  school 
chapel  being  too  small. 

The  school  in  general  had  little  to  do  with  the  city,  but  an 
occasional  party  was  made  up  for  a  concert,  chaperoned  by 
teachers.  The  girls  also  attended  the  Lyceum  lectures  in  town, 
where  they  had  opportunities  of  hearing  some  of  the  most 
prominent  men  of  the  day.  The  list  of  speakers  in  the  year 
1855-56  included  the  names  of  William  M.  Thackeray,  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson,  Bayard  Taylor,  George  \Y.  Curtis,  Starr 
King  and  Theodore  Parker.  The  following  extracts  from  let- 
ters written  by  one  of  the  Oreades  in  December,  1855.  and 
February,  1856,  are  interesting  as  showing  the  school-girl's 
point  of  view  :  "I  have  taken  a  ticket  to  a  course  of  ten  Lyceum 
lectures  in  the  city  hall.  The  first  was  last  Wednesday  evening 
by  W.  M.  Thackeray.  It  was  highly  interesting.  There  are 
twenty  who  go  from  here,  and  I  expect  we  shall  enjoy  the 
lectures  much,  though  I  shall  have  to  study  pretty  hard  to  get 
my  lessons  and  go.     My  studies  occupy  my  time  pretty  fully." 


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"Thursday  evening  we  went  down  to  hear  Ralph  Waldo  Emer- 
son lecture.  Was  much  pleased,  as  every  one  seemed  to  be,  yet 
no  one  had  a  very  clear  idea  as  to  the  subject,  but  his  lecture 
was  mostly  on  beauty," — an  estimate  of  Air.  Emerson  which 
I  think  a  good  many  people  would  appreciate.  The  girls 
went  into  the  city  for  church,  too.  The  church  privileges  were 
of  the  best,  and  each  pupil  was  allowed  her  choice  as  to 
denomination. 

The  clay's  routine  at  the  Oread  was  very  much  the  same  as 
in  later  years.  But  I  will  let  one  of  the  pupils  of  those  days 
describe  it  in  her  own  words.  "Breakfast  was  at  6.30  summer 
and  winter.  As  we  went  to  the  dining  room  each  carried  down 
her  oil  lamp  to  be  filled  and  carried  back  when  we  went  from 
dinner.  At  breakfast  while  the  rolls  were  coming  in  we  each 
recited  a  verse  of  Scripture.  After  breakfast  we  had  to  care 
for  our  rooms.  All  the  water  used  for  toilet  purposes  had  to 
be  carried  to  their  rooms  by  the  girls  themselves.  For  the  first 
two  or  three  years  of  the  school  it  was  brought  from  a  spring, 
half  way  down  the  hill  to  the  left.  Afterwards  we  brought  it 
from  the  dining  room.  Every  morning  before  school  began 
a  certain  time  was  set  apart  for  each  one  in  turn  of  every  two 
occupants  of  a  room  to  be  in  her  chamber  quite  alone  for  what- 
ever devotional  purpose  she  chose.  School  was  opened  at  half- 
past  eight,  and  morning  devotions  were  presided  over  by  Mr. 
Thayer.  Then  followed  recitations  and  study  periods.  At 
least  an  hour's  recreation  was  required  every  day,  and  this  was, 
as  has  been  said,  usually  taken  in  the  form  of  rambles  over  the 
country  roads  and  pastures  to  the  southwards.  An  attempt 
was  made  to  introduce  archery  about  this  time,  but  for  some 
reason  it  did  not  become  popular  and  was  soon  given  up. 
Evening  devotions  were  presided  over  by  the  Preceptress,  and 
at  this  time  the  roll  was  called  and  reports  on  conduct  made. 

"Friday  afternoon  there  were  no  study  hours,  and  if  they  bad 
permission  the  girls  might  go  down  town  on  that  day,  but  we 
were  not  encouraged  to  go  too  often.  Friday  evening  we  were 
all  invited  to  an  'at  home'  in  the  parlor,  where  we  were 
received  by  the  teachers.  We  made  a  little  change  in  our  dress, 
principally  by  unbuttoning  our  sleeves  and  basting  a  muslin 
puff  into  the  cap  of  the  sleeves.  Short  sleeves  in  winter  made 
our  evening  dress.     Music,  games,  capping  poetry  and  some- 


Early   Years  of  the  Oread  15 

times  charades  formed  the  entertainment.  Capping  poetry  was 
one  of  Mr.  Thayer's  favorite  diversions.  He  even  gave  his 
Geometry  class  practice  in  it  for  a  few  moments  every  day, 
thinking;  it  one  of  the  hest  ways  to  stimulate  the  memory. 
Someone  started  a  line  of  poetry,  chosen  at  random,  and  any- 
one who  could  think  quickest  repeated  another  line  which  must 
begin  with  the  letter  with  which  the  last  quotation  ended. 

"Saturday  there  were  no  recitations.  The  morning  was 
devoted  to  domestic  matters.  The  laundry  was  made  ready, 
and  all  who  chose  could  go  and  do  up  their  collars,  ruffles  and 
puff's.  Each  one  must  sweep  and  carefully  dust  her  own  room. 
In  the  afternoon  we  were  supposed  to  do  our  mending,  write 
letters,  etc.,  and  there  were  short  study  hours  in  the  evening." 

A  literary  society  which  was  founded  in  the  early  days  of  the 
school  and  whose  life  was  commensurate  with  its  life,  was 
called  the  Oread  Euphemia.  At  this  time  the  society  met  every 
Wednesday.  Three  of  the  teachers  were  directors,  and  the 
pupils  who  were  to  take  part  at  any  meeting,  by  reading  essays 
or  reciting  poetry,  were  appointed  by  them  at  the  meeting 
previous.  Some  of  the  subjects  of  these  essays  have  been 
handed  down  to  us.  "The  True  Reformer"  and  "The  Dignity 
of  Laughter"  are  two  of  them.  Men  of  prominence  were  some- 
times invited  to  speak  before  the  society.  Later  the  meetings 
were  held  only  once  in  two  weeks  and  were  entirely  in  the  hands 
of  the  students.  The  society  also  edited  a  periodical  called  the 
Voice,  which  was  read  at  its  regular  sessions. 

One  of  the  advantages  which  the  earliest  generation  of 
Oreades  enjoyed,  denied  to  later  comers,  was  the  personal 
instruction  of  Mr.  Thayer.  He  was  an  excellent  teacher, 
though  he  is  said  not  to  have  been  very  fond  of  teaching.  He 
insisted  on  thorough  work  and  conscientious  study,  and  soon 
made  his  pupils  ashamed  to  appear  in  class  unprepared.  He 
taught  the  necessity  of  accuracv  even  in  minor  details,  and  was 
particularly  grieved  over  the  mispronunciation  of  a  word,  espe- 
cially in  the  languages.  He  was  a  man  to  inspire  respect,  and 
at  times  seemed  stern  and  rather  unapproachable,  but  he  was 
always  found  to  be  a  sturdy  and  loyal  friend.  Though  he 
spoke  briefly,  what  he  said  was  strikingly  to  the  point.  Uncom- 
promising and  of  indomitable  will,  he  was  at  the  same  time  a 
man  exceedingly  just  and  of  wise  forbearance.     A  little  inci- 


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clcnt  will  illustrate  this.  One  moonlight  evening  during  the 
winter  of  1850-51  a  party  of  young  people  from  the  city  came 
out  to  Mount  Oread  for  a  coasting  frolic.  The}-  enjoyed  them- 
selves for  some  time,  sliding  down  the  incline  from  the  tower 
to  the  street  on  an  enormous  sled  guided  by  a  smaller  one. 
Then  they  began  to  exchange  shouts  with  the  Oreades,  who 
had  gathered  at  the  windows,  watching  the  fun  with  increasing 
interest,  and  finally  persuaded  some  of  the  bolder  ones  to  come 
out  and  join  in  the  frolic.  They  were  having  the  best  of  times 
when  suddenly  they  were  startled  by  the  ringing  of  the  bell, 
and  terrified  by  finding  it  was  Air.  Thayer  himself  who  was 
handling"  it  so  vigorously.  Without  a  word  of  reproof  Air. 
Thaver  kindly  said  he  realized  how  great  was  the  temptation, 
but  knowing  it  to  be  dangerous  sport  on  account  of  the  smooth- 
ness of  the  hill,  could  not  permit  them  to  engage  in  it.  They 
were  convinced  then  of  his  forbearance,  and  later,  when  an 
accident  occurred  whereby  one  of  the  party  was  seriously  hurt, 
of  his  superior  wisdom. 

Mr.  Thayer's  principalship  came  at  a  time  when  the  anti- 
slavery  agitation  was  at  its  height,  and  his  intense  interest  in 
this  movement,  and  especially  his  efforts  to  make  Kansas  a 
free  state,  aroused  much  enthusiasm  among  his  pupils,  who 
naturally  sympathized  with  his  views.  The  following  is  an 
interesting  extract  from  a  school-girl's  letter  to  a  friend,  dated 
Februarv  3.  1856, — "Since  tea  I  have  been  in  Sophie  Arms' 
room.  We  have  been  talking  on  a  variety  of  subjects.  One 
of  them  was  slavery.  Sophie  is  strong  on  anti-slavery.  She 
says  she  wishes  she  were  a  man."  On  January  21  of  the  same 
\ear  she  had  written,  "I  have  this  week  to  write  an  address  to 
the  slaves  inciting  them  to  insurrection.  You  do  not  know 
how  the  thought  of  it  troubles  me.  I  wish  every  slave  in 
tlie  land  would  arise  and  demand  his  freedom.  Does  it  not 
seem  incredible  that  in  this  age  and  this  free  land  human  beings 
can  hold  their  fellow  men  in  bondage."'"  Again  on  February 
24  she  wrote,  "What  do  you  think  of  President  Buchanan's 
Proclamation?  Mr.  Thayer  is  about  sending  a  large  number 
of  guns  into  Kansas.  Do  you  not  think  there  will  be  a  civil 
war  before  long?  It  .seems  to  me  there  will  be,  and  1  think 
war  is  preferable  to  the  present  state-  of  affairs.  I  wish  that 
Freedom  might  peaceably  gain  the  victory,  but  I  do  not  believe 


Early  Years  of  the  Oread  17 

she  ever  will."     When  Mr.  Thayer  was  elected  to  Congress  in 
1857  the  building  was  illuminated  with  candles  at  every  window. 

"Those  were  stirring  times  for  the  country,  and  the  young  women  of 
the  Oread  lived  right  at  the  heart  of  history.  Eli  Thayer  was  a  member 
of  the  legislature,  having  been  elected  on  an  anti-slavery  ticket.  He 
conceived  a  plan  for  preventing  the  further  extension  of  slavery  at  a 
time  when  the  political  leaders  of  the  North,  on  account  of  the  passage 
of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill,  were  in  despair  of  rendering  any  effectual 
opposition  to  its  extension ;  and  through  the  New  England  emigrant 
company  so  crystallized  the  opposition  to  slavery,  and  so  efficiently 
organized  that  opposition,  that  Kansas  became  a  free  state,  and  all  the 
resulting  events,  which  are  so  well  known,  followed.  There  was  then 
living  in  Worcester  a  Unitarian  clergyman  who  has  since  won  world- 
wide renown;  1  refer  to  the  Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale.  He  was  of 
the  utmost  assistance  to  the  great  work,  and  gave  freely  of  his  time 
and  counsel  in  furthering  it.  He  was  a  familiar  figure  on  Oread  hill 
during  those  days  when  he  rode  over  on  horseback  to  his  frequent  con- 
ferences with  Air.  Thayer. 

"There  also  came  to  the  Oread  during  those  times,  the  agents  of  the 
Emigrant  Aid  Company,  Charles  Branscomb,  who  led  many  companies 
to  Kansas,  and  Charles  Robinson,  the  first  governor  of  Kansas,  when  it 
became  a  state,  to  whose  sagacity  and  patience,  more  than  to  any  other 
man's  in  Kansas,  was  due  the  successful  issue  of  the  contest.  The 
president  of  the  company,  and  one  of  its  strongest  financial  backers, 
John  Carter  Brown  of  Providence,  was  also  an  occasional  visitor  at 
the  Oread.  Most  of  these  were  men  whose  names  are  now  historic,  but 
it  is  probable  that  few  or  none  of  the  young  college  girls  thought  then 
of  the  part  which  they  were  playing  in  the  great  drama  of  our  country. 
Naturally  they  would  be  more  interested  in  the  part  which  they  them- 
selves took  in  making  waterproof  overcoats  for  the  Stubs,  a  company 
which  the  Emigrant  Aid  Company  sent  to  Kansas.  One  of  the  Stubs 
visited  us  many  years  after,  when  he  was  a  successful  mine  operator, 
and  spoke  with  pleasure  of  his  overcoat  with  the  inevitable  letter  in 
the  pocket.  Another  of  the  Stubs  was  later  congressman  from  Kansas, 
and  was  instrumental  in  securing  the  establishment  of  the  Indian  school 
at  Lawrence,  named  in  his  honor  Haskell  Institute."  * 

It  was  Air.  Thayer's  idea  that  girls  could  equal  any  college 
students  of  the  other  sex  in  intellectual  achievement  if  they 
had  the  same  advantages.  This  was  an  unusual  view  in  those 
early  days,  but  his  confidence  in  their  ability  stimulated  his 
pupils  to  a  high  standard  of  scholarship.  He  was  very  proud 
of  his  fine  scholars,  and  took  special  satisfaction  in  the  classes 

*  From    an    address    given    at   the    Reunion    of   the    Oread    Collegiate 
Institute   Association,   October  14,   1904,  by  John   Alden  Thayer,  son  of 
the  founder  of  the  Oread. 
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18  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

in  Mathematics  and  the  Languages.  The  Latin  and  French 
classes  were  often  conducted  entirely  in  those  languages.  At 
one  time  an  original  French  play  was  given  by  the  members  of 
the  French  classes,  and  Latin  essays  were  frequently  written. 
At  the  end  of  each  term  were  examinations,  attended  by  a 
regular  board  of  examiners,  including  many  of  the  Worcester 
ministers  and  other  citizens,  at  which  Air.  Thayer  took  much 
pride  in  the  proficiency  which  his  pupils  showed  in  speaking 
and  writing  the  different  languages.  At  the  graduating  exer- 
cises of  the  class  of  1855  each  of  the  three  graduates  presented 
a  Latin  essay,  in  addition  to  her  graduation  essay,  which  was 
in  English.  At  the  Commencement  in  1856  four  of  the  five 
graduates  read  French  essays  and  the  other,  the  Valedictorian, 
presented  one  in  Latin,  in  addition  to  their  graduation  essays 
in  English.  Besides  these,  on  the  same  occasion,  an  Italian 
essay  and  one  in  German  were  read  by  two  of  the  undergrad- 
uates. Air.  Thayer  also  addressed  the  graduates  in  Latin  when 
he  presented  the  diplomas. 

Diplomas  of  two  grades  were  given,  that  of  Oreas  Erudita 
and  that  of  Oreade  Polie.  The  former  was  written  in  Latin 
and  the  latter  in  French.  The  first  was  given  on  the  completion 
of  the  regular  course  of  study,  which  included  Latin  and  higher 
Mathematics.  The  second  was  given  to  those  pupils  who  had 
not  taken  these  more  difficult  subjects  but  had  substituted 
therefor  advanced  work  in  Modern  Languages  and  courses  in 
Painting,  Drawing  and  Music.  It  is  worthy  of  note  that  the 
majority  of  diplomas  given  throughout  the  life  of  the  school 
were  of  the  degree  Oreas  Erudita. 

To  illustrate  the  high  standard  of  attainments  and  scholar- 
ship which  Mr.  Thayer  demanded  of  his  graduates,  it  is  only 
necessary  to  read  the  list  of  requirements  for  the  degree  of 
Oreas  Erudita.  The  Collegiate  Course  covered  four  years,  and 
was  preceded  by  an  Academic  Course,  which  would  par- 
tially correspond  to  our  first  two  years  in  the  High  School. 
The  studies  in  the  Academic  Course  were  Beginning  Latin 
and  Caesar  or  Nepos,  Ancient  History,  Geography  and  Mythol- 
ogy, Higher  Arithmetic  and  First-year  Algebra,  and  Botany — 
with  some  English  Grammar,  Elocution,  Geography  and  Com- 
position. In  the  four  years  of  the  Collegiate  Course  the  pupils 
were  required   to  take   Vergil,   Cicero,    Horace  and   Tacitus  or 


Early   Years  of  the  Oread  19 

Livy,  Mathematics  as  far  as  Calculus,  French  and  ( ierman. 
Natural  Philosophy,  Universal  History,  Chemistry,  Geology, 
Astronomy,  Mental  Philosophy,  Ethics,  Evidences  of  Chris- 
tianity, Rhetoric,  and  English  Literature.  Greek  was  optional 
and  was  taken  by  a  few  students  only.  Probably  there  was  no 
college  in  the  country  then  that  offered  better  opportunities  in 
[Modern  Languages,  for  in  addition  to  French  and  German 
taught  by  native  teachers,  optional  courses  were  offered  also  in 
Italian  and   Spanish. 

It  was  only  during  the  first  two  or  three  years  of  the  school's 
existence  that  Air.  Thayer  took  an  active  part  in  the  class-room. 
During  that  time  he  taught  Latin  and  Mathematics  in  the  higher 
classes.  But  he  had  many  outside  interests,  and  after  the  Oread 
had  become  well  established  and  was  in  the  hands  of  competent 
teachers,  he  gave  up  his  classes,  though  his  influence  did  not 
cease  to  strongly  pervade  the  school.  For  some  time  he  con- 
tinued to  conduct  morning  devotions,  and  he  was  often  present 
at  the  Friday  evening  social  gatherings,  where  he  became 
acquainted  with  the  pupils.  His  name  remained  in  the  cata- 
logues as  Principal  of  the  school  until  1857.  Mr.  Francis 
Fowler  then  had  charge  of  the  school  for  one  term.  After  this 
Miss  Dodge,  who  had  for  four  years  been  Preceptress,  became 
Acting  Principal.  She  held  this  position  until  1859,  when  the 
school  passed  into  the  hands  of  Dr.  Pattison. 


OREAD  TEACHERS  FROM  1849  TO  18J9 


Since  the  existing  records  of  the  first  ten  years  of  the  school 
are  very  incomplete,  a  list  of  the  teachers  of  those  days  contain- 
ing no  mistakes  and  no  omissions  cannot  be  guaranteed.  The 
following  has  been  compiled  from  the  few  catalogues  in  the 
possession  of  the  editors,  and  from  personal  recollections  of  the 
pupils  of  that  time.  Each  section  is  arranged  in  chronological 
order.  Biographical  accounts  will  be  found  on  the  pages  indi- 
cated. Biographies  of  those  who  were  pupils  at  the  Oread 
before  becoming  teachers  there,  are  included  among  the 
"Biographies  of  Pupils."  A  few  of  the  teachers  the  editors 
have  been  unable  to  trace.  Names  of  such  are  printed  in 
italics. 

PRECEPTRESSES. 
1849-50.     Miss  Rebecca  Capron,  p.  26. 
1850-51.      Miss  Frances  H.  Clark,  p.  27. 
1851.  Mrs.  Rachel  B.  Poole,  p.  35. 

1852-53.     Mrs.  Alma  E.  Curtis,  p.  28. 
1S53— 59.      Miss  Hannah  P.  Dodge,  p.  30. 

LATIN    AND    MODERN    LANGUAGES.  ENGLISH     BRANCHES. 

Mr.  Eli  Thayer,  Latin p.     6  Miss  Frances  H.  Clark p 

Mons.  Mailly,  French,  1850-51.  Miss  Cornelia  A.  Brigham p 

Fraulein  F.  W.  Vagt,  German  .  .p.  37  Miss  Bigelow p 

Mons.  Jean  S.   Meyers,   Modern  Miss  J.  Chase,  1851-52. 

Languages,  /S51-52.  Miss  Mary  J.  Clark p 

Mons.  F.  C.  Misner p.  34  Miss  Minerva  dishing p 

.!/,<//..  //.    //'.  Carstens,  7857-50.  Miss  Elizabeth  Arms p 


MATHEMATICS. 

Mr.  Eli  Thayer p.       6 

Miss  Sarah  J.   Rice   p.  122 

Miss  Malvina  Gove p.    94 

Miss  II.  I'.  Dodge p.     30 


Miss  Rosalinda  II.  Palmer p 

Miss  Lydia  Bladder p 

Miss  /.miii  Gilbert,  1857. 


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26 

74 
29 
23 
43 

4i 


RHETORIC    AMi    ENGLISH    LITERATURE. 

Miss  Juliet  Warner p.  130 

Mr.  George  N.  Webber p.     37 

Mr.   Hamilton  B.  Staples p.     36 

logic  and  philosophy.  Miss  Elizabeth  Arms p.    23 

Mr.  C.  X.  Webber p.  37    Miss  Louisa  />.  Howell,  1857-58. 

M  iss  II.  I'.  Dodge p.  30    Miss  Marcy  Foster p.    31 


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PAINTING    AND    DRAWING. 
Mr.  Henry  Woodward,  iSjo-ji. 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Grosvenor p.  33 

Miss  Bass,  /Sjj-jj. 

Mrs.  Man-  K.  Gove p.  32 

Miss  Eliza  A.  Graves p.  33 

mush  . 

Miss  Rebecca  Capron p.  26 

Mr.  B.  D.  Allen p.  22 

Mr.  Albert  Allen p.  22 

Miss  Harriet  E.  Bemis p.  62 

ELOCUTION. 

Rev.  Mr.   Bent p.  25 

Prof.  J.  W.  Taverner p.  37 


PENMANSHIP. 

Mr.  E.  T.  Martin  p.  34 

PRIMARY    TEACHERS. 
Miss  Elizabeth  D.   Bugbee.  . .  .p.     67 

Miss  K.  C  Mcintosh p.  no 

Miss  Julia  Thayer p.  129 

REGISTRARS. 

Miss  Rosalinda  H.  Palmer p.  43 

Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Ayer p.  51 

MATRONS. 

Mrs.   Thorndike,  iSjj  and  1856. 
Miss  Emily  11'.  Spaulding,  jSj;j. 
Mrs.  Dauble,  1858-60 p.  29 


A    GROUP    OF    OREAD    TEACHERS    AND    PUPILS    IN     l8;2. 


ADELPHIA    POWERS — MALVINA    GOVE — JENNY    WHEELOCK. 
MRS.    CURTIS — SARAH     RICE — MISS    VAGT. 


Oread  Collegiate  Institute 


BIOGRAPHIES    OF    TEACHERS 


Albert  Salisbury  Allen,  son  of  Alvan  and  Lucy  (Salis- 
bury) Allen,  was  born  in  Sturbridge,  Mass.,  in  the  year  1828. 
He  came  to  Worcester  with  his  parents  in  1836,  residing  there 

until  his  death  in  1895.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the 
city,  and  his  musical  studies  were 
prosecuted  in  both  Worcester  and 
Boston.  He  became  prominent  as 
an  organist,  choir-master,  and  theo- 
rist, and  had  a  large  number  of 
pupils  in  vocal  music,  among  whom 
are  to  be  numbered  many  of  the 
earlier  students  of  the  Oread  under 
Miss  Dodge's  administration.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  having  seen  active 
service  in  the  Virginia  campaigns  in 
the  Civil  War. 
On  April  18,  1850,  Mr.  Allen  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza  A. 
Cole  of  Boston,  who  was  also  possessed  of  musical  gifts,  and 
who  sometimes  sang  for  the  students  and  invited  guests  at  enter- 
tainments at  the  Oread.  She  was  later  also  an  instructor  in 
vocal  music  there,  under  Dr.  Shepardson  and  Mr.  Greene. 

Their  sons,  Charles  Albert  and  Frank  Lincoln,  are  well- 
known  citizens  of  Worcester  at  the  present  time,  the  former 
being  a  civil  engineer  and  the  latter  a  contractor. 


Benjamin  Dwight  Allen  was  born  in  Sturbridge,  Mass., 
February  16,  1831,  his  parents  being  Alvan  and  Lucy  (Salis- 
bury) Allen,  both  natives  of  Massachusetts.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  and  under  private  tutors,  his  musical 
studies  being  carried  on  under  Henry  C.  Timm  of  New  York, 
and  Dresel  and  Satter  of  Boston. 

Mr.  Allen  taught  music  at  the  (  >read  from  the  early  years 
of  the  school  until  the  close  of  Dr.  Pattison's  administration  in 
1864,  and  he  continued  teaching  in  Worcester  until  he  left  that 


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city  in  1894.  During  this  period  he  taught  also  in  Boston  at 
the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  and  lectured  at 
Boston  University,  and  in  various  cities  of  New  England.  Ik- 
was  a  member  of  the  Harvard  Musi- 
cal Association,  Organist  of  Union 
Church,  Worcester,  for  thirty-seven 
years,  and  was  also  connected  with 
the  Board  of  Government  of  Wor- 
cester. At  the  Musical  Festivals 
in  that  city  he  acted  as  organist, 
pianist,  and  conductor,  in  connec- 
tion with  Carl  Zerrahn  and  others. 
In  1894  Mr.  Allen  became  Pro- 
fessor of  Music  in  Beloit  College, 
Beloit,  Wise,  and  held  the  profes- 
sorship for  eight  years. 

At  the  present  time  he  is  Organ- 
ist and  Choir  Master  at  Manhattan  Congregational  Church, 
New  York,  and  Assistant  in  the  Musical  Department  of  The 
Teachers'  College,  Columbia  University.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Guild  of  Organists,  also  of  the  Clef  Club.  He 
has  written  musical  compositions, 
songs,  pieces  for  the  piano  and 
organ,  and  anthems  for  church  use 
(mostly  manuscripts). 

Mr.  Allen  was  married  August 
18,  1857,  to  Miss  Eliza  Fox  White 
of  Worcester,  who  died  August  18. 
1894.  Miss  White  had  been  a  stu- 
dent at  the  Oread  in  the  class  of 
1856  with  high  rank  in  scholarship, 
but  was  obliged,  on  account  of  ill 
health,  to  leave  before  graduation. 
Professor  Allen's  address  is  1230 
Amsterdam  Ave.,  Xew  York  City. 


Elizabeth  Grout  Arms  was  born  at  Deerfield,  Mass..  June 
1,  1830,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October  29,  1881.  Her 
father  was  Aaron  Arms  of  Deerfield.  where  his  ancestors  had 
lived  since  1698,  upon  a  farm  purchased  and  occupied  by  the 


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original  settler,  William  Arms.  Aaron  Arms  was  graduated 
at  Yale  College  in  1813,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  there 
in  1 818.  He  chose  the  profession  of  the  Law,  which  he  prac- 
ticed until  his  death,  April  11, 
1849.  His  second  wife,  and  the 
mother  of  his  three  children,  was 
Eliza  Hapgood  of  Petersham,  Mass., 
daughter  of  Hon.  Hutchins  and 
Betsy  (Grout)  Hapgood.  Eliza 
Hapgood  Arms  died  September  25, 
1833,  leaving  her  son  and  two  little 
daughters  to  be  brought  up  by  her 
brother,  Seth  Hapgood  of  Peters- 
ham. 

Miss  Arms  accompanied  her 
friend  Miss  Dodge  from  Town- 
send  Seminarv,  where  she  had  been 

MISS  ARMS  AND  MISS  DODGE.  _ 

teaching,  to  the  Oread,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1853,  and  taught  English  at  that  institution  until  July, 
1857.  Her  career  as  a  teacher,  though  brief,  was  most  suc- 
cessful. She  possessed  a  clear  intelligence,  united  with  a 
sympathetic  nature,  and  was  universally  beloved. 

She  was  married  October  1,  1857,  to  Rev.  Heman  Lincoln 
Wayland,  then  pastor  of  the  Main  Street  Baptist  Church  in 
Worcester.  In  1861  Mr.  Wayland  enlisted  as  Chaplain  in  the 
Seventh  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  with  which  regi- 
ment he  was  connected  until  1864.  Mrs.  Wayland  was  with 
her  husband  in  the  South  for  some  time,  greatly  endearing  her- 
self to  many  of  the  soldiers  by  her  affectionate  interest  in  their 
welfare. 

In  1864  Mr.  Wayland  taught  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  going  from 
there  in  1865  to  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  where  he  became  Professor 
of  Rhetoric  and  Logic  in  the  College.  In  1869  he  received 
the  degree  of  D.D.  from  Brown  University,  and  in  1870  he 
accepted  the  position  of  President  of  a  small  college  at  Franklin, 
Ind.,  where  he  remained  until  1872,  when  he  assumed  the  editor- 
ship of  the  National  Baptist  in  Philadelphia,  which  city  he  made 
his  home  until  his  death,  November  7,  1898. 

During  these  years  Dr.  Wayland  made  his  broad  and  kindly 
influence  felt  in  many  different  ways,  and  was  called  upon  to 


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assume,  at  various  times,  a  number  of  responsible  positions. 
He  was  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Missionary 
Society,  the  Philadelphia  Ministers'  Conference,  the  New 
England  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  American  Social 
Science  Association.  He  was  author  of  a  "Life  of  Charles 
H.  Spurgeon,"  and  also,  in  connection  with  his  brother,  Dean 
Wayland  of  the  Yale  Law  School,  of  the  "Memorials  of  the 
Life  and  Labors  of  Francis  Wayland,  D.D.,  President  of 
Brown  University."  He  contributed  numerous  articles  to 
leading  periodicals  on  a  great  variety  of  subjects,  and  made 
frequent  addresses,  several  of  which  were  afterwards  pub- 
lished. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wayland  had  two  children,  Francis  Lincoln 
Wayland,  now  a  lawyer  in  Philadelphia,  born  in  Worcester, 
Mass.,  September  1,  1858,  and  Fanny  Hapgood  Wayland,  born 
in  Providence,  R.  I.,  April  12,  1864.  The  former  married, 
December  2,  1885,  Lillian  Heberton  Craige  of  Philadelphia. 
They  have  one  child,  Cicely  Wayland,  born  December  27, 
1888.  Fanny  H.  Wayland  was  married  November  19,  1885,  to 
Professor  Frederick  WTeIls  Williams  of  Yale  University.  They 
have  two  children,  Wayland  Wells,  born  August  16,  1888,  and 
Elizabeth,  born  January   12,   1897. 

At  this  late  day  it  is,  unfortunately,  not  possible  to  enu- 
merate accurately  the  different  interests, — charitable  and  lit- 
erary,— with  which  Mrs.  Wayland  was  connected  during  the 
twenty-four  years  of  her  happy  married  life.  She  was  closely 
identified  with  her  husband  in  all  that  he  accomplished,  stimu- 
lating and  encouraging  him  by  her  intelligent  counsel  and 
sympathy.  Possessing,  as  she  undoubtedly  did,  marked  intel- 
lectual ability,  the  gradual  merging  of  all  personal  ambition, 
in  an  eager  desire  to  further  in  every  way  possible  the  best 
advancement  of  her  family,  is  but  a  single  instance  of  the  simple 
beauty  and  unselfishness  of  her  character. 

Rev.  Mr.  Bent  taught  Elocution  at  the  Oread  in  the  very 
early  fifties.  He  afterwards  established  a  school  for  boys  in 
the  Salisbury  Mansion  in  Worcester,  which  continued  for  some 
vears. 


26  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

Miss  Bigelow  came  to  the  Oread  as  a  teacher  in  185 1 
from  her  home  in  Leicester,  Mass.,  and  taught  probably  until 
Mrs.  Curtis  took  charge  of  the  school  in  1852. 

She  died  in  Leicester  many  years  ago. 

Cornelia  A.  Brig-ham,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Susannah 
(Baylies)  Brigham,  was  born  at  Grafton,  Mass.,  November  17, 
1823.  Her  father  was  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Prentice) 
Brigham,  and  great-grandson  of  Capt.  Samuel  Brigham  of 
Marlborough.  Susannah  Baylies  was  daughter  of  Nicholas 
and  Abigail   (Wood)   Baylies  of  Uxbridge. 

Miss  Brigham  was  Assistant  in  English  Branches  at  the 
Oread  in  1850-51. 

July  5,  i860,  she  was  married  to  Calvin  Taft,  a  cotton 
broker. 

Address :  Mrs.  Calvin  Taft,  8  Trowbridge  Road,  Worcester, 
Mass. 

Rebecca  Capron  was  born  in  Millville,  Mass.,  in  1820,  and 
died  there  in  1871. 

When  the  Oread  was  founded  by  Mr.  Thayer,  her  brother- 
in-law,  she  was  the  first  lady  to  teach  in  the  school,  becoming, 

in  1849,  its  Preceptress, 
and  continuing  in  this 
office  for  one  year.  Her 
department  was  English, 
until  1850,  after  which 
time  she  taught  Music 
only. 

After  leaving  the  Oread, 
in  1853,  Miss  Capron  went 
to  Marion,  Ala.,  as  Pre- 
ceptress in  Rev.  Mr. 
Jewett's  school.  When  her 
sister  and  her  husband  went  to  Ceredo,  a  place  in  West  Virginia 
colonized  by  Mr.  Thayer  before  the  Civil  War,  she  accompanied 
1  hem  and  taught  there  until  the  outbreak  of  the  war  drove  them 
all  back  to  New  England.  Later,  when  the  same  sister  went 
with  her  husband  to  Washington,  1).  C,  to  live,  Miss  Capron 


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went  also,  and  taught  in  the  contraband  schools  in  that  city. 
She  spent  the  last  part  of  her  life  in  Millville  with  her  parents. 

Her  superior  character  was  in  harmony  with  the  beauty 
and  nobility  of  her  personal  appearance.  She  was  eminently 
social.  Greatly  beloved  during  her  lifetime,  by  all  who  knew 
her,  she  is  still  remembered  with  affectionate  admiration,  by 
surviving"  friends  and  relatives. 


Frances  Hannah  Clark   was    connected    with    the    ( )read 
Institute   as    Preceptress   during   the   year    1850-51.     She    was 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  and   Hannah    (Fellows)    Clark,   and 
was  born  in  Upper  Gilmanton  (now 
Belmont),    N.    H.,    on    March    25, 
1827.     She  was  a  pupil  in  Charles- 
town  Seminary,  from  which  she  was 
graduated  in  1846. 

As  Preceptress  at  the  Oread,  Miss 
Clark  succeeded  Miss  Capron,  whose 
time  was  now  devoted  wholly  to 
the  department  of  Music.  When 
she  came  to  the  Oread  the  two 
towers  had  been  completed,  and 
before  she  left  in  185 1,  they  were 
connected  by  the  foundation  walls 
of    the    intervening    building,    over 

which  the  pupils  crossed  in  going  to  and  from  the  dining  room, 
which  was  still  situated  in  the  North  Tower.  The  number  of 
boarding-pupils  had  increased  (according  to  one  of  them  n>>w 
living),  to  twenty-two.  The  number  was  sufficiently  large  to 
give  Miss  Clark  considerable  responsibility  when  only  in  her 
twenty-fourth  year.  What  her  influence  was  on  these  young- 
girls  is  shown  in  an  account  written  by  one  of  them,  who  now  in 
her  mature  years  thus  looks  back  upon  this  young  teacher 
whose  earthly  life  ended  forty-six  years  ago.  "Well  do  I 
remember  that  very  superior  lady,  earnest,  devoted  and  faithful, 
of  quiet  dignity,  yet  so  cheerfully  inspiring  to  her  pupils  ;  a 
devoted  Christian  withal,  whose  prayers  seemed  to  lift  one 
to  the  very  gate  of  Heaven." 

Her  stay  at  the  Oread  was  short.     She  left  in  1851,  and  soon 
accepted  a  position  in  a  smaller  school,  the  Willow  Glen  Board- 


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ing  School,  kept  by  Rev.  Mr.  Gannett,  in  West  Cambridge, 
Mass.  Here  she  remained  three  years.  On  October  25,  1854, 
she  was  married  to  William  F.  Swain,  also  a  native  of  Gilman- 
ton,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College,  residing  in  Columbia, 
Texas,  who  was  at  that  time  Editor  of  the  Texas  Democrat. 

After  her  marriage  she  taught  for  a  short  time.  She  died 
November  27,  1858,  a  few  days  after  the  birth  of  an  infant 
daughter. 

A  few  years  later  Mr.  Swain  removed  to  Houston,  where  a 
valuable  official  position  in  the  Masonic  Fraternity  was  accorded 
him,  which  he  kept  almost  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1902. 

Mrs.  Alma  E.  Curtis,  nee  Hnrd,  a  friend  and  connection 
of  the  Abbotts,  a  family  of  authors  and  scholars  well-known  in 
the  earlv  davs  of  the  nineteenth  century,  came  to  the  Oread  as 


Preceptress  in  January,  1852,  having  been  for  several  years  an 
Assistant  to  Mrs.  Abbott  at  the  Spingler  Institute,  a  collegiate 
school  for  young  ladies  founded  by  Rev.  Gorham  Abbott  in 
New  York  City.  She  remained  a  year  and  a  half  at  the  Oread 
as  Assistant  to  Mr.  Thayer  in  the  general  supervision  of  the 
school.  After  Mr.  Thayer  was  elected  to  the  State  Legis- 
lature great  responsibility  was  thrown  upon  Mrs.  Curtis  in  his 
absence.  Her  executive  ability,  her  dignity  and  grace,  fitted 
her  admirably  for  the  position.  While  she  kept  the  regimen 
of  the  school  up  to  the  high  standard  ordained  by  Mr.  Thayer, 


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she  added  many  pleasant  embellishments  to  the  daily  routine, 
making  the  school  a  happy  home  and  winning  the  love  of  all 
its  pupils. 

At  the  end  of  two  years  Mrs.  Curtis  returned  to  the  Spingler 
Institute,  where  she  remained  for  several  years.  In  1867  she 
became  the  wife  of  Air.  Osborn  Howes,  an  eminent  merchant 
and  ship-owner  of  Boston,  father  of  Hannah  and  Abbie  Howes, 
pupils  at  the  Oread.  Besides  these  two  there  were  seven  other 
children,  all  but  one  of  whom  have  since  been  established  in 
homes  of  their  own.  Her  later  life  has  brought  her  many 
opportunities  of  travel  in  this  country  and  in  Europe.  In  1893 
Air.  Howes  died,  and  later  Hannah  and  Abbie. 

With  all  her  full  domestic  life  Airs.  Howes  has  been  active 
in  the  charitable  organizations  of  Trinity  Church  and  of  Boston. 
Despite  advancing  years  she  is  blessed  with  good  health  and  is 
able  to  enjoy  not  only  the  dear  memories  of  the  past,  but  the 
varied  interests  of  the  present. 

Address:  Airs.  Alma  E.  Howes,  416  Marlborough,  St.,  Bos- 
ton, Alass. 

Minerva  Cushing  taught  for  a  few  months  at  the  Oread 
when  Airs.  Curtis  was  Preceptress.  She  afterwards  married 
Air.  Alvah  Crocker,  and  her  present  address  is  325  Alain  St.. 
Fitchburg,  Alass. 

Mrs.  Mary  Sophia  Shaw  Dauble  was  the  daughter  of 
Enoch  and  Alar}'  (  Upham)  Shaw,  and  was  born  at  Belcher- 
town,  Alass.,  April  21,  1826,  and  died  Alay  19,  1887.  In  1850 
she  went  to  Assam,  India,  where  she  had  a  short,  but  extremely 
interesting  and  eventful  life  as  missionary,  and  became  the 
wife  of  Gottlieb  Dauble.  She  came  to  the  Oread  as  Alatron 
during  the  year  1858,  remaining  there  for  two  years.  She 
was  afterwards,  for  a  little  while.  Alatron  at  the  Industrial 
School  in  Dorchester,  Alass.  On  November  25,  1861,  she  was 
married  to  Air.  John  W.  Philbrick  of  AVaterville,  Ale.,  father 
of  Lizzie  Philbrick,  an  Oread  pupil  under  Dr.  Pattison. 

She  was  most  influential,  useful  and  beloved  in  church  and 
community,  being  one  of  the  pioneers  in  establishing  the 
Woman's  Foreign  Alissionarv  Circle  in  Maine. 


30  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

Hannah  Perkins  Dodge  occupied  the  position  of  Precep- 
tress at  the  Oread  from  September,  1853,  until  January,  1857, 
and  was  Acting  Principal  of  the  school  from  that  time  till 
1859. 

Nature  had  generously  endowed  Miss  Dodge  with  peculiarly 
fitting  qualifications  for  a  teacher,  and  these  she  studiously 
cultivated  during  her  girlhood.     She  inherited  from  her  parents, 

Barnabas  and  Sarah  Dodge, 

■j      and   from  her  ancestors,  at 

least  three  of  whom  served 

E»  ^  M~>  .  tijt  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 

the  elements  of  a  strong  and 

:  m  vigorous  character.    She  was 

■&    "i"'-l  born     ni     Xorth     Littleton, 

fcgjjjiBi  Mass.,    February    16,    1821, 

&tov|  and    was   brought    up   as   a 

farmer's    daughter.      When 

miss  dodge  and  miss  arms.  seventeen  years  of  age,  she 

taught  her  first  school, 
receiving  as  compensation  one  dollar  a  week  and  her  board. 

Evidences  of  the  thoroughness  of  her  mental  equipment  for 
her  future  career,  even  to  smallest  particulars,  are  found  in  the 
verses  which  she  wrote  in  early  life,  having  in  view  for  herself 
a  well-rounded  intellectual  development.  The  power  of  versi- 
fying she  occasionally  made  use  of  in  after  years,  as  she  did 
also  of  her  talent  for  elocution,  for  she  was  a  fine  reader. 

She  graduated  from  Townsend  Female  Seminary  in  1843, 
and  was  soon  called  to  become  a  teacher  there.  In  [846,  when 
but  twenty-five  years  of  age,  she  was  chosen  Principal  of  the 
school,  occupying  this  position  for  seven  years. 

Her  experience  here  prepared  the  way  for  her  success  in  the 
still  more  important  position  of  Preceptress  at  the  Oread. 

Before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  this  office,  sbe  was  inci- 
dentally called  to  act  for  a  few  months  as  substitute  in  the 
Girls'  High  and  Normal  School  in  Boston.  So  acceptably  did 
sbe  fulfil  her  duties  there  that  an  effort  was  made  to  Secure 
her  permanent  services  in  the  school.  But  Mr.  Thayer  under- 
stood too  well  the  interests  of  his  own  institution  to  release  her. 
The  school,  through  Iter  instrumentality,  was  raised  to  a  high 
degree  of  excellence  during  the  period  of  six  years  when  she 


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31 


was  at  its  head.  She  herself  taught  classes  in  Moral  Philoso- 
phy and  Mathematics,  in  a  manner  so  clear  and  forceful  that 
mi  lesson  failed  to  make  a  distinct  impression  upon  the  minds 
of  her  pupils. 

In  the  summer  of  1859  ^fiss  Dodge  closed  her  connection  with 
the  (  >read,  and  erossed  the  ocean  with  a  friend  to  spend  a  year 
in  Europe.  There  she  studied  the  modern  European  languages, 
and  pursued  the  study  and  practice  of  art  under  proficient 
masters. 

In  the  autumn  of  1861,  that  first  year  of  the  Civil  War.  and  a 
most  hazardous  period  for  the  in- 
auguration of  any  new  enterprise, 
she  opened  her  school  for  young 
ladies  at  Codman  Hill,  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  to  which  some  of  her  former 
Oread  pupils  followed  her.  Under 
her  administration  Codman  Hill  en- 
joyed a  prosperous  life  of  five  years. 
In  1868  Miss  Dodge  accepted  the 
office  of  Lady  Principal  in  Kala- 
mazoo College.  Michigan,  where  she 
remained  for  two  years.  From  1874 
to  1877  she  was  Lady  Principal  at 
Colby  Academy,  Xew  London,  N.  H. 

Then  her  honorable  and  useful  career  as  teacher  for  forty 
years  came  to  a  close,  and  she  sought  a  quiet  retreat  in  her 
native  town,  spending  there  the  last  eighteen  years  of  her  life. 
There  she  took  delight  in  devoting  her  energies  to  the  good  of 
her  fellow  townspeople,  accepting  at  their  solicitation  various 
positions  of  trust  in  the  town,  and  enjoying  their  sincere  esteem 
and  affection.  It  was  a  fitting  close  to  a  most  useful  life.  She 
died  in  Littleton,  her  native  town,  surrounded  by  those  who 
delighted  to  do  her  honor,  on  January   11,    1896.* 


Marcy  Foster,  daughter  of  Franklin  and  Marcy  (Hunt- 
ing) Foster,  was  born  in  Nashua,  N.  II..  September  5.  1838. 
Her  parents  were  both  of  English  descent,  and  long  resident  in 
southern  Xew  Hampshire  and  northern  Massachusetts. 

*  For  many  of  the  facts  in  this  sketch  the  writer  is  indehted  to  "A 
Teacher's  Message — A  Memorial  of  Hannah  Perkins  Dodge."  by  Rev. 
William  J.  Cloues,  published  by  Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  Boston,  in   1896. 


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She  came  to  the  Oread  as  teacher  of  English  Literature  in 
September,  1858,  and  left  in  July,  1859.  She  taught  for  three 
or  four  years  in  the  Eliot  Grammar  School  in  Boston,  and  then 
for  one  year,  1867-68,  took  charge  of  the  office  work  and 
evening  classes  of  the  Boston  Young  Women's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation. 

On  December  1,  1869,  she  was  married  to  Ithamar  W.  Beard 
of  Lowell,  Mass.  Mr.  Beard  practiced  law  until  1873,  when 
he  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  His  first 
parish  was  in  South  Groveland,  Mass.,  his  second  in  Dover, 
N.  H.  He  is  now  Chaplain  of  the  New  York  Almshouse  on 
Blackwell's  Island.     Their  children  reside  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  Beard  was  an  interested  member  of  the  Woman's 
Literary  Club  in  Dover  for  many  years.  She  writes :  "What- 
ever benevolent  work  I  have  done  since  my  marriage  has  been 
in  connection  with  my  husband's  work  as  clergyman."  At 
present  she  is  especially  interested  in  working  among  the  women 
at  the  almshouse  who  are  blind. 

Address :    Mrs.  Ithamar  W.  Beard,  Blackwell's  Island,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Mary  Kennedy  Gay  Gove,  daughter  of  Ziba  and 
Mary  (Kennedy)  Gay,  the  eldest  of  ten  children,  was  born  at 
Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.  When  she  was  three  or  four  years  of 
age  the  family  removed  to  Nashua,  N.  H.,  making  the  journey 
by  canal  and  by   "prairie  schooner"    over  the  Vermont  Hills. 

In  1844  she  was  married  to  Judge  Charles  F.  Gove,  and  con- 
tinued to  reside  in  Nashua,  where  the  greater  part  of  her  life 
was  spent.  In  the  early  part  of  the  year  1855  she  became 
teacher  of  Painting  at  the  Oread.  Here  she  remained  a  year 
or  more,  testifying  by  her  thorough  and  able  teaching  to  the 
true  artistic  sense  which  she  possessed. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Mrs.  Gove  taught  music  and  painting 
for  a  short  time  in  the  Young  Ladies'  School  of  her  sister, 
Mi^s  K.  Jane  ( lay,  in  Knoxville,  Tenn.  Afterwards  she  lived 
in  Nashua,  where  she  had  pupils  in  painting,  and  was  organist 
of  one  of  the  churches.  I  ler  oil  sketches  of  the  beautiful 
scenery  in  Wilton,  X.  II.,  are  still  preserved  and  valued,  and 
show  a  line  skill  in  the  representation  of  foliage. 

In  her  last  year  Mrs.  Gove  made  her  home  with  her  brother, 
Mr.  Ziba  Gay,  in  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  where  she  died 
January  10,  1874. 


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Eliza   A.    Graves    taught    Drawing   and    Painting    at    the 

Oread  from   1855  to   1857  or  1858. 

She  was  born  in  the  town  of  Sunderland  on  the  Connecticut 
River  in  Franklin  Comity,  Mass.,  August  7,  1817.  Her  parents 
were  Horatio  and  Fanny  (Gunn)  Graves.  Her  descent  was 
English  and  Norman  on  her  father's  side,  English  (  Montague) 
and  Scotch  on  her  mother's  side. 

Miss  Graves'  childhood  was  strongly  marked  by  her  love  of 
the  beautiful;  and  a  taste  for  an  artistic  life  was  early  devel- 
oped, possibly  under  the  inspiration  of  the  very  picturesque 
scenery  by  which  her  early  home  was  surrounded.  Her  social 
traits  were  also  strongly  marked.  Her  gift  of  language  was 
full  and  free,  and  she  gave  early  promise  of  the  brilliant  con- 
versational power  she  afterwards  developed,  as  well  as  of  her 
artistic  taste. 

Miss  Graves'  life,  from  1844  to  1857  or  1858.  was  occupied 
as  a  teacher  of  Art  at  Knoxville.  Tenn.,  in  Greensboro  Female 
College,  X.  C,  in  Montgomery,  Ala.,  and  at  the  Oread. 

Those  who  now  recall  her  as  an  art  teacher  at  the  Oread, 
remember  her  very  pleasantly.  Her  ill  health  caused  her  to 
sever  her  connection  with  the  Institute,  and  checked  the  power 
of  her  brave  and  forceful  life.  She  died  May  4,  1863,  at  her 
sister's  home  in  Worcester. 

Mrs.  Mary  Bacon  Hancock  Grosvenor  was  born  in 
Barre.  Mass.,  February  11,  1817.  She  was  married  to  Joseph 
Williston  Grosvenor  in  Barre,  April  26,  1835,  and  at  the  age 
of  twenty  was  left  a  widow  with  two  sons  to  rear  and  educate. 
Her  courage  and  her  independence  enabled  her  to  triumph  over 
the  difficulties  of  the  situation.  She  accepted  a  position  as 
teacher  of  Drawing  and  Painting  at  Leicester  Academy,  which 
she  held  for  two  or  three  years.  In  1852  she  became  connected 
with  the  Oread  in  the  same  capacity,  remaining  there  until  the 
close  of  the  year  i854.:::  At  some  time  previous  to  i860  she 
opened  a  school  of  Art  and  Design  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  the 
school  continuing  several  years.  On  September  20,  1864,  she 
was  married  to  Mr.  Edwin  Woods  of  Barre,  and  for  the  past 
forty  years  has   resided  in  her  native  town,   having  been  one 

::  For  a   picture  of   Mrs.   Grosvenor,   see  page  26. 

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of  the  leading  spirits  there  in  social  life  and  in  religions  and 
philanthropic  work.  At  her  hospitable  home  have  been  enter- 
tained many  distinguished  strangers  who  have  visited  the  town. 
Until  within  five  or  six  years  she  continued  to  follow  her  art  of 
painting  for  the  love  of  it.  She  has  been  a  widow  for  about 
twenty-five  years.  Her  Oread  pupils  of  long  ago  rejoice  to 
learn  that  she  is  now  enjoying  a  sunny  old  age,  with  good 
health  and  faculties  well  preserved. 

Address :   Mrs.  Mary  H.  Woods,  Barre,  Mass. 

Mr.  E.  T.  Martin  came  to  the  Oread  in  1852  as  a  teacher 
of  Penmanship,  remaining  probably  three  or  four  years. 

He  died  many  years  ago  in  Worcester,  where  his  whole  life 
was  spent. 

Professor  F.  C.  Misner  came  to  the  Oread  Institute  in 
1852  as  teacher  of  Latin,  French  and  German.  He  was  a  native 
German,  and  an  excellent  instructor. 

He  left  the  Oread  in  1857,  and  removed  to  Iowa,  carrying 
with  him  the  high  respect  and  warm  regard  of  many  classes 
of  pupils,  who  still  remember  him  as  a  bright  and  sunny  part  of 
their  Oread  life. 

The  following  was  given  by  one  of  the  graduates  of  the  Oread 
in  the  class  of  1854,  as  part  of  a  response  to  a  toast  at  the 
Reunion  of  1903 : 

"Who  does  not  remember  Professor  Misner,  our  teacher  of 
languages  in  the  early  fifties !  Tall  and  thin,  with  a  very  high 
forehead,  and  large  eyes,  in  fact  language  was  written  all  over 
his  face.  He  was  too  amiable  to  be  a  good  disciplinarian,  and 
sometimes  when  the  young  ladies  troubled  him  by  looking  out 
of  the  window,  he  would  say,  'Come,  come,  la  curiosite  est  au 
genre  feminin!'  evidently  thinking  he  had  given  a  most  crush- 
ing shot ! 

"He  spoke  so  many  different  languages  that  he  sometimes  got 
them  mixed,  as  when  he  tried  to  bring  his  too  talkative  and 
digressive  class  back  to  business  by  saying,  'Come,  come,  perge, 
we  must  necessarily  proceed,'  spoken  with  his  decidedly  nasal 
twang.  But  he  was  a  great  linguist,  from  whom  one  could 
learn  much  if  studious  and  attentive." 


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Another  of  his  pupils  writes:  "We  had  a  very  fine  Latin 
teacher,  Professor  Misner,  who  always  spoke  Latin  in  the  class, 
and  insisted  upon  our  doing  the  same.  He  was  educated  at 
Belgium  University,  where,  he  said,  Latin  was  the  only  lan- 
guage used  throughout  the  course." 

Mrs.  Rachel  Blanchard  Poole  was  born  May  12,  1817, 
in  Weymouth,  Mass.,  the  daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Rachel 
(Hawes)  Blanchard.  Her  grandmother  Hawes  was  Sarah 
White  from  Hingham. 

All  her  ancestors  were  Xew  England  people.  One  of  them, 
!  >egory  Priest,  belonged  to  the  Mayflower  colony  of  Plymouth. 
Another,  Thomas  Blanchard,  was 
the  first  of  that  name  who  settled 
in  Xew  England.  He  came  to 
Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1639,  having 
been  driven  from  France  to  Eng- 
land because  of  Huguenot  princi- 
ples. An  ancestor,  also  named 
Thomas,  was  burned  at  the  stake 
in  Rouen  as  a  martyr. 

Rachel  Blanchard's  mother,  a 
woman  of  strong  and  noble  char- 
acter, was  left  a  widow  with  three 
children  when  Rachel,  the  eldest, 
was  quite  young.     Rachel  began  to 

teach  when  less  than  sixteen  years  old,  and  a  little  later  she 
and  her  two  sisters  were  students  at  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminar)-, 
.in  Mary  Lyon's  time.  It  is  thought  by  surviving  relatives  that 
when  she  had  completed  her  studies  she  remained  at  the  semi- 
nar)' awhile  as  a  teacher. 

Rachel  Blanchard,  in  her  maturity,  had  a  fine  physique,  a 
commanding  presence,  and  is  remembered  by  those  now  living 
who  knew  her,  as  a  stately,  dignified  and  beautiful  woman,  and 
a  favorite  with  the  younger  members  of  the  family.  <  >n 
Xovember  5,  1837,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  she  was  married  to 
Joseph  Warren  Poole,  also  of  Weymouth,  and  one  son  was  born 
to  them  about  1841.  Her  husband  died  in  June,  1843,  and 
Mrs.  Poole  soon  returned  to  her  profession,  entering  Charles- 
town  Seminary  in  1845  as  teacher  of  Rhetoric,  Latin  and  other 
studies.     She  probably  remained  there  until  the  summer  of  1851. 


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Mrs.  Poole  came  to  the  Oread  Institute  as  its  third  Precep- 
tress, in  the  autumn  of  185 1,  immediately  succeeding  her  friend, 
Miss  Frances  H.  Clark,  who  had  also  been  with  her  at  Charles- 
town  Seminary.  Although  she  filled  her  position  at  the  Oread 
most  satisfactorily  she  remained  one  term  only,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Mrs.  Curtis. 

Mrs.  Poole  was  married  again  April  18,  1854,  to  Deacon 
Abner  P.  Nash,  formerly  of  Weymouth,  and  then  residing  in 
Boston,  being  one  of  Boston's  prominent  merchants.  She  died 
very  suddenly  on  March  25,  1859. 

Deacon  Nash  lived  until  August  27.  1892.  Mrs.  Poole's  only 
son,  Edward  Everett  Poole,  also  survived  his  mother.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  Phillips  Academy.  He  was  married  to  Miss 
Jennie  Fogg,  and  was  for  a  number  of  years  employed  by  the 
firm  of  Fogg  Brothers  &  Co.,  bankers  and  brokers.  His  home 
was  in  Boston.     He  died  April   11,   1902,  leaving  no  children. 


Hamilton  Barclay  Staples  was  born  in  Mendon,  Mass., 
February  14,  1829.  Fie  prepared  for  college  at  Worcester 
Academy,  and  was  graduated  from  Brown  University  in  1851, 
taking  the  Latin  Salutatory.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1854,  and  first  practiced  law  in  Milford,  but  in  1869  went  to 
Worcester  and  practiced  there  until  1881,  when  he  was 
appointed  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried;  first,  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Godfrey  of  Mendon,  and,  in 
1868,  to  Miss  Mary  Clinton  Dewey  of  Northampton.  He  held 
the  office  of  District  Attorney  for  seven  years  before  being 
appointed  Judge.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Antiquarian  Society 
of  Worcester,  a  Trustee  of  the  City  Hospital,  and  a  member  of 
the  Common  Council,  lie  held  the  office  of  Judge  until  the 
time  of  his  death,  August  2,    1891. 

Mr.  Staples  began  teaching  at  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  1853, 
having  classes  in  Rhetoric,  Logic  and  English  Literature.  The 
surviving  members  of  his  class  in  Kane's  Elements  of  Criticism, 
in  1854,  hear  willing  testimony  to  his  worth  as  a  teacher,  to 
the  intellectual  stimulus  they  received  from  him,  and  to  their 
delightful  recollections  of  pleasant  recitations  around  the  large, 
square  table  in  his  class-room. 

Mr.  Staples'  connection  with  the  school  closed,  probably,  in 
December,  1854. 


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Professor  J.  W.  Taverner,  whose  name  is  found  in  the 
catalogue  of  the  school  for  1850,  was  an  Englishman  who 
traveled  about  the  country  spending  a  few  days  each  at  many 
different  seminaries  of  learning  and  giving  a  course  of  lectures 
and  exercises  in  Elocution.  During  his  stay  at  the  Oread  all 
class-room  work  was  given  up  for  a  few  days  and  the  time 
wholly  devoted  to  Elocution.  This  was  in  the  latter  part  of 
January,   1856. 

Franziska  Wilhelmine  Vagt  was  born  in  Bremen,  Ger- 
many, where  she  received  her  education.  She  was  connected 
with  the  Oread  Institute  as  teacher  of  German  from  1851 
until  her  marriage  to  Captain  Ezra 
Fitch  of  Worcester.  After  Captain 
Fitch's  death  in  [864,  she  taught 
at  the  Oread  awhile,  then  went  to 
Troy,  X.  Y.,  and  taught  French  and 
( rerman  in  the  Troy  Female  Semi- 
nar}- under  Mrs.  John  Willard  until 
1872,  when  it  was  closed  as  a  board- 
ing school.  In  1873  she  returned  to 
the  Oread  a  second  time  and  taught 
French  and  German  there  until 
she  established  her  own  school  for 
young  ladies  in  Worcester.  This 
school     was     continued     till     1894. 

Since  then  she  has  made  several  educational  visits  with  young 
ladies  to  her  native  land  and  to  France. 

She  now  lives  with  her  daughter,  .Mrs.  John  Magee,  nee 
Mellie  Fitch,  an  Oread  pupil  of  1873. 

Address:    Mrs.  Minna  V.  Fitch.  Duxburv,  Mass. 


George  Nelson  Webber  was  born  in  Pomfret,  Conn., 
August  27,  1826,  of  Dutch  and  English  parentage.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Woodstock  ( Conn. )  Academy,  and  at 
Worcester  Academy,  and  was  graduated  at  Amherst  College  in 
1852.  He  taught  one  year,  1852-53.  at  the  <  )read,  the  instruc- 
tion of  the  first  senior  class  in  that  institution  devolving  almost 
wholly  upon  him  and  the   Principal.     This  class  consisted  of 


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ten  or  twelve  young  ladies,  two  of  whom  completed  the  full 
course  in  1854,  and  Mr.  Webber  was  their  Instructor  in  Mental 
and  Moral  Philosophy,  and  cognate  studies. 

Upon    leaving    the    Oread,    Mr.    Webber    entered    Andover 
Theological  Seminary.     He  was  Tutor  at  Amherst  College  for 

one  year,  was  ordained  and  installed 
pastor  of  the  South  Congregational 
Church  of  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont, 
in  1855,  and  later  was  pastor  of 
the  North  Congregational  Church 
of  Hartford,  Conn.,  becoming  after- 
wards pastor  of  a  church  in  Lowell, 
Mass.  In  1867  Mr.  Webber  became 
Professor  of  Mental  and  Moral  Phil- 
osophy at  Middlebury  College,  and 
in  1874  he  became  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Troy, 
N.  Y.  He  retired  from  this  pas- 
torate on  account  of  illness  in  1883, 
and  has  since  resided  in  Northampton,  Mass.  Here  he  was 
for  eight  years  Instructor  of  the  Senior  class  in  Smith  College, 
and  gave  lectures  on  Ethics  and  Evidences  of  Christianity.  He 
preached  often,  also,  in  the  neighboring  churches. 
Address :    Northampton,  Mass. 


OREAD  PUPILS   FROM   1849  TO   1859 


GRADUATES 

DURING  the  first  ten  years  of  the  Oread's  history,  there 
were  four  graduating  classes — those  of  1854,  1855,  1856 
and  1857..  and  in  these  four  classes  there  were  twelve  graduates. 
This  small  number  of  graduates,  as  compared  with  the  large 
registration  of  the  school,  was  due  to  the  high  standard  set  by 
Mr.  Thayer,  and  the  fact  that  in  those  early  days  parents  sent 
their  daughters  away  for  only  a  year  or  two  of  schooling, — not 
long  enough  in  most  cases  to  enable  them  to  take  the  full  course 
required  for  an  Oread  degree. 

The  biographies  of  the  twelve  graduates  follow : 


CLASS   OF    1854 

Ellen  Bullard  was  the  daughter  of  Elias  and  Betsy  (Howe) 
Bullard  of  Petersham,  Mass.  After  her  graduation  she  taught 
school  for  a  few  months,  and,  in  1858.  was  married  to  A.  R. 
Owen  of  Belchertov.n,  Mass.  She  died  in  Belchertown  twenty 
years  later. 

"Her  entire  unselfishness,  her  faithfulness  to  all  life's  duties, 
her  never  failing  interest  in,  and  regard  for,  her  friends,  her 
quiet  beaut}"  and  patience,  and  loving  thought  for  others,  made 
her  home  life  a  blessing  to  all  who  came  within  its  influence." 

Sarah  Jane  Wheelock,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Susan 
Pratt  (Prentice)  Wheelock,  was  born  May  8,  1832.  in  Smith- 
field.  R.  I.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  185 1  and  was  graduated 
in  1854.  The  following  year  she  taught  in  a  High  School  in 
Portsmouth.   Ohio.      On   June   25,    1855,   she   was  married   at 


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Portsmouth  to  Samuel  D.  Hickok,  a  merchant  and  manufac- 
turer of  that  place.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Rev.  Laurens  P. 
Hickok,  for  several  years  President  of  Union  College.  They 
had  one  child:  Esther  May  Hickok,  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
May  5,  1872,  who  was  married  May  8,  1895,  to  Robert  Johnston. 

Mrs.  Hickok  has  been  interested 
in  various  charitable  enterprises, 
and  has  written  an  occasional  news- 
paper article,  and  several  papers 
delivered  before  the  Woman's  Club 
of  Westfield,  X.  J. 

Of    her    ancestors    she    writes : 
"Jerome  Wheelock,  the  famous  in- 
ventor and  manufacturer  of  steam 
engines,  was  my  brother.     I   am  a 
descendant  of  Ralph  Wheelock,  who 
was   born   in   Shropshire,   England, 
in  1600,  and  educated  at  Clare  Hall, 
Cambridge,  where  he  graduated  in  1626.     He  was  a  fellow  stu- 
dent of   John   Eliot   and   probably   a   descendant   of   Hugh   de 
Whelock,  who  in  the  reign  of  Henry  11  received  from  Roger 
Mainwaring   a    title   to   all    of   the 
latter's    claim     to    the    village    of 
Whelock  in  Cheshire  County.     He 
was  a  dissenting  minister  and,  be- 
ing persecuted  for  non-conformity, 
he,  with  sixty  graduates  from  Ox- 
ford   and    Cambridge,    came    from 
England  and  settled  in  the  vicinity 
of  Cambridge,   Mass.       In    [638  he 
moved    to    Dedham,    where   a   tract 
of  land  was  assigned  him.      Mis  is 
the    tenth    name    signed    to     "Ded- 
ham Covenant"  (constitution  of  die 

town).  In  1044  die  first  free  school  supported  by  a  town  tax 
in  Massachusetts  was  started,  and  Ralph  Wheelock  was  the  first 
teacher.  Me  had  in  his  school  the  ancestors  of  five  college 
presidents:  two  Dwights  of  Vale,  Eliol  of  Harvard,  and 
Eleazar  Wheelock,  first  president  of  Dartmouth,  who  was  sue- 


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ceeded  by  his  son  John  Wheelock.  Ralph  Wheelock  had  nine 
children,  including  four  sons.  His  third  son  Samuel  also  had 
a  son,  Samuel,  Jr.,  whose  son  Paul,  horn  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass., 
1727,  was  a  farmer.  His  son  Paul,  Jr..  had  twelve  children,  one 
of  whom,  Daniel,  horn  in  Millbury,  Mass..  November  7,  1700. 
was  my  father.  My  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Pren- 
tice of  Weathersfield,  \  t..  and  .Molly  Pratt,  who  was  one  of 
sixteen  children  of  Aaron  Pratt  of  Cohasset,  Mass.,  a  man  of 
strong  individuality  and  independence  of  character." 

Address:    Mrs.  S.  D.  Hickok,  42  Clark  St.,  Westfield,  X.  J. 


CLASS    OF    1855 

Lydia    Hooper    Blackler,    born   in   Marblehead,    Mass.,  a 
member  of  the  historic   Hooper  family,   entered  the  <  >read  in 
[852.     After  graduation  she  taught   for  a  year  at  the  Oread, 
spent  some  two  years  or  more  with 
relatives  in  Boston,  and  then  joined 
a  married   sister  in   Portland,   Ore- 
gon, where  she  was  induced  to  take 
a  position  as  teacher  in  St.  Helen's 
Hall.     She  remained  there  fourteen 
years.      Later  she  taught   for   four 
years  in   Mills   College.   California, 
enjoying   the    work,    for    which    she 
was  eminently  fitted. 

After  spending  some  time  abroad, 
in  visiting  friends  who  were  resid- 
ing in  Europe,  and  in  travel,  Miss 
Blackler    returned    to    the    Pacific 

coast,  where,  with  her  two  sisters,  she  now  resides,  blessed 
with  good  health  and  the  capacity  for  enjoying  all  that  is  best 
in  the  world. 

Address:    1010  Franklin  St.,  Olympia,  Wash. 


Sarah  Bray  Roundey  of  Marblehead.  Mass.,  was  married 
soon  after  leaving  the  Oread,  and  died  the  following  year.  She 
was  a  fine  scholar  and  had  a  charming  personality.  Her  early 
death  was  deplored  by  all  who  knew  her. 


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JULIET    WARNER.      SARAH    ROUNDEY,   '55. 
LYDJA   BLACKLER,    '55.      LOUISA   EARLE. 
ELIZABETH   BUGBEE. 


ROSALINDA    PALMER,   '55.       ELLEN    PALMER,  '62. 
REV.    SAMUEL    PALMER    AND    HIS    FAMILY. 


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Rosalinda    Healy    Palmer,    eldest    daughter    of    Samuel 

rainier,  a  Methodist  minister  of  Woodstock,  Conn.,  and  his 
wife,  Eleanor  (Howard)  Palmer,  a  native  of  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, was  horn  April  24,  1835,  at  Ware,  Mass.,  where  her  father 


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1855. 


1861. 


was  stationed  at  that  time.  She  early  evinced  a  love  of  study 
and  a  desire  to  obtain  an  education,  learning  the  Latin  Grammar 
while  working  daily  to  earn  her  own  livelihood. 


1866. 


1867. 


She  entered  the  Oread  as  a  pupil  in  1853,  assuming  at  the 
same  time  the  duties  of  Registrar.  She  was  graduated  in  [855 
as  Valedictorian  of  her  class. 


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After  her  graduation,  studying'  and  teaching"  filled  the  years 
of  her  short  life.  She  taught  for  a  year  at  the  Oread,  and  for 
a  year  in  Virginia ;  afterwards  at  the  Military  School  for  hoys  ' 
at  Yonkers  on  the  Hudson  ;  at  Air.  Wiener's  Jewish  School 
in  New  York  ;  at  Miss  Greene's  "Fifth  Avenue  School  for 
Young  Ladies"  ;  and  at  Dr.  West's  School  on  Brooklyn  Heights. 
It  was  while  at  the  latter  that  her  health  failed,  obliging  her 
to  abandon  class-room  work,  although  she  had  some  private 
classes  after  that. 

By  studying  constantly  while  teaching,  in  1867  she  was  grad- 
uated from  Cooper  Institute,  Xew  York,  and  received  the 
Bronze  Medal,  being  the  first  woman  to  achieve  that  honor. 

She  was  the  eldest  of  eight  children,  five  of  whom  lived  to 
mature  years.  Her  sisters  speak  gratefully  of  her  devotion  to 
her  family  and  to  them,  in  assisting  them  to  obtain  an  education 
and  inspiring  them  with  her  courage  and  high  ideals. 

While  in  New  York  she  was  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church,  in  which  she  was  an  active  worker,  and 
a  Sunday  School  teacher.  The  more  active  duties  and  occu- 
pations of  her  life  prevented  her  from  attempting  much  purely 
literary  work.  An  occasional  article  for  the  Xew  York  Inde- 
pendent, or  a  short  poem  for  a  magazine,  were  all  for  which 
she  found  time  or  opportunity. 

Rosalinda  Palmer  was  a  woman  of  great  intellectual  power 
and  of  unusual  force  of  character.  She  was  a  student  of  rare 
scholarship,  of  great  ambition  and  of  unwearying  industry.  In 
her  short  life  of  thirty-four  years  she  accomplished  much.  She 
died  in  Woodstock,  Conn.,  September  4,  1869,  and  was  buried 
in  the  quiet  cemetery  of  that  old  town. 


CLASS   OF    1856 

Sophia  Holland  Arms,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Aaron 
and  Eliza  (Hapgood)  Arms,  was  born  March  15,  1835.  When 
she  was  six  months  old  her  mother  died,  and  she  was  cared  for 
by  her  uncle,  Seth  Hapgood,  "one  of  the  noblest  and  best  of 
men."  Her  mother  came  from  Petersham  and  was  descended 
from  lion.  Matthew  Grant,  Colonel  in  the  Revolutionary  War, 


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and  also  a  Member  of  Congress.     Sophie  was  graduated  from 

the  Oread  in  1856,  having"  been  a  pupil  there  for  several  years, 
during  the  time  that  her  sister  Elizabeth  G.  Arms  was  a  teacher 
of  the  English  branches  at 
that  institution. 

On  October  7,  1863,  she 
was  married  to  Mr.  Amory 
Bigelow  of  Chicago,  and 
had  four  children :  Bessie 
Hapgood,  Arthur,  Charles, 
and  Robert  Amory. 

The  Chicago  fire  of  1873 
was  a  crushing  blow  to 
Mr.  Bigelow,  but  nothing- 
daunted,  he  started  again  in 

the  commission  business,  and  did  well  until  his  health  failed, 
when  he  gave  up  business  and  returned  to  his  childhood's  home, 
where  he  died.  May  4,  1901. 

Address:    Mrs.   Sophia  Arms   Bigelow,  Beverly,   X.  J. 


SOPHIA   ARMS 


SARAH    ROUNDEV,     55. 


Eliza  A.  Clarke,  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  ( La  Du ) 
Clarke,  was  born  in  Phelps,  X.  Y.,  October  24,  1836,  and  was 
graduated  from  the  Oread  in  1856,  as  Valedictorian  of  her  class. 
Before  going  to  the  Oread  she  had  been  a  teacher  at  the  Vienna 
(now  Phelps,  X.  Y.)  Classical  School,  which  has  numbered 
among  its  pupils  some  of  the  best  scholars  in  the  state. 

It  has  been  said  of  her  that  she  took  rank  with  the  best 
scholars  and  educators  in  the  various  institutions  where  she 
was  known,  and  was  always  a  most  persistent  Christian  worker. 
She  became  Preceptress  of  the  Classical  School  at  Phelps,  upon 
her  graduation  from  the  Oread,  and  afterwards  taught  at  Cold 
Springs  on  the  Hudson.  Later  she  was  appointed  to  the  respon- 
sible position  of  Preceptress  of  Cazenovia  Seminary. 

She  was  married,  September  14,  1864,  to  Samuel  Johnson  of 
Dowagiac,  Mich.,  a  professor  in  Michigan  Agricultural  College. 
They  had  two  daughters:  Alice  A.,  born  in  ( )ctober.  1865,  and 
Clara,  born  in  August,  1870,  both  at  Dowagiac.  They  were 
educated  at  Michigan  Agricultural  College. 

Mrs.  Johnson  was  for  many  years  President  of  the  Library 
Association  of  Dowa"iac,  in  which  office  she  won  the  confidence 


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of  all  who  were  associated  with  her.  She  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  from  1853  till  her  death, 
which  occurred  April   1,   1874. 

Mary  Frances  Gilman  was  graduated  from  the  Oread 
July  2,  1856.  She  was  born  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  July  6,  1835,  and 
lived  there  until  1845.  when  the  family  moved  to  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Her  father  was  Mark  Seavey 
Gilman,  and  her  mother  Hannah 
Flint  Estey.  Her  father  was  de- 
scended, in  the  fifth  generation, 
from  John  Gilman  of  Hingham, 
England,  who  came  to  this  country 
in  1638.  and  lived  for  a  few  years 
in  [pswich,  and,  sometime  near 
1648,  settled  at  Exeter,  N.  H.  In 
1680,  when  New  Hampshire  was 
separated  from.  Massachusetts, 
John  Gilman  was  appointed  Coun- 
cillor, and  continued  in  office  three 
years.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,  and  in  1693  was  elected  Speaker 
of  the  House. 

It  was  to  his  descendants  principally  that  the  town  of  Gil- 
manton  was  granted  in  1727,  for  services  rendered  in  defence 
of  their  country;  but  while  they  were  proprietors,  they  mostly 
continued  to  reside  at  Exeter. 

In  1757  his  grandson,  John  Gilman,  was  a  Major  at  Fort 
Edwards,  and  was  sent  to  Fort  William  Henry  with  reinforce- 
ments. Arriving  just  after  the  capitulation,  he  was  captured 
by  General  Montcalm's  savage  Indian  allies,  and  with  great 
difficulty  escaped.  He  was  the  owner  of  slaves  in  Exeter,  and 
one  of  them  had  a  son.  Rev.  Thomas  Paul,  pastor  of  a  church 
"of  blacks,"   in  Boston,  from   [806  to  [831. 

Mary  Frances  Gilman  was  married  to  Andrew  Peirce,  of 
Boston,  Mass.,  June  6,  [861.  Her  husband  was  a  member  of 
the  linn  <>\  Peirce  &  Bacon,  who  were  largely  interested  in 
southern  products,  especially  those  from  Texas.  The  firm 
received  large  supplies  of  cotton  brought  in  their  packets, 
which  were  sold  to  manufactories  in  New  England,  and  at 
times    forwarded   to   Enefland.     After  the  Civil  War  the  firm 


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was  dissolved,  and  in  1868.,  Mr.  Peirce  was  elected  General 
Manager  of  the  South  Pacific  Railway.  lie  then  took  his 
family  to  St.  Louis,  where,  under  his  management,  340  miles 
of  railroad  was  built  through  a  wild 
country.  In  1872  he  was  elected 
President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railway, 
into  which  the  South  Pacific  had 
been  merged.  After  finishing  the 
road  to  Yinita,  Indian  Territory,  it 
was  not  deemed  expedient  to  extend 
it  at  that  time,  on  account  of  finan- 
cial pressure.  So  he  removed  to 
Xew  York  to  attend  to  the  financial 
affairs  of  the  company.  The  name 
was  changed  to  St.  Louis  and  San 
Francisco  Railway,  as  the   Atlantic 

and  Pacific  charter  enabled  them  to  connect  with  any  road 
which  might  lead  to  San  Francisco.  He  continued  as  General 
Manager  and  President  until  July,  1877,  when  he  resigned  and 
came  to  Clifton  Springs.  X.  Y.,  where  he  had  previously  taken 
his  family  on  account  of  his  wife's  health. 

While  there  he  hecame  interested  in  making  improvements 
at  the  Sanitarium.  He  appreciated  the  fact  that  Dr.  Henry 
Foster  Avas  doing  a  wonderful  work  for  afflicted  humanity, 
and  he  gave  two  years  of  his  time  and  energy,  and  fifteen 
thousand  dollars  for  much  needed  improvements,  in  filling  in 
and  grading  the  grounds,  setting  out  shrubs  and  trees,  and 
building  a  pavilion  over  the  largest  sulphur  springs. 

There  they  passed  fourteen  very  happy  years.  At  that 
time  there  was  an  excellent  Seminary  there  for  the  daughters. 
They  were  born  in  Boston :  Elizabeth  Gilman  on  December 
9,  1864;  Clara  Louisa,  on  May  8,  1866.  After  attending 
school  at  Clifton  Springs  they  were  a  year  at  Rochester  and 
two  years  in  Boston.  Clara  was  married  to  Washington 
Wilson  November  8.  1891.  and  went  to  Metuchen  to  live. 
Elizabeth  was  married  to  Jesse  Taylor  Jackson  of  Metuchen, 
where  they  live.  Mr.  Peirce  passed  away  December  19.  1891, 
but  still  lives  in  the  hearts  of  very  many  who  bless  his  name. 

Address:    Mrs.  Mary  Frances  Peirce,  Clifton  Springs.  X.  Y. 


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Maria  Goodrich  was  born  at  Ware,  Mass.,  July  31,  1837, 
and  died  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  on  March  1,  1895.  The  follow- 
ing sketch  of  her  life  has  been  contributed  by  her  son,  William 
Goodrich  Thompson. 

"She  was  the  fifth  child  of  Horace  and  Elizabeth  (Dickinson) 
Goodrich.  Horace  Goodrich  was  a  physician,  a  graduate  of 
Yale  College  in  the  class  of  18 14,  and  a  lineal  descendant,  in  the 
sixth  generation,  of  William  Goodrich,  who,  in  1643,  came  from 
the  village  of  Goodrich,  Wales,  and  settled  in  Wethersfield, 
Conn.  Horace  Goodrich's  parents  were  Josiah  and  Abigail 
(  WOlcott)   Goodrich,  of  Berlin,  Conn. 

"Elizabeth  Dickinson  was  the  daughter  of  William  and 
Dorothy  (Warner)  Dickinson,  of  Hadley,  Mass.  William 
Dickinson  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Dickinson,  who 
in  1030  came  to  Salem  with  Winthrop  in  the  Arabella. 

"Maria  Goodrich  graduated  from  the  Oread  in  1856.  On 
May  14,  1862,  at  East  Winsor  Hill,  Conn.,  where  her  family 
then  lived,  she  was  married  to  Charles  Oliver  Thompson,  the 
oldest  son  of  Rev.  William  and  Eliza  ( Butler)  Thompson, 
who  also  lived  at  East  Winsor  Hill.  Rev.  William  Thompson 
was  professor  of  Hebrew  in  the  theological  seminary  which 
was  afterwards  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  is  now 
known  as  the  Hartford  Theological  Seminary.  Charles  Oliver 
Thompson  was  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College,  in  the  class 
of  1858.  He  later  received  from  that  College  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy. 

"(  )f  this  marriage  there  were  four  children,  whose  names 
are:  William  Goodrich,  born  at  Peacham,  Yt.,  November  16. 
[864,  now  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  in  lXXX,  and  from  the  Harvard  Eaw  School  in  1891; 
Lewis  Sabin,  born  at  Templeton,  Mass.,  October  31,  1868, 
now  of  Hingham,  Mass.,  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in 
[892,  and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1895 ;  Charles 
Horace,  born  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  August  3,  [872,  died  at 
Worcester,  Mass.,  April  24.  1873:  Katharine  Maria,  born  at 
Worcester,  Mass..  July  12,  1874,  now  of  Cambridge,  Mass.. 
graduated  from  Radcliffe  College  in  [896. 

"At  the  time  of  his  marriage  my  father  was  Principal  of 
the  Academy  in  Peacham,  \  t..  and  the  first  two  years  of  my 
mother's   married    life    were   spent    there.      In    [864   my    father 


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became   Principal   of  the   Cotting   High    School   in   Arlington, 

Mass.,  and  lived  there  until  1868,  when  he  was  appointed  first 
Principal  of  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  School  at  Worcester, 
Mass.,  then  known  as  the  Worcester  Free  Institute  of  Indus- 
trial Science.  To  prepare  for  organizing  and  starting  this 
school,  which  was  one  of  the  first,  if  not  the  first  of  its  kind 
in  the  country,  my  lather  spent  seven  months  in  Europe,  study- 
ing methods  of  technical  education.  During  this  time  my 
mother  was  with  her  uncle,  the  Rev.  Lewis  Sabin  of  Temple- 
ton,  Mass. ;  and  there  her  second  son.  Lewis,  was  born  on  the 
morning  of  his  father's  home  coming  from  Europe. 

"From  the  autumn  of  1869  until  the  summer  of  1882,  the 
family  lived  in  Worcester.  My  mother's  interest  in  her  hus- 
band's work  as  Principal  of  the  Polytechnic  School  was  deep 
and  intelligent.  In  the  midst  of  household  cares,  she  still  found 
time  for  reading  and  reflection,  and  ever  kept  in  touch  with 
the  larger  interests  of  life.  She  was  happy  in  the  knowledge 
that  her  sympathy  and  encouragement  were  contributing  to 
the  success  of  the  important  experiment  in  education  which  her 
husband  was  conducting  in  Worcester.  Every  paper,  I  think, 
written  by  him  on  the  subject  of  technical  education  and  pub- 
lished, or  delivered  as  an  address,  was,  in  the  first  instance, 
read  by  her.  Her  criticism  and  suggestions  were  always 
valuable. 

"In  1882  my  father  resigned  his  position  as  Principal  of  the 
Worcester  Polytechnic  School  to  become  the  first  President  of 
the  Rose  Polytechnic  School  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.  Before 
going  to  live  in  Terre  Haute,  my  father  and  mother  spent 
several  months  in  Europe.  This  was  my  mother's  first  experi- 
ence of  foreign  travel,  and  those  months  were  undoubtedly  the 
happiest  of  her  life.  The  family  moved  to  Terre  Haute  in 
February,  1883.  My  father's  work  there  in  organizing  the  new 
school  was  absorbing  and  successful. 

"On  March  17,  1885,  my  father  died  at  Terre  Haute  of  an 
acute  attack  of  rheumatic  fever.  From  this  bereavement  my 
mother  never  recovered.  Her  native  courage,  it  is  true, 
remained  unbroken ;  her  religious  faith  did  not  fail  her ;  but 
for  her  the  joy  of  life  had  gone  forever.  In  the  summer  of 
1885,  in  fulfilment  of  a  plan  made  with  her  husband  after  it 
was   known    that   he    could    not    recover,    she    came    with    her 


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children  to  Cambridge.  Her  life  here  was  retired  and,  in  the 
main,  uneventful.  Her  only  strong  interest  was  in  the  educa- 
tion and  welfare  of  her  children.  In  the  last  week  of  February, 
1895,  she  caught  a  severe  cold,  and  died  of  pneumonia  on  the 
first  day  of  March. 

"Only  her  husband  and  her  children  might  know  the  depths 
of  her  tenderness  and  her  love.  Others  knew  her  as  a  woman 
in  manner  graceful,  though  reserved;  in  judgment  deliberate 
and  sound;  with  a  singularly  clear  sense  of  justice;  and  with 
that  unmistakable  serenity  which  comes  from  faith  in  a  personal 
God." 

Angeline  Elizabeth  Holbrook  was  born  in  Grafton, 
Mass.,  October  28,  1835.  Her  father  being  a  strong  abolition- 
ist, and  an  admirer  of  the  Grimke  sisters — who  wTere  among 
the  first  in  the  South  to  liberate  their  slaves — gave  her  the 
name  of  the  younger,  Angelina  or  Angeline.* 

Her  father,  William  Holbrook,  and  her  mother,  Adeline 
Pratt,  were  descended  from  the  strictest  Puritan  ancestry, 
and  she  was  trained  religiously  and  morally  according  to  the 
custom  of  those  days.  In  her  girlhood  she  attended  the  com- 
mon school,  and  later  the  high  school,  from  which  she  entered 
the  Oread  in  1853.  On  account  of  ill  health  she  was  obliged 
to  leave  before  the  close  of  the  year,  but  returned  the  following 
year  and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1856. 

After  spending  a  few  months  at  home,  she  was  married  to 
George  M.  Smith  of  Walpole,  Mass.,  April  13,  1857.  They 
went  directly  to  Wisconsin,  which  was  then  in  the  far  West, 
and  Mr.  Smith  established  himself  in  the  bonk  and  stationery 
business  in  the  city  of  Appleton,  whose  existence  then  dated 
back  but  a  few  years.  Already  a  flourishing  university  had 
been  founded  here  through  the  beneficence  of  the  Appletons 
and  Lawrences  of  Boston.     Now,  many  of  the  brightest  minds 

*The  Grimke  sisters  were  daughters  of  Judge  Grimke  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  South  Carolina.  In  [828  they  joined  the  Society  of  Friends 
in  Philadelphia.  Although  they  had  owned  slaves  who  came  to  them 
by  inheritance,  their  repugnance  to  slavery  was  so  strong  that  in  1830 
they  began  lecturing  againsl  it — and  their  addresses  had  great  inllnence 
in  New  York  and  New  England.  This  controversy  was  the  beginning 
of  the  Woman's  Ri^ht^  agitation  in  this  country. 


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of  the  Middle  West  claim  Lawrence  University  as  their  Alma 
Mater.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  soon  became  interested  in  the 
growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city  and  it  was  their  home  for 
nine  years.  After  passing  a  year  or  more  in  the  towns  of 
Berlin  and  Ripon  in  the  same  state,  and  one  year  in  southern 
New  Jersey,  they  returned  to  Boston,  where  they  have  since 
lived,  Mr.  Smith  being  engaged  in  the  publication  of  books 
sold  by  subscription. 

They  have  had  no  children.  Airs.  Smith's  work  has  been 
wholly  in  the  home,  and  her  life  a  busy  one,  caring  for  the 
many  who  have  come  under  their  roof-tree. 

Address:  Airs.  George  M.  Smith.  141  Warren  Ave.,  Wollas- 
ton,  Mass. 


CLASS    OF    1857 

Elizabeth  Garland  Ayer  was  born  in  Littleton,  Mass.,  in 
1836.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Oliver  Ayer,  a  Baptist 
clergyman,  and  Caroline  P.  (  Gorham  )  Ayer.  both  of  Colonial 
Xew  England  descent.  She  was  a  student  at  the  Oread  from 
1854  to  1857,  and  was  Valedictorian  of  her  class.  In  1861  she 
was  married  to  Rev.  Warren  B.  Clapp,  a  Baptist  clergyman  of 
Dover,  N.  H.  Two  daughters,  born  of  this  marriage,  died  in 
infancy  :  a  son,  George,  is  established  in  Johannesburg,  South 
Africa  ;  a  second  son,  Warren  A.,  is  a  teacher  in  Orange,  X.  J. 
In  1866  Mr.  Clapp  died,  and  in  1868  Mrs.  Clapp  became  the 
wife  of  Henry   T.   Wiswall,   a  lawyer  of  Washington,   D.   C. 

Mrs.  Wiswall  died  in  Washington  in  1876,  leaving  two 
daughters  by  her  second  marriage ;  Annie,  married  to  Charles 
L.  Cook  of  Conway,  Mass. ;  Ruth,  now  Mrs.  Littlefield  of 
Exeter,  N.  H. 

Esther  Farr  entered  the  Oread  in  1854  from  Leicester, 
Mass.  After  her  marriage  to  Dr.  Wernaer  they  spent  much 
time  in  Europe.  Dr.  Wernaer.  who  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard, 
is  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

Address:  Mrs.  Robert  M.  Wernaer.  251  Langdon  St.,  Madi- 
son, Wise. 


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NON-GRADUATES. 

Sylvia  King  Adams  was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  May  14, 
1837.  Her  father,  Otis  Adams  of  Grafton,  was  descended  from 
the  Adams  family  that  settled  in  Watertown  in  1645.  Her 
mother,  Sylvia  King  of  Sutton,  was  a  descendant  of  Acquilla 
Chase,  who  lived  in  Newburyport  as  early  as  1640.  Her  grand- 
father and  great-grandfather  on  both  sides,  Nathaniel  and 
Andrew  Adams  of  Grafton,  and  Jonathan  and  John  King  of 
Sutton,  were  participants  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Miss  Adams  attended  the  Oread  from  1854  to  1856,  and  was 
married  in  Grafton,  October  12,  1859,  to  Charles  Bigelow,  who 
died  in  May,  1863.  She  lived  in  Grafton  until  1868,  when 
she  was  married  again,  on  June  25,  to  Charles  R.  E.  Koch  of 
Chicago. 

Mr.  Koch  is  a  dentist,  and  Secretary  of  the  Northwestern 
University  Dental  School.  He  received  the  degree  of  D.D.S. 
from  the  Washington  University  (St.  Louis,  Mo.)  Dental 
Department ;  is  ex-President  of  the  Chicago  Dental  Society ; 
ex-President  of  the  Illinois  State  Dental  Society;  ex-member, 
Secretary,  and  President  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Dental 
Examiners,  and  ex-President  of  the  National  Board  of  Dental 
Examiners. 

He  served  nearly  four  years  in  the  Civil  War  as  Private, 
Corporal,  First  Sergeant  and  Captain,  and  was  Provost  Mar- 
shal for  the  Western  District  of  Mississippi  in  1865-66.  He 
served  in  the  National  Guard  as  Captain,  Major,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  and  Colonel  of  the  First  Illinois  Infantry  from  1877 
to  1894. 

At  present  lie  is  a  Commissioner  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  and 
Secretary  of  the  Commission,  to  erect  in  the  National  Military 
Park  at  Vicksbnrg,  Miss.,  regimental  monuments  and  a  State 
Memorial  in  honor  of  the  eighty  regiments  and  batteries  from 
Illinois  who  served  in  the  campaign  and  siege  of  Vicksbnrg. 
He  is  a  member,  and  past  \.  A.  General  of  the  ( i.  A.  R. ;  a 
Companion  of  the  .Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States;  and  a  member  of  the  Military  Service  Institu- 
tion of  the  United  States. 


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Airs.  Koch  has  four  children  :  Sylvia  Augusta,  born  January  9, 
1861,  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  married  Thomas  \V.  Potts  of  Chicago, 
and  has  one  daughter,  Sylvia  Elizabeth,  horn  February 
18,  1884;  Josephine,  horn  Decem- 
ber 17,  1870,  in  Chicago,  married 
Arthur  M.  Crain  of  Boston,  and 
has  one  son,  Charles  Koch,  born 
March  21,  1896;  Alice  Adams,  born 
November  5,  1874,  married  Charles 
P.  Tobin,  then  of  Chicago,  now  of 
Boston,  and  has  one  son,  Charles 
Robert,  born  August  14,  1901  ; 
Mabelle  was  born  October  4,  1877, 
at  Chicago. 

Mrs.  Koch  is  a  member  and 
one  of  the  Founders  of  the  Dames 
of  the  Loyal  Legion ;  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chicago  Chapter  of  the  D.   A.   R. 

Address :    Mrs.  Charles  R.  E.  Koch,  140  East  Forty-seventh 
St.,  Chicago,  111. 


Helen  E.  Aldrich  was  a  day  pupil  at  the  Oread  about  1856, 
and  again  in  i860.  She  was  married  to  George  Elbridge 
Whiting,  the  well-known  Boston  organist  and  composer.  Mr. 
Whiting's  musical  career  began  at  Worcester,  where  as  a  boy 
he  early  showed  marked  talent  for  music.  He  was  organist 
at  Hartford,  Conn.,  then  at  Boston,  later  at  Albany,  N.  Y., 
and  finally  at  the  Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  Bos- 
ton, where  he  has  been  since  1883.  He  was  for  several  years 
teacher  of  the  organ  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music,  and  before  going  to  Boston  was,  from  1878  to  1883, 
organist  at  the  Cincinnati  Music  Hall,  and  Professor  of  Organ 
and  Composition  at  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Music.  His  best 
known  compositions  are  his  "Grand  Sonata"'  (Opus  4)  ;  three 
cantatas  entitled  "The  Tale  of  the  Viking,"  "Dream  Pictures." 
and  "Midnight" ;  and  "Preludes."  He  has  composed  a  one 
act  opera,    "Lenora,"    and  much  excellent  unpublished  work. 

Address :  Mrs.  George  E.  Whiting,  26  Concord  Sq.,  Boston, 
Mass. 


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Martha   L.  Allen   was  the  daughter  of  Elisha  Dwight,  and 
Oril   (Merrick)   Allen,  and  was  a  cousin  of  Mr.  B.  D.  Allen, 

the  Oread  music  teacher,  in  whose 
charge  she  was  placed  after  her 
parents'  death.  She  attended  the 
Oread  in  the  early  fifties,  and,  after 
leaving,  remained  in  Mr.  Allen's 
family  until  her  marriage,  about 
1868,  to  Edward  Fay  of  Cambridge- 
port,  an  upholsterer.  They  had  one 
son,  Charles,  who  is  in  business  in 
Boston. 

Mrs.  Fay  gave  music  lessons  and 
sang  in  a  church  choir  in  Cambridge- 
port  for  many  years.  She  died  at 
her  home  in  1898. 


Melinda  Andrews  was  born  in  Smithfield,  R.  I.,  January 
7,  1833.  She  was  the  daughter  of  John  Allen  Andrews,  a 
skillful  physician  in  Worcester  for  more  than  sixty  years, 
and  Melinda  (Dresser)  Andrews,  whose  grandfather,  Oliver 
Dresser,  won  honor  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

She  attended  the  Oread  during  the  spring  term  of  1850,  and 
the  winter  term  of  1850-51.  In  1851-52  she  taught  school  at 
Uxbridge,  Mass.,  and  in  1852  again  returned  to  the  Oread  for 
two  more  terms.  While  at  the  Oread  she  received  her  inspira- 
tion to  take  up  teaching  as  a  profession  from  Miss  Brigham, 
instructor  there  in  the  English  branches.  In  1854  she  taught 
one  term  at  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  and  then  moved  to  Worcester, 
where  she  continued  teaching  with  success  until  her  marriage 
on  November  23,  1850,  at  Cumberland,  R.  I.,  to  Frederick 
Green  Stiles,  a  carriage,  sign,  and  ornamental  painter. 

In  1862  Mr.  Stiles  recruited  a  company  of  volunteers  for 
the  Union  Army  and  was  commissioned  Captain,  being 
assigned  to  the  Forty-second  Regiment.  In  November  of  the 
same  year  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  and  served 
till  1864,  when  his  regiment  was  mustered  out  of  service.  Mr. 
Stiles  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army,  has  been  President  of 
the    Worcester  Eight    Infantry    Veteran   Association   for   four- 


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55 


teen  years,  is  a  Trustee  of  the  Worcester  Horticultural  Society, 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  Fraternity  and  an  honorary  member 
of  the  Society  of  Antiquity. 

Mrs.  Stiles  is  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  and 


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has  twice  been  its  patriotic  instructor.  She  is  an  annual  mem- 
ber of  the  Temporary  Home  and  Day  Nursery,  a  charitable 
society  of  Worcester.  She  has  no  children,  but  has  cared  for 
the  two  children  of  her  husband :  Frederick  W.  Stiles,  now  a 
photographer  located  at  Westerly,  R.  I.,  and  Hubert  A.  Stiles, 
who  is  in  the  steam  pipe  fitting  business  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Address :  M rs.  Frederick  G.  Stiles,  7  Harrington  Ave,  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 

Ardelia  Angier,  who  was  a  day  pupil  from  Worcester 
about  1852,  married  Mr.  White  and  died  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  in 
1902,  leaving  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Ellen  M.  Angier,  also  a  day  pupil  from  Worcester,  who 
attended  the  Oread  in  1852,  died  several  years  ago  in  Milan, 
Italy. 


Emma  R.  Babson,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  during 
the  school  year  1857-58,  was  born  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  March 
31,  1839,  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Emeline  D.  (Rogers) 
Babson  of  Gloucester.  She  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev. 
John    Rogers,   the   martyr,    who   was   burned   at   the   stake   in 


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Smithfield,  and  of  Rev.  John  Rogers,  D.D.,  one  of  the  Presi- 
dents of  Harvard  College.  A  third  ancestor  of  the  same  name 
was  Librarian  at  Harvard.  President  Rogers  married  Patience, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Dudley,  first  Governor  of  Massachusetts. 
One  of  their  descendants,  Daniel  Rogers,  was  Miss  Babson's 
great-grandfather  on  her  mother's  side,  and  great-great-grand- 
father on  her  father's  side.  He  was  the  father  of  twenty-one 
children.  His  first  wife,  Elizabeth  Gorham,  a  descendant  of 
the  Mayflower  Pilgrims,  John  and  Elizabeth  Tilley,  and  John 
Howland,  was  a  very  beautiful  woman.  Her  portrait  was 
painted  by  Copley,  and  was  on  exhibition  in  Boston  a  few 
years  ago. 

Among  Miss  Babson's  Revolutionary  ancestors  were  Colonel 
John  Low,  who  married  Sally,  daughter  of  Parson  Gee  of  the 
old  North  Church,  Boston,  and  Isaac  Somes,  commander  of 
the  sloop  Union  and  the  ship  Tempest. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Miss  Babson  returned  to  her  home 
in  Gloucester  and  lived  there  with  her  father  and  sister  until 
her  father's  death.  On  June  15,  1869,  she  was  married  in 
Gloucester  to  William  Hovey  Friend,  and  went  to  live  in  San 
Francisco,  Cal.,  where  Mr.  Friend  was  engaged  in  business. 
Mr.  Friend  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  and 
Postmaster  of  Oakland.  They  have  two  children ;  William 
Nathaniel,  born  April  5,  1870,  and  Roger  Berry,  born  Decem- 
ber 8,  1873.  William  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. He  studied  Law  at  the  Hastings  Law  School  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  but  afterward  graduated  at  the  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary  and  is  now  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Golden,  Col.  He  married  Anna  Coyle,  a  graduate 
of  Mills  College,  and  daughter  of  Rev.  Robert  F.  Coyle  of 
Denver,  and  they  have  one  son,  Robert  Coyle,  born  April  26, 
1904. 

Roger  Berry  Friend  is  a  wrell-known  insurance  man  in  San 
Francisco. 

Mrs.  Friend  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Ebell  Club,  the 
first  literary  society  formed  in  California,  now  numbering  five 
hundred  members,  and  was  also  a  charter  member  and  for  five 
years  Registrar  of  the  (  )akland  chapter  of  the  D.  A.  R.  She 
is  a  life  member  of  the  Ywnng  Woman's  Christian  Association, 
and  has  been  active  in  the  different  societies  connected  with  her 


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church,  as  well  as  in  the  charitable  institutions  of  Oakland. 
She  is  especially  interested  in  old  china,  of  which  she  has  a 
tine  collection,  and  has  written  articles  on  that  subject  for 
magazines.  She  has  also  written  many  articles  for  clubs, 
mostly  on  art, — including-  architecture,  painting,  etchings,  cer- 
amics, and  many  other  subjects. 

Address :  Airs.  William  H.  Friend,  222  Eleventh  St.,  Oak- 
land, Cal. 

Maria  Rogers  Babson,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Emeline 
Davis  (Rogers)  Babson,  and  sister  of  Emma  Babson,  was  born 
in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  April  12,  1840.  She  came  to  the  Oread 
from  Gloucester  in  September,   1857,  and  remained  one  term. 

Miss  Babson  removed  to  California  in  1870,  and,  with  the 
exception  of  several  visits  East,  has  resided  since  then  in  Oak- 
land. She  has  been  for  twenty-five  years  a  member  of  the 
Ebell  Club,  and  holds  the  office  of  Historian  in  that  society, 
is  actively  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Oakland  Y.  W.  C.  A., 
and  is  on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Oakland  Red  Cross 
Society.  She  is  at  present  State  Chairman  of  Reciprocity  in 
the  California  State  Federation  of  Clubs,  and  Vice  Regent  of 
the  Oakland  Chapter  of  the  D.  A.  R.,  in  which  society  she  has 
also  held  the  office  of  Regent.  She  is  President  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Society  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Oakland. 
She  has  frequently  written  papers  for  delivery  before  the  Ebell 
Club. 

Address:    1009  Madison  St.,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Laura  Jane  Bachelor  was  born  in  Xorthbridge,  Mass., 
September  17,  1833,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Joel,  Jr.,  and 
Laura  (  Goldthwait)  Bachelor.  Both  her  parents  were  of  pure 
English  ancestry.  Her  great-grandfather,  David  Bachelor,  was 
a  Major  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  descended  from 
Joseph  Bachelor,  a  Puritan  emigrant  from  Canterbury,  Eng- 
land, in  1636.  Joseph  Bachelor  was  prominent  in  the  affairs 
of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony. 

Miss  Bachelor  attended  the  Oread  in  1854,  and  afterwards 
a  private  school  in  Holliston,  Mass.,  giving  special  attention 
to  music,   which  she  taught  later. 


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J  AXE   AND    MARIA    BACHELOR 


She  was  in  Franklin,  N.  C,  at  the  hreaking  out  of  the  Civil 
War  in  1861.  Her  strong  Union  sympathies  made  her  a 
marked  personage  and  rendered  it  unsafe  for  her  to  remain 

in  the  South.  Her 
friends  being  nomi- 
nally Unionists  and 
of  some  influence 
she  was  tolerated  as 
she  would  not  have 
been  under  other 
circumstances.  But 
she  delayed  coming 
North  too  long  to 
be  able  to  do  so 
through  the  coast 
states.  She  was 
obliged  to  cross  the 
mountains,  escaping 
through  Tennessee  and  Kentucky  into  Ohio  by  means  of 
various  subterfuges,  one  being  a  kind  of  "underground  rail- 
way," arranged  and  executed  by  the  relatives  of  those  with 
whom  she  had  been  staying.  The  fact  that  she  was  a  woman 
served  her  in  good  stead,  in  ward- 
ing off  the  suspicions  that  a  man 
would  have  incurred  and  which 
would  have  caused  most  serious 
delays  in  her  progress  into  Ohio. 
In  Akron  she  found  relatives  and 
remained  with  them  for  a  while  to 
recover  from  the  effects  of  the 
exciting  and  perilous  journey. 

At  Northbridge,  on  June  3,  1869, 
she  was  married  to  George  W. 
Livermore,  a  clerk,  and  later  a  den- 
tist. He  was  also  a  skillful  taxi- 
dermist.    They  resided  for  a  while 

in  Iowa,  where  they  tenderly  cared  for  Mrs.  Livermore's  father 
and  mother  during  their  last  illness.  In  1884  they  went  to  live 
in  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.  Mrs.  Livermore  died  July  2y,  1894, 
and  her  husband  April   16,   1898,  leaving  no  children. 


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Maria  Frances  Bachelor  was  born  in  Northbridge3  Mass., 
May  7,  1835.  She  was  the  sister  of  Laura  Jane,  and  with 
her  attended  the  Oread  in  1854,  and  afterward  the  private 
school  in  Holliston.  She  taught  for  some  years  in  the  public 
schools  of  Northbridge,  and  in  the  midst  of  her  work  was 
stricken  down  by  a  disease,  from  which  she  never  recovered. 

She  died  in  Northbridge,  Mass.,  October  17,   1894. 

Esther  Hinckley  Baker  was  born  in  Boston.  February 
5,  1838.     Her  father,  Ezra  Howes  Baker,  a  native  of  Cape  Cod, 

was  a  well-known  and  honored  mer- 
chant of  his  day,  a  ship  owner  and 
importer.  Her  mother,  Esther  May 
(Hinckley)  Baker,  also  of  Cape  Cod, 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  two  of  the 
Mayflower  Pilgrims,  Elder  Brewster 
and  Stephen  Hopkins,  and  also  of 
Thomas  Prince,  Governor  of  Ply- 
mouth Colony. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  May, 
1853,  and  remained  two  years.  She 
afterwards  studied  for  a  year  in  a 
private  class  under  Rev.  Dr.  Clinch 
of  Boston. 
After  her  mother  died  she  was  her  father's  housekeeper  and 
companion  until  his  death,  in  1876, 
when,  her  brother  and  sisters  hav- 
ing married,  she  left  Boston,  to  stay 
with  her  friend,  Elizabeth  Dorrance 
Bugbee,  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  where 
she  has  since  remained,  making 
Providence  her  home. 

The  friendship  formed  at  the 
Oread  has  lasted  for  half  a  century, 
undimmed  by  the  slightest  cloud. 
Miss  Baker  has  been  "a  cheerful 
giver"    in  public  and  private. 

Address:  179  Hope  St.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. 

Exie  Baker  was  born  in  South  Dennis.  Mass.,  on  Cape 
Cod,  October  5,  1837.     She  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Judah 


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and  Experience  Baker.  While  she  was  quite  young  the  family 
removed  to  Boston,  where  she  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  completing  her  studies  at  the  Oread  in  1854.  In  i860, 
at  her  home  in  Boston,  she  was  married  to  Charles  E.  Jones, 
at  that  time  an  importer  of  foreign  fruits.  He  subsequently 
was  engaged  in  the  ownership  and  management  of  oil-wells 
in  Pennsylvania.  A  son,  Frank  Wellington,  was  born  to  them 
in  1862.  He  graduated  at  the  Boston  English  High  School, 
and  also  took  a  course  at  a  commercial  college.  He  had 
been  in  business  in  Alabama  for  eight  years,  as  treasurer  and 
general  manager  of  a  cotton  manufacturing  company,  when, 
in  1902,  he  died,  after  a  short  and  sudden  illness.  A  daughter, 
Helen  May,  was  born  in  1866.  Bier  education  was  begun  in 
the  Boston  public  schools,  and  finished  in  the  private  school 
of  Miss  Emily  J.  F.  Newhall.  In  1888  she  was  married  to 
Albert  B.  Merrill  of  the  Massachusetts  National  Bank,  Boston, 
and  has  one  son,  Donald  French  Merrill. 

Mrs.  Jones  has  been  especially  interested  in  working  for  the 
New  England  Peabody  Home  for  Crippled  Children. 

Address :  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Jones,  Rawson  Road,  Brookline, 
Mass. 

Julia  R.  Baldwin,  the  daughter  of  David  and  Amanda  M. 
(Hobbs)  Baldwin,  was  born  in  Nashua,  N.  H.,  on  Christmas 
Day,  1845,  ancl  came  to  the  Oread  from  Nashua  about  1855. 
She  suffered  from  a  long  illness  by  which  she  was  made  an 
invalid  for  nearly  fifteen  years,  and  finally  died  at  the  home 
of  her  sister,  Mrs.  David  Stevens,  of  Wilton,  N.  H.,  in 
July,   1885. 

Julia  M.  Ball,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  Septem- 
ber, 1851,  until  1855,  was  tne  daughter  of  Mason  Ball,  a  clergy- 
man, and  Orinda  (Bogue)  Ball.  She  was  born  at  Princeton, 
Mass.,  May  13,  1838. 

On  August  20,  1863,  she  was  married  at  Springfield,  Mass., 
to  Bradford  Morton  Fullerton,  a  clergyman.  Mr.  Fnllerton 
is  a  graduate  of  Amherst  I  A.B.  1861,  D.D.  1891)  and  received 
his  theological  training  at  Andover.  They  have  three  children: 
William  Morton,  born  September  18,  1865,  a  graduate  of  Har- 


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vard  in  1886,  is  a  correspondent  in  Paris,  France,  of  the 
London  Times;  Robert  Morton,  born  November  11,  1868,  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  in  1890,  married  Jane  Whitthorne  of  Fort 
Smith,  Ark.,  in  1892,  and  is  in  business  in  Boston;  Katharine 
Elizabeth,  born  February  6,  1879,  was  educated  at  Paris, 
France,  and  at  Miss  Folsom's  school,  Boston.  She  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Radcliffe  College,  spent  one  year  there  in  graduate 
study,  and  is  now  teaching  in  Byrn  Mawr  College. 

Mrs.  Fullerton  has  been  Director  of  the  Waltham  Woman's 
Club,  President  of  the  Brockton  Day  Xursery,  for  twenty  years 
Director  of  the  Woman's  Home  Missionary  Association,  and 
was  the  first  President  of  the  Brockton  Woman's  Club. 

Address:  Mrs.  Bradford  M.  Fullerton,  179  Belmont  St., 
Brockton,  Mass. 

Sarah  E.  Ball  was  born  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  August  31, 
1835.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Mason  and  Orinda  (Bogue) 
Ball,  and  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  during  the  greater  part  of 
the  time  from  185 1  to  1854.  She  was  married  at  Amherst, 
Mass.,  September  14,  1864,  to  Rev.  George  Whitefield  Phillips, 
D.D.  She  has  had  two  children:  Annie  Maud,  born  August 
28,  1865,  died  September  26,  1871,  at  Haydenville,  Mass.; 
LeRoy,  born  May  28,  1870,  graduated  at  Amherst  in  1892, 
and  married  Caroline  S.  King  in  1899. 

Address :  Mrs.  George  W.  Phillips,  23  Court  St.,  Rutland,  Vt. 

Amelia  M.  Bates,  daughter  of  Laban  and  Lydia  (Corn- 
stock)  Bates,  was  born  in  Blackstone,  Mass.,  in  1838.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  1854  and  remained  until  1856.  In  i860 
she  was  married  in  Blackstone  to  Marcien  Jenckes,  a  manu- 
facturer of  woolen  goods.  They  have  two  children :  a  daugh- 
ter, Annie  Amelia,  born  October  30,  1861,  graduated  from 
Mrs.  Richardson's  school  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  was  married 
to  Lewis  B.  Harding  of  Boston,  a  wool  broker;  a  son, 
Lawrence,  born  March  23,  1867,  graduated  as  Bachelor  of 
Philosophy  at  Yale  in  1887.  is  a  civil  engineer  by  profession, 
and  married  Alice  E.  Child  of  Boston. 

The  family  are  all  active  in  church  work.  Mr.  Jenckes, 
Senior,  is  a  vestryman  and  treasurer  of  St.  John's  Church  in 
Stamford,  Conn. 

Address:    Mrs.  Marcien  Jenckes,  Stamford,  Conn. 


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Ellen  M.  Belknap  was  born  in  Westboro,  Mass.,  June  24, 
1835.  Sbe  was  the  daughter  of  Lyman  Belknap  of  Westboro, 
and  Martha  (Morse)  Belknap,  a  native  of  Hopkinton.  Both 
families  were  of  Puritan  stock,  holding  places  of  honor  in  the 
towns  where  they  resided.  She  attended  the  Oread  in  1852-53, 
and  was  married  in  Westboro,  October  8,  1856,  to  Hon.  Calvin 
M.  Winch  of  Holden,  Mass.  Mr.  Winch  was  at  one  time 
State  Senator,  and  held  several  offices  of  trust  in  the  city  gov- 
ernment of  Boston,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Winch  lived  after 
their  marriage,  until  Mr.  Winch's  death,  on  September  14, 
1885.  Mrs.  Winch  had  no  children,  except  an  adopted  daugh- 
ter, her  niece,  Grace  Belknap,  who  was  married  to  Edward 
C.  Bates,  at  one  time  judge  of  the  district  court,  and  now  a 
lawyer  in  Boston.     They  reside  in  Westboro. 

While  in  Boston  Mrs.  Winch  was  one  of  the  Directors  of  the 
Home  for  Discharged  Female  Prisoners  at  Dedham,  the  South 
End  Diet  Kitchen,  Dr.  Baker's  Free  Hospital  for  Women,  and 
other  organizations  of  charity.  At  one  time  she  was  connected 
with  the  Provident  Association,  and  she  has  always  been  active 
in  her  own  church. 

Address :    Mrs.  Calvin  M.  Winch,  Westboro,  Mass. 

Harriet  Elizabeth  Bemis  attended  the  Oread  as  one  of 
its  very  earliest  students,  taking  her  place  in  1849  among  a 
few  other  day  pupils  from  the  city  of  Worcester.  She  was 
born  in  Spencer,  Mass.,  October  8,  183 1.  Her  parents  were 
William  and  Catherine  (Eveleth)  Bemis.  The  family  removed 
to  Worcester  when  she  was  a  child.  Here,  among  her  early 
pleasures,  were  frecment  excursions  with  her  companions  to  a 
rocky  ledge  outside  the  city,  called  Goat  Hill,  on  which  the 
Oread  was  afterwards  built. 

She  writes :  "When  I  was  ten  or  twelve  years  of  age  Goat 
Hill  was  a  favorite  resort  of  myself  and  schoolmates  for  gather- 
ing wild  flowers,  especially  the  wild  columbine,  which  grew 
there  very  abundantly,  and  which  was  nowhere  more  beautiful 
than  about  those  wild  ledges,  out  of  which  came  the  material 
for  Oread  Castle.  There  was  a  great  deal  of  wooded  land 
near  by,  and  it  was  altogether  an  ideal  place  for  such  an 
outing.  At  that  time  (from  1841  to  1843)  there  were  only  a 
lew    houses    between    the    Post    (  )ffice    (where    it    now    stands) 


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and  Goat  Hill.  As  there  was  no  public  conveyance,  we  walked 
the  distance  from  the  city,  and  when  we  reached  home,  we 
felt  we  had  made  a  pilgrimage." 

When  Miss  Bemis  entered  the  Oread  in  the  second  school 
term  of  1849,  onlv  tne  North  Tower 
was  built,  and  a  fine  view  was  af- 
forded over  the  open  country,  far 
and  near,  showing  the  wisdom  of  its 
founder  in  selecting  so  attractive  a 
spot  for  his  school. 

Having  commenced  thus  with  al- 
most the  earliest  beginnings  of  the 
Oread  life.  Miss  Bemis  continued  to 
identify  herself  with  its  subsequent 
history,  being  connected  with  it  more 
or  less  through  part  of  Mrs.  Curtis', 
and  part  of  Miss  Dodge's  adminis- 
trations.     From  the  time,   in   1849. 

when  she  and  two  other  pupils  formed  the  sole  members  of  a 
class  in  Algebra  and  Geometry,  reciting  to  Mr.  Thayer,  to  the 
time  when  she  became  teacher  of  Music  in  1854,  the  Oread 
developed  from  a  small  school  of  about  twenty  pupils,  to  a  large 
and  well  equipped  institution.  Her  musical  work  at  the  Oread 
was  continued  till  about  1857. 

On  June  20,  1867,  Miss  Bemis  was  married  to  Chauncey  G. 
Harrington,  who  has  been  for  some  years  a  retired  business  man 
of  Worcester. 

Address :  Mrs.  Chauncey  G.  Harrington,  972  Main  St., 
Worcester,  Mass. 


Adeline  Bisco,  daughter  of  Alden  and  Selinda  (Martin) 
Bisco,  was  born  in  Leicester,  Mass.,  November  3,  1836.  She 
attended  the  Oread  for  two  terms,  entering  in  the  spring  of 
185 1.  On  November  24,  1853,  she  was  married  in  Worcester 
to  Charles  A.  Whittemore,  and  died  at  Melrose,  Mass.,  June 


Laurinda  Bisco  was  born  in  Leicester,  Mass.,  August  16, 
1834.  She  was  the  sister  of  Adeline  Bisco,  and  attended  the 
Oread  with  her  for  two  terms  in   185 1.     On  October  2,  1855, 


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she  was  married  in  Worcester  to  Isaac  R.  Joslin.     They  have 
no  children. 

Address:  Mrs.  Isaac  R.  Joslin,  138  Prospect  Place,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. 

Julia  D.  Blake,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1854-55,  was 
the  daughter  of  George  and  Hannah  Ellis  (Rockwood)  Blake. 
In  1858,  in  Medway,  Mass.,  she  was  married  to  Stephen  Clark. 
Two  daughters  were  born  to  them  in  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  and 
a  son  in  Medway.  Most  of  her  life  has  been  spent  in  Massa- 
chusetts, but  she  now  resides  in  New  York  City,  having  with 
her  one  daughter  and  her  son,  all  that  remains  of  her  family. 

Address:  Mrs.  Stephen  Clark,  242  West  112th  St.,  New- 
York  City. 

Jane  Frances  Borden  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  C. 
and  Almariah  T.  Borden  of  New  Braintree,  Mass.  She  was 
born  in  New  Braintree,  August  25,  1839,  and  was  a  pupil  at 
the  Oread  from  1854  to  1856. 

Schoolmates  remember  her  as  a  lovely  girl,  refined  and  gentle 
of  manner,  and  a  brilliant  scholar.  She  died  of  consumption 
in  early  young  womanhood,  about  i860. 

Susan  Borden,  only  child  of  Rescom  and  Henrietta  (San- 
ford)  Borden,  was  born  September  10,  1837,  on  the  homestead 

farm  in  North  Westport,  near  Fall 
River,  Mass.,  which  her  father  in- 
herited from  his  great-grandfather, 
Richard  Borden.  Her  father  and 
mother  both  died  while  she  was 
very  young,  and  her  guardian, 
after  a  few  years,  placed  her  in 
a  family  boarding  school  in  Fair 
Haven,  Mass.  In  1854  she  entered 
the  Oread  and  remained  two  years. 
After  leaving  the  Oread,  she  was 
for  a  short  time  a  pupil  at  Wheaton 
Seminary.  In  1857  she  went  to 
Philadelphia,  where  she  attended  a 
course  of  lectures  at  the  Female  Medical  College. 

In    1858,  mi   her  twenty-first  birthday,   she  was  married  to 


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Samuel  Tripp  Sanford  of  Westport,  Mass.,  who  invented  a 
copper  punching  machine,  a  shingle  machine  and  other  valuable 
machinery. 

After  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sanford  went  to  Phila- 
delphia, she  to  take  a  second  course 
of  lectures,  and  he  to  matriculate  at 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  Med- 
ical School. 

In  1859  they  took  up  their  resi- 
dence in  Fall  River,  where,  on 
October  28  of  the  same  year,  their 
eldest  child,  Bordena,  was  born. 

In  1862  they  removed  to  the  home- 
stead farm  in  Westport. 

On  April  16,  1863,  a  second  daugh- 
ter, Charitta  Latona,  was  born,  and 
on  March  13.  1871,  a  third  daughter. 
Threlia    Dimple.      A    son,    Samuel 

Newton  Folius,  born  August  2,  1872,  graduated  at  the  Fall 
River  High  School,  attended  Harvard  University,  and  has  a 
position  in  a  cotton  broker's  office  in  Fall  River. 

The  daughters  were  educated  in  Fall  River,  and  at  Wheaton 
Seminary. 

Mr.  Sanford  died  in  1879.     Mrs.  Sanford  has  been  an  invalid 
for  many  years,  tenderly  cared  for  by  her  devoted  family. 

Address:    Mrs.  Susan  B.  Sanford,  74  Ridge  St.,  Fall  River, 
Mass. 


Caroline  Bowen,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1852,  was  born 
in  Worcester,  September  28,  183 1.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  Harris  and  Amelia  (Richardson)  Bowen,  and  was 
married  in  Worcester  to  Benjamin  Luther,  who  is  connected 
with  a  gentleman's  furnishing  store. 

Mrs.  Luther  died  some  vears  a«'o. 


Josephine  Edna  Branscomb,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  1854-56,  coming  from  Holyoke,  Mass.,  was  born 
March  15,  1838,  in  Newmarket,  N.  H.  Her  parents  were 
Arthur  and  Sarah  (Chapman)  Branscomb,  both  natives  of 
Newmarket. 


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She  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June  3,  1858,  to  John 
G.  Hill,  a  railroad  passenger  agent.  They  had  no  children. 
Mrs.  Hill  died  at  Denver,  Col.,  March  25,  1891. 

Susanna  B.  Brigham  was  horn  May  24,  1837,  in  Grafton, 
Mass.,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Annah  E.  Brigham. 
Captain  Charles  Brigham  of  Grafton  was  her  grandfather. 
She  attended  the  Oread  during  part  of  the  year  1854,  and 
after  leaving  school  was  a  teacher  of  Art,  until  her  marriage 
in  Grafton,  September  20,   i860,  to  William  F.   Merrifield. 

She  has  been  a  contributor  to  children's  papers,  and  has 
written  for  the  New  England  Magazine  and  other  magazines 
and  papers. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  F.  Merrifield,  34  Xaples  Road, 
Brookline,  Mass. 

Harriet  Hastings  Brown,  daughter  of  John  Frost  and 
Elizabeth  (Evans)  Brown,  was  born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  May 
6,  1842.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1856,  and 
remained  until  1859.  She  afterwards  attended  a  young  ladies 
school  in  Keene,  N.  H.  In  1867  she  was  married  at  her 
home  in  Concord  to  Passmore  Treadwell,  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon. During  the  Civil  War  he  served  in  the  Navy  as  volun- 
teer, holding  the  position  of  Assistant  Surgeon.  After  his 
marriage  he  left  the  Navy  and  practiced  surgery  in  Xew  York 
and  Brooklyn.  Later  he  was  stationed  in  Idaho  Territory  as 
Contract  Surgeon  for  the  United  States  Army.  Dr.  Treadwell 
died  at  Boise  City,  Idaho,  May  23,  1881. 

A  son,  John  Passmore,  who  was  born  in  Xew  York,  July 
18,  [868,  died  July  8,  1869.  A  daughter,  Elizabeth  Brown,  was 
born  in  Brooklyn,  July  8,  1870.  A  second  son,  Thomas  Percy, 
was  born  November  30,  1873,  in  Boise  City,  Idaho,  and  a  third 
son,  Robert  Hastings,  was  horn  in  Boise  City,  February  10, 
1875.  Elizabeth  graduated  from  the  Boston  Normal  Art 
School,  and  has  been  supervisor  of  drawing  in  the  public  schools 
of  Whitinsville,  Manchester,  Needham  and  Rockport,  Mass. 
The  two  surviving  sons  are  in  business  in  Boston  with  Carter, 
Rice  &  Co.,  wholesale  paper  dealers.  Both  are  married  and 
reside  near  I  toston. 

Address:  Mrs.  Harriet  B.  Treadwell,  [6  Willow  Ave.,  West 
Somerville,   Mass. 


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Mary  A.  Brown,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  '  >read  in  [855  56, 
entering  from  Millbury,  Mass.,  was  married  on  February  4, 
1869,  to  Amos  Armsby,  and  died  in  Millbury,  April   11,  1875. 


Dr.    O.    W. 

"A    Family 


Elizabeth    Dorrance    Bugbee,    only    daughter    of   James 

Henry   and   Maria    (Potter)    Bugbee,   was  horn   in   Pawtuxet, 

Warwick.  R.  I.,  April  10,  1835. 
Her  ancestry  is  in  every  line  early 
Colonial.  .Through  her  mother  she 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Roger 
Williams,  and  many  other  of  the 
earliest  settlers  of  Rhode  Island. 
Her  father's  great-grandfather.  Dr. 
David  Holmes  of  Woodstock, 
Conn.,  grandfather  of  Dr.  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  was  a  Captain 
in  the  French  and  English  War, 
under  King  George,  and  after- 
wards a  Surgeon  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary   Army.       In 

Holmes'    collection    of    poems,    the    one    entitled 

Record,"    gives  the  Holmes  Genealogy. 
Miss  Bugbee  entered  the  Oread 

in  1852,  and  left  in  1855. 

Since  i860  her  home  has  been  in 

Providence,  R.  I. 

Her  life  has  been  a  domestic  one. 

devoted  to  her  family  and  friends. 

With  them,  she  has  traveled  much. 

at  home  and  abroad,  and  the  years 

which   have   brought    sorrows    and 

losses  have  also  brought  blessings. 

For  charity  and  educational  work. 

she  has  done  what  she  could.     Her 

brothers    having    died,    she    is    the 

last   of    her    family,    but    with    the 

constant  companionship  of  her  Oread  friend.  Esther  11.   Baker, 

"Home  is  still  Home  and  the  world  bright." 
Address:    179  Hope  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 


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Sarah  Tully  Bugbee,  youngest  daughter  of  James  and 
Elizabeth  (Dorrance)  Bugbee,  who  both  descended  from  early 
colonists    of    New    England,    was    born    in  Thompson,    Conn., 

October  29,  1836.  She  was  at  the 
Oread  in  1852.  On  December  27, 
1858,  she  was  married  at  the  home 
of  her  sister  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
to  William  Torrey  Harris,  Yale 
College  1858,  a  native  of  Killingly, 
Conn.,  but  then  of  St.  Louis,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  teaching.  He 
was  afterwards  Superintendent  of 
Public  Schools  in  St.  Louis,  and 
editor  and  publisher  of  the  Journal 
of  Speculative  Philosophy.  He  is 
now,  and  has  been  for  many  years, 
United  States  Commissioner  of  Edu- 
cation. Dr  Harris  has  received  the  degrees  of  A.M.  (1869), 
and  of  LL.D.  (1895)  from  Yale;  of  Ph.D.  (  1893)  from  Brown 
University,  and  of  LL.D.  from  the  universities  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, Missouri  and  Princeton.  He 
received  at  the  Paris  Exposition  of 
1878,  the  title  of  "Officio-  de 
l' Academic,"  and  at  that  of  1889, 
"Officio-  de  f Instruction  Publiquc" 
Her  four  children  were  born  in 
St.  Louis :  Theodore,  born  Septem- 
ber 12,  1859,  is  a  lawyer  in  San  An- 
tonio, Texas,  is  married,  and  has 
four  children,  has  been  a  State 
Senator,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
San  Antonio  School  Board  ;  Char- 
lotte, born  in  1862,  and  Ethan  Allen, 
born  in  1864,  died  in  early  child- 
hood; Edith  Davidson,  born  August  6,  1875,  lives  at  home. 
With  the  exception  of  a  few  years  spent  in  Concord,  Mass., 
and  an  occasional  journey  abroad,  Mrs.  Harris  has  passed  her 
married  life  in  St.  Louis  and  Washington,  D.  C. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  T.  Harris,  1300  Yale  St.,  Wash- 
ington, I ).  C. 


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Jane  Bullard,  who  was  at  the  Oread  in  1853-54,  was  horn 
in  Wendell,  Mass.,  January  23,  1833,  the  daughter  of  Elias 
and  Betsey  (Howe)  Bullard.  On  February  29,  i860,  she  was 
married  at  Petersham,  Mass.,  to  Sumner  J.  Brooks,  a  merchant. 
Their  children  are :  Abbie  E..  born  in  Framingham,  Mass.,  June 
21,  1861  ;  Jennie  F.,  born  in  Cambridge.  Mass.,  June  20,  1866, 
and  Sumner  A.,  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  January  21,  1868. 

Address:  Mrs.  Sumner  J.  Brooks,  1764  Massachusetts  Ave., 
Cambridge,  Mass. 

Almira  S.  Burbank,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Chloe 
(Stevens)  Burbank  of  Lancaster.  Mass.,  was  born  in  North- 
boro,  Mass.,  October  2^,  1834.  Her  father  was  a  Baptist  min- 
ister and  was  descended  from  Pilgrim  ancestry. 

After  leaving  the  Oread,  where  she  was  a  pupil  in  1850-51, 
Miss  Burbank  attended  the  Westfield  Normal  School,  and  then 
taught  for  ten  years  or  more  in  the  district  schools  of  Bolton, 
Harvard,  Lancaster  and  Woburn,  Mass.  When  her  father's 
health  failed  she  returned  home  and  cared  for  him  until  his 
death,  and  then  for  her  mother;  after  whose  death,  fifteen  years 
later,  in  1885,  she  went  to  Brandon,  Yt.,  to  live  with  her  aunt, 
whose  husband  was  for  forty  years  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church 
in  Brandon.  She  remained  as  caretaker  in  their  home  as  long 
as  they  lived.  Then  she  had,  for  six  years,  an  official  position 
in  "The  Western,"  a  young  woman's  college  in  Oxford,  Ohio, 
and  afterwards  was  caretaker  in  a  family  which  consisted  of 
three  invalids.  She  remained  here  until  the  home  was  broken 
up  by  death,  and  since  then  has  lived  with  friends  and  relatives. 

She  has  written  papers  for  the  Woman's  Club,  to  which  she 
belongs,  and  articles  for  the  School  Magazine  in  (  )xford. 

Address  :    Still  River,  Mass. 

Ellen  Eliza  Bush,  daughter  of  Wilder  and  Clarissa  Davis 
(Gibson)  Bush,  was  born  in  Northboro,  Mass.,  August  4,  1833. 
She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1852.  After  leaving  she 
taught  music,  and  served  for  a  while  as  organist  at  the  Uni- 
tarian Church  in  Xorthboro. 

On  June  10,  1856,  she  was  married  in  Xorthboro  to  Arthur 
Currier  Blanchard.  They  had  four  children :  Pauline  Louise, 
born  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  April  22,  1860,  was  married  February 
12,  1890,  to  Charles  Parker  Schofr ;    twin  sons,  Arthur  Bush, 


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and  Wilder  Bush,  were  born  February  9,  1866,  in  South  Fram- 
ing-ham, Mass. ;  Lilian  Davis  was  horn  May  6,  1868,  at  South 
Framingham. 

Mrs.  Blanchard  died  in  South  Framingham,  January  16,  1884. 

Ellen  Frances  Capron,  daughter  of  Collins  and  Caroline 
(Silsby)  Capron,  was  born  October  2,  1830,  in  Mendon  Village 
(now  Blackstone),  Mass.  She  was  the  first  pupil  enrolled  at 
the  Oread.  At  Millville,  August  2,  1854,  she  was  married  to 
Frederic  Augustus  Holden,  an  accountant.  He  was  appointed 
a  justice  by  Governor  Lloyd  Lowndes  of  Maryland,  and  is 
now  clerk  in  the  General  Land  Office,  in  the  Interior  Depart- 
ment at  Washington.  Their  three  children,  Augustus  Randall, 
Lewis  Francis  and  John  Greene,  were  all  graduated  from  the 
High  School  in  Washington. 

Address :    Mrs.  Frederic  A.  Holden,  Hyattsville,  Maryland. 

Mary  Capron,  youngest  daughter  of  Collins  and  Caroline 
(Silsby)  Capron,  entered  the  Oread  in  the  early  fifties,  and  was 
a  pupil   for  several  years,  leaving  at  the  close  of   1854.     One 

of  her  sisters  was  the  wife  of  Hon. 
Fli  Thayer,  founder  of  the  Institute. 
On  May  9,  1855,  at  her  home  in 
Millville,  Mass.,  she  was  married  to 
William  Olney  Mason  of  Woon- 
socket,  R.  I.,  who  for  many  years 
has  been  debarred  from  business 
pursuits  by  the  loss  of  sight.  They 
have  four  children  :  William  Collins, 
born  July  18,  1856,  is  at  present  City 
Clerk  of  Wroonsocket ;  Fred  Olney, 
born  February  19,  1859,  ^s  now 
connected  with  the  Hood  Rubber 
Mills  at  East  Watertown,  Mass. ; 
Herbert  Capron,  born  January  (\  1861,  married  Annie  Jenckes 
of  Woonsocket,  and  is  Superintendent  of  the  Hood  Rubber 
Works  at  East  Watertown  ;  Caroline  Rebecca,  born  December 
3,  1872,  was  married  to  Berton  Williams,  a  graduate  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  and  an  electrician,  and  son  of  Bernette  Hill 
Williams,  an  (  )read  of  1856. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  O.  Mason.  115  Blackstone  St., 
Woonsocket,  R.  I. 


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Marietta  C.  Carr,  only  child  of  Henry  W.  Carr  of  Somers- 
worth,  N.  H.,  and  Martha  C.  (Curtis)  Carr  of  Roxbury,  Mass., 
was  born  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  in  1838.  She  attended  the  Oread 
in  1852.  In  1862  she  was  married  in  Brookline  to  Walstein 
R.  Chester  of  New  London,  Conn.,  a  commission  merchant, 
dealing  in  lumber.  They  have  had  five  children:  Harry  C, 
born  in  1863,  in  New  London,  who  is  married  and  engaged 
in  business  with  his  father;  Mitchell  S.,  born  in  1872;  W. 
Murray,  born  in  1875,  wno  died  in  youth;  Mabel  C,  born  in 
Brookline  in  1865,  and  Florence  H.,  born  at  the  same  place  in 
1868.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chester  and  their  two  daughters  reside 
in  the  house  which  formerly  belonged  to  Mrs.  Chester's  father 
and  mother,  and  where  Mrs.  Chester  spent  her  childhood  and 
girlhood. 

Address:  Mrs.  Walstein  R.  Chester,  239  Walnut  St.,  Brook- 
line, Mass. 


Caroline  M.  Cheney,  was  born  in  Barre,  Mass.,  February 
23,  1834,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Eclson  D.  and  Sarah  B. 
(  Shattuck)  Cheney.  She  attended 
the  Oread  in  1852-53.  On  Novem- 
ber 14,  1854,  she  was  married  to 
Charles  B.  Eaton,  a  merchant.  They 
have  had  three  daughters :  Alice 
Carrie,  born  at  Worcester,  March 
8,  1859,  Avas  married  to  Fred  N. 
Cook,  resides  with  her  mother,  and 
has  one  son,  who  is  in  Clark  Col- 
lege; Cora  Belle,  born  at  Worces- 
ter, October  15,  1870,  graduated  at 
the  High  School  in  Worcester  and 
then  taught  in  a  kindergarten,  was 
married  to  W.  H.   Nelson,  and  has 

two  sons;    Grace  Cheney,  born  at  Worcester,  August  12,  1876, 
died  August  25,  1877. 

Address:    Mrs.  Charles  B.  Eaton,  5  Lagrange  St.,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 


Mary  S.  and  Elizabeth  A.  Clapp,  daughters  of  David 
Clapp  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Tucker,  were  born  in  Dorchester,  in  the  old  homestead,  where 


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their  father  was  born,  and  close  by  the  birth-place  of  many 
generations  of  ancestors.  The  street  upon  which  they  now  live, 
called  "Salcombe,"  named  for  the  old  home  in  England,  whence 
the  family  came  to  New  England,  runs  through  what  was  once 
the  orchard  of  their  grandsire,  David  Clapp.  Their  father  was 
a  descendant  of  Nicholas  Clapp,  who  came  to  Dorchester  in 
1633.  His  father  and  grandfather,  both  named  David,  were 
engaged  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  They  assisted  in  throw- 
ing up  the  fortifications  on  Dorchester  Heights,  which  eventually 

caused  the  evacuation  of  Boston  by 
the  British,  and  were  on  active  duty 
for  most  of  the  time,  until  independ- 
ence was  secured.  Through  mater- 
nal ancestry,  David  Clapp  was  a 
descendant  of  Mary  Eliot,  sister  of 
John  Eliot,  Apostle  to  the  Indians. 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Tucker)  Clapp, 
their  mother,  was  descended  from 
Robert  Tucker,  one  of  the  early  col- 
onists of  Milton,  Mass.  Major-Gen- 
eral Humphrey  Atherton,  another 
ancestor  from  England,  came  to 
Dorchester  in  1635.  Their  great- 
grandfather, Captain  Bartholomew  Trow,  held  commission  in 
Sir  William  Pepperell's  Army  at  Louisburg  in  1745.  Their 
grandfather,  of  the  same  name,  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  In  1839  the  Clapp  family  removed  from  Dor- 
chester to  South  Boston,  and  remained  there  till  1895,  when 
they  returned  to  their  old  homestead,  where  the  sisters  now 
reside. 

Alary  S.  Clapp  was  born  June  6,  1836.  She  attended  the 
public  schools  in  South  Boston,  taking  a  Boston  medal  in  185 1, 
at  her  graduation  from  the  Grammar  School.  She  then  spent 
one  year  at  Miss  Burrell's  Seminary  for  Young  Eadies  in  South 
Boston,  under  the  instruction  of  Miss  Lydia  B.  Felton,  sister  of 
President  Felton  of  Harvard.  In  the  fall  of  1852,  she  entered 
the  lioston  Normal  School,  then  just  founded,  being  one  of  its 
first  class  of  104  pupils. 

It  was  during  her  first  year  in  this  school  that  she  met  Miss 
II.   I'.   Dodge,  then  a  substitute  teacher  at  the  Xormal  School, 


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but  already  engaged  to  become  Preceptress,  in  the  fall  of 
T853,  at  the  Oread.  Attracted  by  Miss  Dodge's  superior 
qualifications  as  teacher,  Miss  Clapp,  at  this  time,  resolved  to 
follow  her,  and,  having  finished  the  course  at  the  Normal 
School,  she  entered  the  Oread  in  1854,  where  she  remained 
nearly  two  years.  She  would  have  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1856,  but  was  obliged,  on  account  of  ill  health,  to  relinquish 
all  study  a  short  time  before  graduation.  She  writes,  "If 
I  failed  to  carry  away  a  diploma,  I  carried  with  me  into 
all  my  future  life  many  golden 
friendships,  which  have  brightened 
and  enriched  it." 

A  quiet  home  life  followed  till 
1 86 1,  when  Miss  Dodge  opened  a 
Boarding  and  Day  School  at  Cod- 
man  Hill,  in  Dorchester,  and  Miss 
Mary  Clapp  was  her  assistant  for 
about  two  years. 

The  latter  part  of  her  life  has 
been  quiet  and  uneventful,  having 
been  passed  within  the  precincts  of 
the  home,  with  her  parents  ( whose 
deaths  occurred  at  an  advanced  age, 
in  1893)  and  with  her  Oread  sis- 
ter, and  also  a  brother,  who  with  his  four  young  motherless 
children  became  a  member  of  the  family  upon  the  death  of  his 
wife  in  1881. 

Elizabeth  A.  Clapp  was  born  April  9,  1839.  She  spent  much 
of  her  life  in  South  Boston,  where  she  attended  school,  until 
1854,  when  she  entered  the  Oread.  Here  she  remained  two 
years ;  afterwards  she  studied  two  years  in  a  private  class  with 
Rev.  Dr.  Clinch  in  Boston. 

She  then  devoted  herself  to  the  study  of  art,  and  painted 
both  landscapes  and  portraits.  Among  the  life-size  portraits 
done  by  her  were  those  of  four  clergymen  of  St.  Matthew's 
Church  in  South  Boston,  and  several  of  the  patrons  and  mem- 
bers of  the  Danvers  (Massachusetts)  Historical  Society,  to  be 
hung  upon  the  walls  of  their  new  hall  in  Danvers.  Among 
these  were  General  Moses  Porter,  Rev.  G.  W.  Porter,  D.D., 
Rev.  Alfred  Putnam,  D.D.,  and  the  poet,  John  G.  Whittier. 


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In  the  pursuit  of  her  art  work,  in  assisting"  in  the  care  of 
younger  generations  of  her  family,  and  in  aiding  in  the  work 
of  her  church  and  Sunday  School,  her  life  has  been  pleasantly 
and  usefully  passed. 

Address :    24  Salcombe  St.,  Dorchester,  Mass. 


Mary  J.  Clark,  daughter  of  John  Flavel  Clark  of  Wor- 
cester, was  born  in  Worcester,  January  2,  1832.  Her  great- 
grandfather,   Captain    John    Clark    of    Hubbardston,    Mass., 

assisted  in  establishing  American 
Independence,  acting  as  legislator, 
and  member  of  the  Committee  of 
Correspondence,  Safety  and  Inspec- 
tion, and  later  as  member  of  the 
First  and  Second  Provincial  Con- 
gresses of  Massachusetts. 

She  was  educated  at  Miss  Steam's 
private  school,  at  Bradford  Acad- 
emy and  at  the  Oread.  During  the 
year  1852-53,  she  taught  at  the 
latter  institution,  having  classes  in 
Physiology  and  Hygiene,  and  other 
of  the  English  branches,  and  assist- 
ing when  called  upon  in  the  Latin  and  Mathematics  classes. 
In  1853  she  went  South  and  became  the  Principal  of  a  Young 
Ladies'  Seminary  in  Central  Georgia. 
After  several  years  of  successful 
teaching  she  met  Moses  Wadley,  an 
enterprising  manufacturer  and  rail- 
road contractor,  to  whom  in  i860, 
at  her  father's  house  in  Worcester, 
she  was  married.  Returning  to  the 
Smith,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wadley  passed 
through  the  long  and  trying  years 
of  the  Civil  War,  in  Louisiana  and 
Georgia,  where  five  children  were 
born  to  them:  Lydia  C,  born  in 
Louisiana  in  [861,  was  married  in 
1896  to  S.  C.  Allen  of  Augusta,  Ga. ; 

Moses   I).,  born  in    18(14,  was  educated  in  Virginia;    Mary  H., 
born  in    [866,  was  married  in  1896  to  C.  C.  Clark  of  Augusta, 


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Ga.,  and  died  in  1902.  leaving  three  children;  William  M., 
horn  in  1869,  was  educated  in  New  Jersey.  The  two  sons  are 
business  men  in  Augusta.  A  third  daughter,  Xellie,  remains 
at  the  home  in  Sand  Hills. 

Mrs.  Wadley  has  been  a  most  active  member  of  many 
religious,  educational  and  missionary  organizations,  an  ardent 
church  worker,  and  devoted  to  all  charitable  enterprises.  She 
has  cultivated  her  intellectual  tastes  and  found  time  and  oppor- 
tunity to  use  her  pen.  For  many  years  she  has  been  a  corre- 
spondent of  the  South  Western  Presbyterian,  published  in  New 
Orleans,  La.  Mr.  Wadley  died  in  1887,  at  his  home  in  Sand 
Hills,  the  well-known  suburb  of  Augusta. 

Address :  Mrs.  Alan-  J.  Wadley,  Sand  Hills.  Augusta, 
Georgia. 


Pernella   Eliza    Clark,   daughter  of  Robert   B.  and  Eliza 
(Hews)    Clark,   was  born  in   Canaan,   N.   H.,   April  29,    1834. 
Both  of  her  grandfathers   were  officers  in  the   Revolutionary 
Arm}',  and  her  grandfather  on  her 
mother's  side  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Hanover,  N.  H. 

Miss  Clark  was  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  the  year  1850-51.  After 
leaving  school  she  taught  in  Man- 
chester, N.  H.,  and  in  other  places 
for  several  years,  and  then  engaged 
in  business  until  her  marriage, 
February  22,  1871,  to  Freeman 
Wight,  a  Boston  merchant. 

She  has  two  children  :  Freeman 
Clark,  born  on  June  28,  1872,  and 
Robert  Franklin,  born  September 
2.  1882.  Both  are  Harvard  graduates,  and  both  are  married. 
The  elder  is  engaged  in  business  with  his  father,  and  the 
younger  is  in  the  Harvard  Law  School. 

Mrs.  Wight's  name  was  enrolled  as  a  Daughter  of  the 
American  Revolution  among  the  first  of  that  society  in  Con- 
cord, N.  H.     She  belongs  to  several  local  clubs,  and  has  been 


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interested  in  charity  work  in  a  quiet  way.     She  has  traveled 
quite  extensively. 

Address:  Mrs.  Freeman  Wight,  21  Mayfair  St.,  Roxbury, 
Mass. 

Ellen  M.  Clifford,  daughter  of  Warner  and  Lorinda  (Hart- 
well )  Clifford,  was  born  in  Fitzwilliam,  X.  H..  June  7,  1835. 
She  was  at  the  Oread  in  1853-54. 

On  November  10,  1857,  she  was  married  in  Worcester  to 
George  C.  Bigelow,  a  banker.  After  her  husband's  death  she 
was  again  married  on  May  20.  1861,  to  Samuel  T.  Bigelow. 
He  was  also  engaged  in  banking.  She  had  three  children  by 
her  second  husband :  George  Clifford,  born  December  18,  1862, 
died  December  31,  1881  ;  Grace  M.,  born  July  7,  1871,  educated 
in  the  Worcester  schools,  and  in  Miss  Salisbury's  School  in 
Pittsfield,  Mass..  was  married  October  18,  1897,  to  Walter  J. 
Denny,  and  resides  in  Boston;  Alice  M..  who  was  born  March 
14,  1877,  educated  in  private  schools  in  Worcester,  and  at 
Miss  Porter's  School  in  Springfield,  was  married  October  26, 
1898,  to  J.  William  Buzzell,  resides  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  and 
has  two  children. 

After  Mr.  Bigelow's  death  Mrs.  Bigelow  was  married  a  third 
time,  on  November  20,  1883.  to  John  D.  Lovell,  a  banker.  Mrs. 
Lovell  has  lent  support  to  such  forms  of  charitable  wrork  as 
from  time  to  time  have  appealed  to  her. 

Address :  Mrs.  John  D.  Lovell,  88  Thorndike  St.,  Brook- 
line,  Mass. 

Henrietta  M.  Clifford  was  a  sister  of  Ellen  Clifford.  In 
1857  she  was  married  to  James  H.  Freeland  and  died  in  1859, 
leaving  a  son  three  months  old. 

Maria  L.  Clinton  was  born  in  Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  and  was  a 
day  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  April  till  November,  1853.  Her 
father  was  Charles  H.  Clinton,  whose  father,  Henry  Clinton, 
was  a  Revolutionarv  soldier.  Her  mother's  maiden  name  was 
Sally  Hill. 

Miss  Clinton  was  married  at  Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  on  January  9, 
1855,  to  Lucius  Lane,  who  is  not  now  living.     Mr.  Lane  was 


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a  farmer,  and  held  the  office  of  County  Supervisor.  They  had 
three  children :  Charles,  Carrie  and  William,  all  born  in  Ripon, 
Wise.  Carrie  is  a  graduate  of  Iowa  College,  is  married  and 
lives  in  New  York;  William  is  now  in  Manila,  P.  I.,  with  a 
company  which  is  engaged  in  enlarging"  the  harbor. 

Mrs.  Lane  is  a  member  of  the  Cultns  Club,  and  does  some 
literary  work  in  her  local  reading  circle. 

Address:     Mrs.   Maria   C.   Lane,   Charles   City,    Iowa. 


Adelaide  Sophronia  Collier,  daughter  of  Francis  A.  and 
Eliza  (  Humes)  Collier,  was  born  in  Sturbridge,  Mass.,  October 
6,  1837.  She  was  at  the  Oread  in  1856.  She  was  married 
November  21,  1861,  in  the  city  of 
Worcester,  to  Charles  E.  Parker 
of  Holden,  Mass.,  a  farmer  and 
florist.  Mr.  Parker  has  held  many 
positions  of  honor  and  trust,  as  a 
Selectman,  Member  of  School  Com- 
mittee, Trustee  of  Damon  Public 
Library  and  of  the  Agricultural  and 
Horticultural  Societies  of  Worces- 
ter, and  as  a  District  Representative 
in  the  General  Court.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Parker  have  five  children : 
Samuel  Perry,  born  December  30, 
1862,  married  Isabel  A.  Thomas  of 

Spartanburg,  S.  C. ;  Jennie  Mabel,  born  June  12,  1864.  studied 
at  Foster's  Business  College,  and  married  Albert  O.  Condon 
of  Holden;  Frank  Carlton,  born  August  10,  1869,  attended 
Worcester  Academy,  and  married  Luella  A.  Potter  of  Holden ; 
Charles  Henry,  born  July  10,  1 87 1 ,  studied  at  Amherst  Agri- 
cultural College,  and  married  Inez  Jordan  of  Holden;  Alice 
Louise,  born  September  29,  1873,  graduated  at  Holden  High 
School,  and  married  Fred  E.  Ladd  of  Worcester. 

Address :     Mrs.    Charles    E.    Parker,    Station    A,    Worces- 
ter,   Mass. 


Julia  E.  Converse  was  born  in  Stafford.  Conn.,  April  2y, 
1839.  On  April  27,  1859,  sne  was  married  to  Yashni  Warner, 
and  died  of  consumption  August  6,  1862. 


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Emily    A.    Crawford   was  born  at  Oakham,  Mass.,  January 

29,  1834.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Laureston  Faulkner  and  Caro- 
line R.  (Cummings)  Crawford. 
Her  great-grandfather,  Alexander 
Crawford,  came  to  this  country 
when  he  was  three  years  old,  and 
after  his  marriage  his  family  with 
eight  others  settled  the  town  of 
Oakham. 

Emily  A.  Crawford  entered  the 
Oread  in  1851,  and  attended  for  two 
years.  After  leaving  she  taught 
for  several  years,  until  her  mar- 
riage September  18,  1855,  to  Wil- 
liam S.  Crawford,  a  carriage  man- 
ufacturer and  leading  citizen  of 
Oakham,  who  is  Justice  of  the 
Peace  and  holds  several  town  of- 
fices. They  had  one  daughter, 
Lillian  Emily,  born  February  14, 
1862.  She  was  married  to  Frank 
S.  Conant,  a  merchant  and  jeweller 
of  Oakham,  September  13,  1883, 
and  has  three  children,  all  born 
at  Oakham :  Roger,  born  Septem- 
ber 16,  1884;  Mabel  Emily,  born 
January  19,  1888;  Mary  Cornelia, 
born  October  8,   1890. 

Mrs.  Crawford  died  at  Oakham,  June  11,  1863. 


Sarah  A.  B.  Crossman,  daughter  of  Henry  Wheeler 
Crossman  of  Boylston,  Mass.,  and  Rebecca  A.  A.  (Ayers) 
Crossman  of  Boston,  was  born  in  Epping,  N.  H.,  in  1833.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  1850,  and  left  in  1853,  finishing  her  studies 
later  at  the  State  Normal  School.  She  was  afterwards  engaged 
in  teaching  English  and  Music. 

On  December  31,  1859,  at  Clinton,  Mass.,  she  was  married 
to  James  M.  Grover,  a  dentist.  Their  children  are :  Ralph 
Ayers,  born  in  Clinton.  (  )ctober  16,  i860,  a  graduate  of  Brook- 


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field   High   School,   was  married  January   7,    1899,  at  (  kikland. 
Cal.,  to  Harriet  M.   Baker,  and  is  at  present  on  the  editorial 

staff  of  the  San  Francisco  Call; 
Lydia  Lyon,  born  in  Clinton,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1862,  a  graduate  of  the 
Brookfield  High  School  and  the 
Boston  Conservator}-  of  Music,  has 
taught  elocution,  and  resides  in 
San  Francisco;  James  Madison, 
born  in  Clinton,  November  29, 
1864.  a  graduate  of  the  Brook- 
field  High  School,  and  a  mercan- 
tile traveler,  married  at  Bangor, 
Me.,  November  13,  1886,  Anna  A. 
Chaney,  and  resides  in  Boston; 
Henry  Crossman,  born  in  Brook- 
field,  December  22,  1868,  and  a  graduate  of  the  High  School  and 
the  Normal  Art  School  in  Boston,  served  in  the  Cuban  War 
under  General  Ludlow,  and  is  at 
present  an  artist,  with  studio  in 
Boston ;  Paul  Frothingham,  born 
December  1,  1870,  and  educated  in 
Brookfield,  is  now  a  merchant  in 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he  mar- 
ried in  August,  1898,  Katharine 
Murphey  of  Los  Angeles;  Ezra 
Lampson,  born  November  1,  1873, 
a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College 
and  editor  of  the  Shoe  and  Leather 
Reporter,  married  September  5, 
1900,  Julia  N.  Aspinwall  of  New- 
ark, N.  J. 

Mrs.  Grover  has  assisted  in  the  work  of  the  W.  C.  T.  I'., 
and  the  charitable  organizations  of  the  church  with  which  she 
is  connected. 

Address:   Mrs.  James  M.  Grover,  Brookfield,  Mass. 


Phebe  L.  Cull  attended  the  Oread  from  January  to  June, 
1857.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  she  left  Worcester,  her  home 
at  that  time,  and  for  some  years  afterward  combined  or  alter- 
nated studv  and  teachine-. 


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Before  the  Civil  War  ended  she  went  to  Little  Rock,  Ark., 
where  she  taught  in  a  school  for  the  colored  people,  having  on 
her  roll  of  six  hundred  the  names  not  only  of  boys  and  girls, 
but  also  of  men  and  women  of  all  ages.  She  left  this  school 
a  vear  after  the  close  of  the  war  and  taught  for  four  years 
in  Milwaukee  Female  College.  In  1 871  she  went  to  Turkey,  as 
a  missionary  under  the  American  Board,  and  has  spent  a  happy, 
busy  and  useful  life  there  in  Christ's  service. 

Her  present  address  is  Marsovan,  Turkey-in-Asia. 

Susan  A.  Damon,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Aloney 
(Chenery)  Damon,  was  born  May  7,  1833,  in  Holden,  Mass. 
She  was  at  the  Oread  in  185 1,  and  afterwards  attended  Maple- 
wood  Institute,  Pittsfield,  Mass.  On  October  15,  1861,  at 
Holden,  she  was  married  to  S.  C.  Gale,  a  graduate  of  Yale 
College  in  the  class  of  1854.  Two  sons,  Edward,  born  August 
21,  1862,  and  Charles,  born  November  24,  1873,  are  also  grad- 
uates of  Yale.  Three  daughters,  Alice,  born  December  9, 
1864.  Anna,  born  April  3,  1868,  and  Marian,  born  April  1, 
1871,  are  graduates  of  Smith  College.  Mr.  Gale's  business  is  in 
real  estate. 

Address:  Mrs.  S.  C.  Gale,  68  South  nth  St.,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 


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Susan  Caroline  Darling,  daugh- 
ter of  Newbury  and  Olive  (Kelly) 
Darling,  was  born  in  Easthampton, 
Conn.,  January  22,  1834.  Her  mother 
was  a  sister  of  Abby  Kelly  Foster,  the 
noted  Abolitionist.  She  was  one  of 
the  first  pupils  at  the  Oread,  entering 
in  1840.  Her  early  home  was  in 
Millville,  Mass.,  where  her  father  en- 
gaged in  manufacturing.  The  family 
removed  in  1866,  to  Mendon,  where 
she  resided  until  the  death  of  her 
parents,  when  she  took  up  her  resi- 
orcester.       She  died   in   that   citv  on   Februarv    18, 


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Elizabeth  Bancroft  Dickinson  was  born  in  Amherst, 
Mass.,  February  23,  1831.  Her  father  was  Nathan  Dickinson, 
and  her  mother  Mary  Ann  Taylor,  a  descendant  of  Governor 
John  Haynes  of  Connecticut,  and  Mabel  Harlakenden  of  Eng- 
land. She  spent  a  year  at  the  Oread,  entering  in  1852.  After- 
wards she  was  for  one  year  at  Auburndale  Seminary.  She  has 
been  able  to  spend  much  time  in  travel  in  her  own  country  and 
in  Europe.  Her  headquarters  are  in  Romeo,  Mich.,  where  she 
comes  and  goes  with  the  seasons,  interested  and  helpful  in 
many  forms  of  benevolent  and  uplifting  work. 

Address :    Romeo,  Mich. 


Emma  J.  Dickinson,  who  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1854,  was  born 
in  Worcester  in  1838.  Her  father 
was  Henry  B.  Dickinson,  born  in 
Amherst,  and  her  mother  Esther 
(Thayer)  Dickinson,  born  in  Bel- 
chertown. 

On  April  24,  1862,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  William  A.  Newland,  a  dry 
goods  merchant.  Mr.  Newland  died 
in  1804.  Their  only  child,  Eliza- 
beth, born  in  Worcester  April  6, 
1864,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Wor- 
cester High  School,  and  was  mar- 
ried to  Dr.  W.  T.  Souther  of  Wor- 
cester October  5,  1887,  at  the 
famous  old  Salisbury  Mansion  in 
Worcester,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Newland  lived  for  twenty-five 
years.  Mrs.  Souther  has  three 
daughters,  Elizabeth,  Gertrude  and 
Christine.  The  two  oldest  are 
pupils  in  the  Worcester  High 
School. 

Address :    Mrs.  Emma  D.  New- 
land,  26  Lincoln  St.,  Worcester. 


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Eleanor  J.  Doane  was  born  in  Spencer,  Mass.,  June  8, 
1834.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Cheney  and  Lorinda  (Green) 
Doane.  The  Doane  family  trace  their  lineage  to  the  reign  of 
King  John  of  England,  1  [99,  through  Sir  John  Doane,  and  later 
through  John  Doane,  Deacon  of  Mr.  Robinson's  church  in  Ply- 
mouth, who  was  of  the  Governor's  Council  in  1632  and  1633. 

Eleanor  Doane  entered  the  Oread  in  1850,  the  second  year 
of  the  Institute.  After  finishing  her  studies  she  taught  until  her 
marriage  to  George  C.  Bigelow  of  Worcester,  a  contractor  and 
builder.  Air.  Bigelow  died  April  14,  1892.  Their  only  child, 
Alice  J.,  now  Mrs.  Frank  P.  Knowles,  has  three  children.  She 
was  also  a  pupil  at  the  Oread,  one  of  the  few  instances,  during 
the  thirty-three  years  of  the  Institute,  of  a  family  represented 
by  two  generations,  a  mother  succeeded  by  her  daughter. 

Address :  Mrs.  Eleanor  D.  Bigelow,  S38  Main  St.,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

Jennie  L.  Douglass  of  New  London,  Conn.,  was  at  the 
Oread   in    1853-54.      She   was   married   in    1858   to   Louis   D. 


! 'acker  of  Brooklyn,  X.  V.     Air.  Packer  died  in  1900,  and  his 
wife  survived  him  less  than  a  year! 

Their  two  sons  died  in  early  childhood. 


Mary  Curtis  Dunbar,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  (Cur- 
tis) Dunbar,  was  born  in  Hudson,  \.  Y.,  August  30,  1833. 
She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1850  -51.  She  was  married 
in  South   Boston,  November  25,  1855,  to  B.  Frank   Dunbar,  a 


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native  of  West  Bridgewater,  his  family  and  hers  being  of 
the  same  name,  but  in  no  way  related.  Mr.  Dunbar  was  a 
graduate  of  Middleboro  Academy  and  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  was  for  many  years  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  pianos.  He  died  February  5.  1901.  They 
had  two  children:  M.  Lillian,  born  July  15,  1859,  at  South 
Boston,  was  educated  in  the  Boston  schools  and  is  now  a 
teacher  in  Shurtleff  School;  F.  Clifton,  born  July  23,  1869, 
also  in  South  Boston,  now  clerk  at  Hotel  Bellevue,  married 
Mary  A.  Trefry  of  Xahant,  Mass.,  November  23,   1898. 

Mrs.  Dunbar's  father  made  the  patterns  for  the  machinery 
for  the  first  steamboat  that  went  up  the  Hudson  River.  Mrs. 
Dunbar  has  all  through  her  life  been  active  in  church  and  local 
charitable  work. 

Address:  Mrs.  B.  Frank  Dunbar,  2  Crawford  St.,  Rox- 
bury,   Mass. 


Ellen  T.  Duncan,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Tryphosa 
( Lakin  )  Duncan,  was  born  in  Xorth  BroOkfield,  Mass.,  March 
2,  1840,  and  entered  the  Oread  in  1855.     She  was  married  at 


her  home  in  Xorth  Brookfield,  November  22,  1859,  to  Albert 
G.  Sprague,  M.D.  A  son,  Albert  D.,  born  December  14,  1872, 
at  Centreville,  R.  I.,  died  in  infancy;  a  daughter,  Mary  Emma, 
born  July  9,  1882,  at  Providence,  R.  L,  died  in  early  childhood. 
Dr.  Sprague  was  Surgeon  of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  Rhode 
Island  Volunteers,  in  the  Civil  War.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island,  President  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health  and  President  of  the  Town  Council  of 


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Warwick,  R.  I.      Mrs.  Sprague  has  helped  promote  the  work 
of  the   Homeopathic  and   Maternity   Hospitals   in   Providence. 
Address :    Mrs.  Albert  G.  Sprague,  Riverpoint,  R.  I. 

Ella  Maria  Eames,  daughter  of  William  Alden  and 
Hannah  Parks  (Waite)  Eames  of  Leicester,  Mass.,  was  born 
in  Worcester,  December  30,  1837.  She  was  at  the  Oread  in 
1853  and  1854.  She  was  married  July  30,  1857,  in  Leicester 
to  John  Waldo  Bisco,  a  business  man  of  that  town.  Their 
only  child,  Annie  Louise,  born  in  Leicester,  June  15,  1862,  was 
educated  at  the  Leicester  Academy,  and  at  the  Oread,  the 
second  instance  where  the  mother's,  and  afterwards  her  daugh- 
ter's name,  appears  in  the  Oread  catalogue ;  the  daughter  was 
married  June  20,  1882,  to  J.  Bradford  Sargent  of  Leicester. 

Address :  Mrs.  John  W.  Bisco,  23  Abbotsford  Road,  Brook- 
line,  Mass. 


Louisa   S.   Earle    was    at   the 

Oread  from  1852  to  1854.  Her 
widowed  mother  at  that  time  re- 
sided in  the  southern  suburb  of 
Worcester,  where,  on  September  1, 
1854.  Louisa  died,  after  a  brief  ill- 
ness, of  typhoid  fever.  She  was  a 
girl  of  great  originality,  independ- 
ent in  character  and  manner,  a 
great  favorite  with  her  classmates, 
and  much  beloved. 


Ellen  A.  Eddy,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1852,  was 
born  in  Auburn,  Mass.,  December  7,  1833.  Her  parents  were 
Samuel  and  Rhoda  (Stone)  Eddy.  She  was  married  at 
Auburn,  Mass.,  December  9,  1868,  to  Philander  Pond,  a  man- 
ufacturer, and  afterwards  a  real  estate  dealer.  Mrs.  Pond  was 
for  Mime  years  a  teacher. 

Address:    Mrs.   Philander   Pond,  Southern    Pines,   \.  C. 

Jane  E.  Elliott  died  of  consumption  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen at  Thompson,  Conn.,  very  soon  after  leaving  the  Oread 

in    1850. 


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Marion  Ida  Fairbank  attended  the  Oread  in  1855  or 
1856.  She  was  born  in  Warren,  Mass.,  November  7,  1839, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Asahel  and  Mary  Abigail   (  Chapin) 

Fairbank.  From  early  childhood 
she  possessed  a  very  delicate  con- 
stitution and  always  received  most 
watchful  and  tender  care. 

At  her  home,  February  11,  1857, 
she  was  married  to  Joseph  D.  Raker, 
a  building  contractor,  and  soon  left 
with  her  husband  for  his  distant 
home  in  Xatchez,  Miss.  The  influ- 
ence of  the  new  climate  was  unfavor- 
able and  she  soon  yielded  to  the 
insidious  disease  with  which  f<  ir 
years  she  had  been  threatened.  On 
March  3,  1858,  she  died,  at  the 
early  age  of  nineteen.  The  above  we  learn  from  a  charming 
tribute  written  at  the  time  of  her  death,  which  adds  that  she 
entered  upon  life  well  prepared  to  adorn  it  by  her  mental 
accomplishments  and  her  personal  attractions,  and  that  for  her 
amiable  and  gentle  spirit,  combined  with  dignity  and  grace  in 
her  manner  and  more  than  ordinary  feminine  beauty,  she  was 
2reatlv  beloved  bv  all  about  her. 


Susan  Fay  Fairbank  was  born 
at  Oakham.  Mass.,  December  29, 
1832.  She  became  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  its  earliest  days,  entering  in 
September,  1850,  and  remaining  un- 
til the  close  of  the  school  vear.  The 
daughter  of  James  Chandler  Fair- 
bank,  she  is  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Jonathan  Fairbank,  who  came  from 
England  to  Boston  in  1633,  and  in 
1636  went  to  Dedham  and  built 
the  house  now  standing,  and  widely 
known  as  the  "Old  Fairbank 
House,"  historically  famous  as  be- 
ing the  oldest  dwelling  house  in  Xew  England,  continuously 
owned  and  occupied  by  the  builder,  and  his  lineal  descendants. 


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Her  mother  was  Lurana  Robinson,  whose  father  was  a  soldier 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev. 
John  Robinson,  the  Pilgrim  Pastor  of  Plymouth  Colony. 

Miss  Fairbank  spent  some  years  teaching  in  Massachusetts 
and  in  New  Jersey.  Her  home  is  now  in  Oakham,  Mass., 
where  she  is  the  manager  of  Prospect  Hill  Farm. 


Emily  E.  Fay  entered  the  Oread  early  in  1851.  Her 
father  was  J.  R.  Fay  of  Westboro,  Mass.,  and  her  mother  Mary 
Bemis  of  Grafton,  Mass.     She  was  born  in  Westboro,  January 

On  May  14,  1872,  she  was  married  in  Worcester  to  Rev.  J.  B. 
Griswold,  a  Congregational  minister.  They  had  three  children : 
Frederick  F.,  born  October  u,  1873,  at  East  Hampton,  Conn., 
graduated  in  1899  from  Tufts  College,  and  is  at  present  a  civil 
engineer;  Anna  B.,  born  at  East  Hampton,  October  5,  1874, 
graduated  at  the  New  Britain  Normal  School  in  1898,  and  is 
now  teaching  in  tbe  Normal  School  at  Willimantic,  Conn. ;  Belle 
Alione,  born  July  16,  1878,  died  September  2  of  the  same  year. 

Mrs.  Griswold  was  the  organizer  of  several  foreign  mis- 
sionary societies,  and  has  written  for  religious  papers.  Mr. 
Griswold  died  by  accident  in  1896,  and  Mrs.  Griswold  died 
July  30,  1904. 

Sarah  W.  Fayerweather,  only  child  of  John  Appleton 
Fayerweather  of  Westboro,  Mass.,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Augusta 


Tyler  of  Boston,  was  born  in  Westboro,  May  29,   1835.     She 

attended  the  Oread  from   1853  to  1855. 


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She  was  married  in  Westboro,  February  7,  [866,  to  William 
R.  Gould,  a  boot  manufacturer.  Mr.  Gould  came  from  Oak- 
ham, and  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  Dr.  George  H.  Gould  of  Wor- 
cester. Gertrude  Tyler  Gould,  a  daughter,  born  February  7, 
1875,  was  married  to  Edward  L.  Pickard,  Jr.,  of  Auhurndale, 
Mass. 

Mrs.  Gould  has  been  interested  in  local  church  organizations, 
the  Auxiliary  to  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  evangelistic  associations. 
Her  life  has  been  devoted  to  her  home  and  family.  Mr.  Gould 
died  some  years  since,  and  she  is  now  alone  in  the  old  home. 

Address:  Mrs.  Sarah  F.  Gould,  39  South  St.,  Westboro, 
Mass. 


S.  Ellen  Fiske,  who  came  to  the  Oread  in  1854  from 
Upton.  Mass.,  died  in  Lowell.  July  3,  1901,  and  was  buried  in 
Upton. 

Sarah  Jane  Fiske  entered  the  Oread  in  1854.  Her  father's 
name  was  Jonathan  Stow  Fisk,  grandson  of  Lieutenant  William 
Fisk  of  Upton,  Mass.,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  whose  wife, 
Jemima  Adams,  was  a  descendant  of 
the  Adams  family  of  Ouincy.  Her 
mother's  name  was  Georgiana  M. 
Keith,  granddaughter  of  Simeon  Keith 
of  Xorthbridge,  who  was  a  soldier  in 
the   Revolution. 

She  was  born  December  22,  1838, 
and  was  married  to  Henry  K.  South- 
wick,  March  1,  1864,  at  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  (  >xford,  Mass.  Mr.  South- 
wick  was  Captain  of  a  colored  com- 
pany in  the  Union  Army  during  the 
Civil  War.  and  was  later  Assistant 
Adjutant-General.      He  is   now   a  broker  in    Xew   York   City. 

Mrs.  Southwick  died  in  1864,  at  Carrolton,  Xew  (  Means,  La., 
and  the  burial  was  in  the  family  lot  at  Swan  Point  Cemetery, 
Providence,  R.  I..     She  left  no  children. 

Addie  P.  Flagg,  daughter  of  Captain  Stephen  Flagg  of 
Boylston,  Mass.,  and  Lucretia  (Dodd  )  Flagg  of  Holden,  Mass., 


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was  born  in  Boylston,  August  13,  1S33.  She  entered  the 
Oread  in  1849,  anc^  remained  one  year. 

She  was  employed  as  a  teacher  four  years,  and  in  1855  was 
married  to  Asa  B.  Knowlton  of  Shrewsbury,  Mass.  After 
residing  in  Shrewsbury  seventeen  years  they  removed  to  River- 
side, R.  I.,  their  present  home.     They  have  one  adopted  child. 

Mrs.  Knowlton  has  been  a  worker  in  her  church,  and  an 
active  member  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Address :   Mrs.  Asa  B.  Knowlton,  Riverside,  R.  I. 

Martha  M.  Flagg,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1851,  was 
the  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Julia  (Holbrook)  Flagg,  and 
was  born  in  Worcester,  March  10,  1828.  On  June  14,  1854, 
she  was  married  to  George  F.  Newton,  a  dentist.  Their  chil- 
dren, Julia  Belle  and  Lizzieanna,  are  no  longer  living.  Julia 
Belle  was  an  Oread  pupil  of  1867.  Mrs.  Newton  died  Novem- 
ber 13,  1857. 

Kate  A.  Forbush,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Franklin  and 
Susan  (Warren)  Forbush,  was  born  in  Westboro,  Mass., 
March  30,  1836.  She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1853.  In 
October,  1855,  she  was  married  to  Melville  Wood,  a  watch- 
maker and  jeweler.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  resided  in  Norfolk, 
Ya.,  ten  years,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Five  children,  four  of  whom  survive,  were  born  in  Norfolk. 
Her  twin  sons,  Harry  Earl  and  Herbert  Carl,  the  first  a 
newspaper  artist,  and  the  second  a  bookkeeper,  and  her  two 
daughters  are  all  married  and  reside  in  Kansas  City. 

Address:  Mrs.  Melville  Wood,  4628  East  10th  St.,  Kansas 
City,  Mo. 

Lucy  Jane  Foster,  or  '"Jennie,"  as  she  was  known  at 
the  Oread,  entered  the  school  in  1855  and  left  at  the  end  of 
the  school  year,  1856.  She  was  born  September  27,  1838,  at 
Barre,  Mass.  Her  father  was  Francis  Foster,  a  prominent 
business  man  of  Troy  and  of  Keene,  N.  H.  Her  mother  was 
Susan  Willis  Packard  of  Oakham,  Mass.  Miss  Foster  was  a 
very  successful  teacher  al   Troy  and   Keene. 

On  February  26,  1803,  she  was  married  to  Joseph  W.  Cross, 
Jr.,  who  was  a  High  School  teacher.  lie  studied  at  Amherst 
in  the  class  of   1K5X,  where  he  received  in    [868  the  degree  of 


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M.A.  Five  children  were  born  to  them:  Katharine  P.,  May  17. 
1864,  at  Sterling,  Mass. ;  Frances  F.,  October  13,  1866,  at  Man- 
chester, N.  H. ;  Gertrude  M..  Jan- 
nary  8,  1869,  at  Falmouth,  Mass. ; 
Robert  M..  August  3,  1872,  at 
Keene,  and  Frank  E.,  June  30,  1876. 
at  Keene.  The  eldest  daughter 
married  a  musician.  The  two  sons 
are  in  business  in  Boston,  living 
with  the  two  younger  sisters  at 
402  Medford  St.,  Somerville.  Mrs. 
Cross  was  possessed  of  consider- 
able literary  ability  and  wrote  many 
poems,  some  for  publication,  others 
for  her  family  and  friends.  She 
died  in  Boston,  September  28,  1901. 

Sarah  Fowler,  one  of  the  early  pupils  at  the  Oread,  was 
married  to  Fred  Bellows  of  Boston,  and  died  about  forty  rears 
ago. 

Hannah  Freeman,  who  came  to  the  Oread  in  1855  from 
Milton,  X.  S.,  was  born  in  Harmony,  Queens  County,  X.  S.. 
July  20,  1829.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Zoeth  and  Charlotte 
(Parker)  Freeman.  October  31,  1858,  she  was  married  to 
I.  F.  Roach. 

Address :  Mrs.  I.  F.  Roach,  Clarence,  Annapolis  County,  X.  S. 

Salome  P.  Freeman,  sister  of  Hannah,  and  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  with  her  in  1855—56,  was  born  in  Harmony,  X.  S., 
February  2^,  1827. 

On  December  18,  1859,  she  was  married  to  Isaac  Shaw.  A 
son.  Rev.  M.  B.  Shaw,  is  a  Baptist  clergyman  living  in  Cali- 
fornia. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shaw  died  at  Berwick,  Kings  County, 
N.  S.,  a  few  years  ago. 

Janet  Gay  entered  the  Oread  in  1855.  and  remained  two 
years.  She  was  born  in  Nashua,  X.  H.,  October  17.  1841. 
Her  father,  whose  name  was  Ziba  Gay,  was  a  thorough  New 
Englander.  Pier  mother,  Mary  Kennedy,  a  native  of  the  North 
of  Ireland,  had  a  Scotch-Irish  father,  and  an  English  mother. 


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Janet  Gay  taught  music  in  her  sister's  school  in  Georgia,  and 
later  in  a  school  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Returning,  with  her 
two  young  nephews,  to  her  home  in  New  Hampshire  during  the 
exciting  days  which  followed  the  firing  on  Fort  Sumter,  she 
was  five  days  on  the  journey,  having  to  go  a  roundabout  way, 
and  partly  by  stage  coach. 

After  the  war  was  over,  and  after  the  death  of  her  father 
and  mother,  she  again  went  South,  and  engaged  in  work  for 
the  colored  people  in  Wilmington,  N.  C,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  American  Missionary  Association.  While  there  she  met, 
and  in  1877  was  married  to  Rev.  Daniel  D.  Dodge,  pastor 
of  a  church  in  Wilmington,  and  superintendent  of  colored 
schools.  A  son,  John  Allen,  born  November  4,  1879,  who  died 
in  infancy,  and  a  daughter,  Jane  Gay,  born  December  2j,  1881, 
a  student  at  Radcliffe  in  the  class  of  1904,  were  their  only 
children.  Mr.  Dodge  died  in  1886,  and  soon  after  his  wife  and 
daughter  returned  to  the  North,  where  they  have  since  resided. 

Address:  Mrs.  Janet  Gay  Dodge,  50  Prospect  St.,  Waltham, 
Mass. 


Emily  Augusta  Goodnow  was  born  in  Henry ville,  Canada, 
April  16.  1841.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Edward  S.  and  Emily 
II.    (Erwin)    Goodnow,  and  entered  the  Oread  in   1855.      On 

September  9,  1861,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  William  H.  Chandler,  at 
that  time  a  hardware  merchant  of 
Pittsburgh,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Chandler 
was  educated  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  and  has  been  for  over 
thirty  years  a  Director  and  Secre- 
tary of  the  White,  Potter  &  Paige 
Manufacturing  Co.  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  In  1868  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chandler  moved  from  Plattsburgh 
to  Hamilton,  Mo.,  where  they  lived 
for  about  five  years.  They  had 
two  children :  Edward  Herman, 
born  July  26,  [862,  and  William  Goodnow,  born  February  4, 
[865.  The  eldest  son  was  married  October  26,  1892,  to  Rita 
M.  Wardell,  and  is  a  commission  merchant  in  New  York  City. 


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The  younger  son.  who  was  connected  with  the  White,  Potter  & 
Paige  Manufacturing  Co.  of  Brooklyn,  was  married  April  25, 
1888,  to  Jennie  R.  Young,  and  died  December  10,  1890,  leaving 
a  son,  William  Young,  born  October  12,  1890. 

Mrs.  Chandler  was  a  faithful  worker  in  her  church  and 
among  the  needy  and  afflicted.  She  was  an  invalid,  but  a 
patient  and  cheerful  one,  for  several  years  before  her  death, 
which  occurred  in  Andover,  Mass..  January  19,  1874. 


Laura  Ann  Goodnow,  daughter  of  Silas  and  Eliza  Pierce 
(  Whitcomb)  Goodnow,  was  born  in  Boston,  March  13,  1844. 
She  attended  the  Oread  in  1858-59.  and  was  married  in  1870 


to  William  P.  Mattoon,  a  stock  broker.  Her  only  daughter, 
Laura  Isabella,  born  in  1871,  was  graduated  at  Wellesley, 
studied  as  a  graduate  student  at  Smith,  and  is  now  Director  of 
the  Scientific  Department  of  Madam  Yeltin's  Day  School  for 
Girls  at  West  74th  St.,  New  York  City. 

The  following  quotation  is  from  an  article  in  the  Springfield 
Republican  of  November  4,  1898:   "Mrs.  Mattoon  has  been  the 


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active  spirit  in  the  production  by  local  amateurs  of  'Pinafore,' 
and  many  other  operas  and  plays,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
countless  exhibitions  of  Mrs.  Jarley's  Wax  Works  and  Jerushy 
Wilkins'  Wax  Figures,  a  creation  of  Airs.  Mattoon's,  which 
succeeded  the  famous  Mrs.  Jarley.  Nearly  all  these  perform- 
ances have  been  given  to  help  some  worth)-  charity.     Her  talent 


for  mimicry  and  impersonation  came  to  her  early  and  with  it 
was  combined  a  fine  soprano  voice,  which  covered  three  octaves. 
She  inherited  the  musical  instinct  and  voice  of  her  mother,  who 
was  a  fine  contralto  singer  of  Boston.  Mrs.  Mattoon  was  the 
soprano  of  King's  Chapel  in  Boston  for  some  years.  Later  she 
came  to  this  city  to  sing  in  the  Universalis!  Church  choir,  which 
then  had  a  famous  quartet.  Afterwards  she  sang  for  some 
years  in  Dr.  Rodgers'  church  on  Fifth  Avenue  in  New  York. 
Mrs.  Mattoon  also  had  a  considerable  concert  career.  She  was 
a  soloist  in  the  first  triennial  celebration  of  the  ITandel  and 
Haydn  Society  of  Boston,  in  Music  I  fall  in   [865.     There  were 


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700  in  the  chorus  and  112  in  the  orchestra.  She  was  one 
of  the  original  soloists  for  the  Mendelssohn  Quintet  Club,  and 
sang  for  two  years  in  the  Harvard  symphony  concerts.  She 
was  associated  with  Annie  Louise  Carey,  Henry  Clay  Barnabee, 
Myron  W.  Whitney  and  Teresa  Carreno.  In  1868  she  studied 
operas  with  Caroline  Richings  and  her  father,  Peter  Richings. 
She  traveled  with  them  through  the  season,  studying  thirteen 
operas  for  the  stage,  and  occasionally  appearing  in  the  chorus. 
It  was  as  a  pupil,  however,  and  Mrs.  Mattoon  has  never 
appeared  professionally  on  the  stage." 

At  our  second  re-union  Mrs.  Mattoon  very  generously  and 
delightfully  entertained  the  members  of  the  Oread  Collegiate 
Institute  Association. 

Address:  Mrs.  W.  P.  Mattoon.  103  Mulberry  St.,  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Hannah  Wheeler   Goodwin   was  born  in  Wilkinsonville, 

Mass.,  August  17,  1837.  She  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Daniel  LeBaron  Goodwin,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  and  his 
wife,  Rebecca  Wilkinson,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Lawrence  Wil- 
kinson, an  early  colonist,  whose  line  is  traced  through  thirty 
generations  to  the  Emperor  Charlemagne.  Hannah  W.  Good- 
win was  at  the  Oread  in  1853,  and  1854.  After  leaving  the 
Oread  she  was  a  teacher  in  the  State  Normal  School  of  Rhode 
Island  for  nine  years. 

On  December  29,  1863,  in  St.  John's  Church,  Providence, 
R.  I.,  she  was  married  to  Samuel  Smith  Drury,  M.D.,  a 
physician  of  Bristol,  R.  I.  Four  daughters,  all  of  whom  were 
born  in  Bristol,  graduated  from  St.  Agnes  School  in  Albany, 
N.  Y, :  Julia  has  been  in  residence  at  Dennison  House  College 
Settlement,  Boston  ;  Mary  Rhodes,  after  two  years  at  Radcliffe, 
taught  two  years  at  Dana  Hall,  Wellesley ;  Hannah  LeBaron 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts  School  in  Boston; 
Gertrude  has  spent  some  time  abroad.  Another  daughter. 
Rebecca  LeBaron.  died  in  early  childhood.  A  son,  John,  is 
married  and  lives  in  Bristol.  Another  son,  Samuel  S.,  a  grad- 
uate of  Harvard  University,  is  a  teacher  at  the  Pom  fret  School 
for  Boys.  Dr.  Drury  died  several  years  ago.  Mrs.  Drury  is 
a  Director  of  the  Bristol  Charitable  Society. 

Address:    Mrs.  Hannah  G.  Drurv.  Bristol.  R.   I. 


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Malvina  Minerva  Gove  entered  the  Oread  as  a  pupil  in 
1 85 1 ,  becoming  afterwards  a  teacher  of  English,  Algebra  and 
Arithmetic,  and  remaining  through  1853. 

She  was  born  at  Amesbury,  Mass.,  January  30,  1830,  and  was 
a  pupil  at  the  Framingham  Normal  School.  She  probably  was 
graduated  there  in  1849.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught 
in  1854,  at  the  Allen  English  and  Classical  School  at  West 
Newton,  Mass.,  remaining  there  probably  till  her  marriage  to 
Thomas  Dwight  Adams  at  Mil  ford,  N.  H.,  November  25,  1856. 

Her  husband  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Conn.,  February  10, 
1827,  and  was  a  student  at  Worcester  Academy,  and  afterwards 
at  Amherst  College  (13. A.  1853).  He  was  Principal  of  Fram- 
ingham High  School  in  1854-58,  and  of  Newton  High  School  in 
1860-67.  tie  was  attorney  in  New  York  in  1868-77,  and  Prin- 
cipal of  Essex  Classical  Institute  in  1882-86.  He  taught  at  the 
Allen  English  and  Classical  School  in  1886-87,  anc^  m  the 
High  School  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1888-91. 

A  son,  Thomas  Gove  Adams,  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of 
Arts  at  Yale  University  in  1891,  and  is  now  practicing  law 
at  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Nellie  M.   Grout,   the  daughter  of  Jonathan  and   Mary  J. 

(Smith)    Grout,  was  born  in  PYinceton,  Mass.,  in   1840.     She 

was  a  sister  of  Willie  Grout,  the  young  martyr  of  Ball's  Bluff, 

whose  tragic  death  inspired  the  writ- 
ing of  the  "Vacant  Chair."  She 
first  attended  the  Oread  in  1852,  and 
was  a  day  scholar  there  for  a  short 
time  later  1  in. 

In  October,  1862,  she  was  married 
to  Rev.  George  II.  Gould,  who  two 
years  later  was  settled  as  pastor  of 
the  old  Center  Church  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  After  1X70  Dr.  Gould  made 
Worcester  his  permanent  home,  and 
was  for  many  years  pastor  of  the 
I  'iedmont  Church.  I  le  died  May  8, 
of   her    sister,    Lizzie,    in    1881,    Mrs. 

Gould  took  her  three  months'  old  boy  and  eared   for  him  until 

he   died,    four    years   and    six    months   later. 


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She  was  married  a  second  time  to  Rev.  William  S.  Smith 
of  Worcester.  Mrs.  Smith  is  much  interested  in  conchology, 
and  has  a  large  collection  of  rare  and  beautiful  shells.  She 
has  published  a  volume  of  Dr.  Gould's  sermons,  entitled,  "In 
What  Life  Consists  and  Other  Sermons,"  has  written  frequently 
for  the  papers,  and  delivered  lectures,  not  only  on  conchology, 
but  also  on  current  events,  literature  and  a  variety  of  subjects. 

Address:  Airs.  Ellen  M.  Gould-Smith,  873  Main  St..  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 

Sarah  Anne  Hale  was  born  December  27,  ^$$7,  in  Graf- 
ton, Mass.  She  was  the  daughter  of  George  W.  Hale  of  that 
town,  and  his  wife,  Lydia  Drury  Flagg.  Her  great-great- 
grandfather. Rev.  Solomon  Prentice,  was  the  first  minister  set- 
tled in  the  town  of  Grafton.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  the 
spring  of  1854,  remaining  until  the  summer  of  1855.  She  has 
been  a  lover  and  teacher  of  music.  Her  life  has  been  devoted 
mainly  to  the  education  of  children  in  her  home,  and  to  the  care 
of  the  aged  members  of  her  own  family. 

Address:    Grafton,  Mass. 

Libbie  and  Ellen  Halsted  came  to  the  Oread  from 
Northampton,  Mass..  in  the  early  fifties. 

Libbie  was  married  at  Northampton  in  1864,  to  General  John 
Willock  Noble.  General  Noble  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the 
class  of  185 1,  and  before  the  Civil  War  was  City  Attorney  at 
Keokuk,  Iowa.  When  the  war  broke  out  he  enlisted  and  by 
regular  promotion  in  the  same  regiment  became  Colonel,  and 
was  made  Brevet  Brigadier-General.  He  was  the  United  States 
Attorney  for  Missouri  at  St.  Louis  in  1867-70,  was  offered  the 
Solicitor-Generalship  by  President  Grant,  but  refused,  and  was 
Secretary  of  the  Interior  during  President  Harrison's  admin- 
istration. He  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Yale  and 
Miami  University. 

Mrs.  Noble  spent  most  of  her  married  life  in  St.  Louis, 
except  the  years  1889-03.  when  she  was  in  Washington.  The 
Yale  Class  Record  for  the  Class  of  185 1  speaks  thus  of  General 
and  Mrs.  Noble:  "General  Noble  has  been  associated  with  all 
good  schemes  for  promoting  the  welfare  of  the  town  in  which 


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he  lives.  His  wife  shares  with  him  in  this  work,  putting  her 
energy  into  intellectual  culture  and  the  establishment  of  women 
on  an  independent  footing.  Their  home  in  St.  Louis  was  the 
center  of  many  classes  and  clubs  and  evening  lectures,  as  well 
as  more  fashionable  gayeties,  the  latter  of  which  necessarily 
usurped  much  of  their  time  and  strength  in  their  Washington 
social  life." 

Airs.  Noble  was  much  interested  in  theosophy. 

Two  children  were  born  to  them,  both  of  whom  died  young. 

Ellen  Halsted  has  spent  a  large  part  of  her  life  in  Europe. 

Harriet  M.  Hamilton,  the  daughter  of  Alanson  and  Eliza 
Whipple  (Warren)  Hamilton,  was  born  in  West  Brookfield, 
Mass.,  August  4,  1835. 

On  September  17,  1856,  she  was  married  to  Oliver  D.  Hunt, 
who  was  in  the  insurance  business  in  Amherst,  Mass.,  where 
he  died  December  5,  1899.  They  had  two  children:  Caroline 
Towne,  born  July  23,  1858,  and  William  Alanson,  born  Decem- 
ber 10,  i860.  The  daughter  was  at  Wellesley  three  years,  but 
ill  health  prevented  the  completion  of  her  college  career.  The 
son,  of  the  class  of  1885  at  Amherst,  died  September  28,  1893. 

Address :    Mrs.  Oliver  D.  Hunt,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Anna  M.  Hartshorn,  daughter  of  Calvin  and  Mary  A. 
(Guild)  Hartshorn  of  Walpole,  Mass.,  was  born  in  Walpole, 
September  12,  1833.  She  is  descended  from  Revolutionary 
ancestry. 

Miss  Hartshorn  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  spring  term 
of  1852.  On  November  10,  1859,  she  was  married  at  her  home 
in  Walpole  to  Luther  Swan  Leach  of  Stoughton,  Mass., 
Deputy  Collector,  and  afterwards  Collector  for  the  Second 
Massachusetts  District.  He  died  April  n,  1875.  Her  only 
son.  Joseph  Swan,  born  in  Stoughton,  November  14,  1860,  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Stoughton  and  Walpole,  grad- 
uating in  the  class  of  1880  from  the  English  High  School,  Bos- 
ton. I  [e  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Legislature 
in  1901  02,  and  is  engaged  in  the  bleaching  and  dyeing  busi- 
ness at  Walpole,  Mass.,  with  the  R.  S.  Gray  Co. 

Address:    Mrs.   Anna   II.   Leach,  Walpole,  Mass. 


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Harriette    E.  Hedrick,   daughter  of  George  and  Harriette 

(Hansell)    Hedrick,   was  born   in   Lowell,    Mass.,  in  January, 
1836.       The    Hedrick    family    is    of 
German  descent. 

Harriette  entered  the  Oread  in 
1855.  She  was  married  in  Septem- 
ber, 1859.  to  A.  J.  Mann,  a  merchant 
of  Boston.  They  had  two  children  : 
Mary  I.,  born  July  1.  i860,  died 
May  23,  1880:  William  J.,  born 
September  17,  1862,  died  in  August,  ■ 
1876. 

Mrs.   Mann   died  at  the  home  of 
her  father  in  Lowell,  November  2~j, 
1866,    her    husband    having    died    a 
year   or   two    previous.     She    was    a   brilliant    scholar    and    an 
accomplished  musician. 


Marion  Henshaw,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1852  from 
Pepperell,  Mass.,  was  Matron  for  many  years  at  the  Reform 
School  in  Westfield.  Her  last  years  were  spent  with  a  sister, 
Mrs.  Kellogg",  of  Springfield.  She  died  in  the  early  part  of 
1902,  and  is  buried  in  Brookfiekl. 


Kate  W.  Hervey,  daughter  of  James  K.  and  Mary 
(  Woods )  Hervey,  both  of  English  and  Scotch  descent,  was 
born  at  Oakham,  Mass.,  June  9,  1832.  She  was  at  the  Oread 
one  year,  entering  September,  1850.  In  1855  the  family  moved 
to  Iowa  and  in  May,  [859,  she  was  married  at  Marion,  Iowa, 
to  X.  M.  Hubbard,  a  lawyer.  He  was  a  Captain  in  the  Civil 
War,  then  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  On 
his  return,  he  was  appointed  District  Judge,  but  he  resigned  to 
become  attornev  for  a  large  railroad  corporation,  which  position 
he  held  till  the  time  of  his  death,  June  12,  1902.  Two  daugh- 
ters, who  lived  to  womanhood,  married  and  died,  each  leaving 
two  children.  Her  one  son  was  educated  at  the  Annapolis 
Naval  Academy  ;  he  resigned  after  seven  years  to  take  up  his 
father's  profession:  he  proffered  his  services  when  the  Spanish 
War  broke  out,  and  served  during;  the  war  as  Lieutenant,  the 


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same  rank  he  would  have  reached  had  he  remained  in  the 
Navy.  Mrs.  Hubbard's  heart  and  hands  are  kept  busy,  with 
much  educational  and  charitable  work. 

Address :    Mrs.  Kate  H.  Hubbard.  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 


Nannie  G.  Hey  wood,  daughter  of  Benjamin  F.  Hey  wood, 
M.D.,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Ruggles  Green,  was  born  in 
Worcester,  December  24,  1841.  She  entered  the  Oread  in 
1852,  and  remained  until  the  close  of  the  school  year  in   1858. 

On  April  8,  1874,  she  was  married  in  Worcester  to  Elisha 
Griswold,  M.D.,  a  physician  and  surgeon,  who  had  served 
through  the  Civil  War,  first,  in  the  Volunteers,  and  afterwards 
in  the  Regular  Army.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  in  charge 
of  the  Judiciary  Square  Hospital  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Later 
he  was  at  the  head  of  the  Freedman's  Bureau  of  Louisiana.  In 
1867  he  resigned  from  the  Army,  with  brevet  rank  of  Colonel, 
He  died  October  3,  1896. 

The  first  three  children  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Griswold  died 
in  early  infancy.  Arthur  Heywood  Griswold  was  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1878.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard  University  in 
1902,  and  is  now  studying  medicine  at  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity, Baltimore,  Md. ;  Ralph  Mancill  Griswold,  born  August  8, 
1 88 1,  was  graduated  in  1902  from  the  Naval  Academy  at 
Annapolis,  and  is  now  serving  on  the  U.  S.  Battleship  Kentucky. 

Mrs.  Griswold  has  led  a  happy,  uneventful  life,  traveling 
extensively  in  her  own  country  and  abroad. 

Address:  Mrs.  Nannie  H.  Griswold,  9  Catherine  St.,  Wor- 
cester. 


Rosa  Heywood,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Nancy  (Foster) 
Heywood,  was  born  in  Gardner,  Mass.,  December  13,  1834. 
She  was  among  the  earlier  pupils  of  the  Oread,  attending  in 
1851  and  1852.  On  October  4,  1870,  at  her  home  in  Fitchburg, 
Mass.,  she  was  married  to  Major  William  (  ).  Brown,  who  was 
Commissary  of  Subsistence  in  the  Army  during  a  part  of  the 
Civil  War,  and  County  Commissioner  of  Worcester  County 
for  many  years.  Major  Brown  died  in  January  1890,  leaving 
no  children.     Mrs.   Brown  has  been  actively  interested  in  the 


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Hospital  Cottages  for  Children  at  Baldw  insville,  the  work  of 
the  Benevolent  Union  and  other  charities  of  the  city  of  Fitch- 
burg. 

Address:    Mrs.   Rosa   H.   Brown.   336   Main   St..    Fitchburg, 
Mass. 


Bernette  Hill  was  horn  in  that  part  of  Mendon,  Mass., 
which  is  now  Blackstone,  April  26,  1837.  Her  father  was  Dan 
Hill,  whose  ancestors  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the 
town  of  Mendon.  The  family  of  her 
mother,  Nancy  B.  Peck,  descendants 
of  Roger  Williams,  trace  their  an- 
cestry from  ancient  British  stock. 
She  entered  the  <  )read  in  1855  and 
remained  till  1856.  After  leaving 
she  was  for  a  while  a  pupil  at  Thet- 
ford  Academy,  Yt.,  and  then  taught 
in  Blackstone,  Bellingham  and  Ox- 
bridge, Mass.  April  26,  1859,  she 
was  married  in  Blackstone  to  Gus- 
tavus  B.  Williams  of  Uxhridge, 
Mass.,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth 
College,  and  a  teacher.     He  was  a 

member  of  the  Fifty-first  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteers, 
in  the  Civil  War.  After  the  war  he  devoted  himself  to  the 
profession  of  law,  residing  in  Mendon,  where,  on  April  10, 
1880,  his  wife.  Bernette  Hill,  died,  leaving  nine  children: 
Myrtie.  horn  in  Blackstone.  June  0.  18(0,  and  educated  at  Wel- 
lesley.  was  married  June  14,  1883,  to  J.  C.  F.  Wheelock,  a  lawyer 
of  Southbridge.  Mass..  and  has  three  children:  Hill,  horn  in 
Blackstone,  <  October  19.  [862,  and  educated  at  Chicago  Uni- 
versity, became  an  electrical  engineer,  and  died  in  1898.  leaving 
a  widow-,  lint  no  children:  Berton,  born  in  Mendon,  July  21. 
1864,  an  electrical  engineer,  married  a  daughter  of  Mrs. 
William  (  ).  Mason  of  Woonsocket  (who  was  Mary  Capron, 
an  (  (read  of  [853),  and  has  one  child:  Wendell,  born  in  Men- 
don. April  3.  [866,  educated  at  Dartmouth  College  and  Boston 
University  Law  School,  is  now  a  lawyer  living  in  Milford; 
Eben,  born  in   Mendon,   September  S.    1807.  and  educated  at 


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Dartmouth,  was  engaged  in  teaching,  and  then  for  some  years 
was  a  coal  dealer  in  Milford,  where,  on  November  24,  1900, 
he  died,  leaving  a  widow  and  three  children :  Lena,  born  in 
Mendon,  May  31,  1869,  and  educated  at  Mount  Holyoke  and 
Chauncey  Hall,  Boston,  was  married  January  18,  1894,  to 
Herbert  J.  George  of  Mendon;  Paul,  born  in  Mendon,  July 
7,  1873,  and  educated  in  the  schools  of  Mendon  and  Milford, 
is  now  employed  in  the  law  office  of  his  father  and  brother  in 
Milford;  Ethel,  born  October  31,  T877,  attended  college  at 
Mount  Holyoke,  has  been  a  teacher,  is  unmarried  and  resides 
with  her  father  in  Milford,  whither  the  family  removed  from 
Mendon  in   1891. 

Mrs.  Williams  was  largely  interested  in  all  educational  and 
reformatory  movements,  an  ardent  supporter  of  the  cause  of 
temperance  and  woman  suffrage,  and  in  earlier  days,  an  advo- 
cate of  the  anti-slavery  crusade.  For  a  time  she  was  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Schools  of  Mendon. 


Charlotte  Spear  Hobart,  daughter  of  John  Hobart,  whose 
ancestors  settled  in  Hingham,  and  Naomi  (Thompson)  Hobart, 
second  cousin  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  was  born  in  Marion  County, 
near  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  October  26,  1825.  She  was  a  pupil  at 
the  Oread  in  1834  and  1855.  She  was  married  May  1,  1866, 
to  Professor  A.  J.  Yawter,  an  alumnus  of  Franklin  College, 
Ind.,  who,  in  his  work  as  teacher,  held  various  important  posi- 
tions, as  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  in  LaFayette,  Ind., 
and  principal  of  seminaries  in  Indiana  and  Kentucky.  In  this 
work  his  wife  was  his  assistant.  Mrs.  Yawter,  as  stepmother 
to  Professor  Vawter's  children  by  a  former  marriage,  assisted 
in  giving  direction  to  their  education,  and  in  forming  their 
characters.  Added  to  their  own  were  two  foster  children,  who 
shared  die  same  advantages  as  die  others.  A  grandson  is  a 
student  at  Cornell.  .Another  is  preparing  for  the  University  of 
Chicago.  A  granddaughter  was  for  two  years  at  Wellesley  and 
later  was  married  to  a  business  man  in  Chicago.  Another 
granddaughter  is  traveling  in  the  (  )rient. 

Eighty-three  members  of  the  Hobarl  family  served  in  the 
Revoluti(  man    War. 

Address:    Mrs.  A.   |.  Vawter.  Hobarl   Place.  Gallaudet,  Ind. 


Pupils  from    1849    T859  IQI 

Eliza  B.  Hooper  was  the  second  daughter  of  Henry  and 
I  larriet  Hooper,  whose  ancestors  came  from  England  in  1634. 
and  settled  in  Marblehead,  Mass.  She  is  the  great-grand- 
daughter of  Genera]  John  Glover,  who  with  his  marine  regi- 
ment ferried  Washington  and  his  army  across  the  Delaware 
on  the  memorable  night  of  December  2^.  \JJ()>.  She  was  born 
in  Marblehead,  July  22,  1837,  and  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread 
in  1852  and  1853.  On  .March  r,  1880,  she  was  married  to 
Colonel  J.  H.  Bradbury  of  New  York  City.  They  have  no 
children. 

Address:    Mrs.  J.  H.  Bradbury,  22()  Main  St.,  Auburn,  Me. 

Harriet  Hooper,  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  and  Harriet 
Hooper  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  dur- 
ing 1852  and  1853.  Her  health  becoming  impaired  after  leav- 
ing school,  she  went  abroad,  hoping  the  change  of  climate  and 
the  air  of  Southern  Europe  would  prove  beneficial,  but  she 
continued  to  fail  and  lived  but  a  few  weeks  after  her  return 
home  in  1859.  She  was  a  general  favorite  and  much  beloved 
at  the  Oread,  being  always  happy,  witty  and  vivacious,  bubbling 
over  with  fun.  She  carried  sunshine  everywhere.  Her  illness 
and  early  death  brought  an  unexpected  and  great  sorrow  to  all 
who  knew  her. 

Fannie  M.  Houghton,  daughter  of  Joel  and  Mary  (Ken- 
dall) Houghton,  was  born  in  Worcester.  March  28,  1838.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  1852.  She  was  married  April  17,  1861, 
to  S.  Thurston  Wilder  of  Sterling*  Mass. 

One  child,  a  son,  Joel  Thurston  Wilder,  was  born  in  Sterling, 
April  8,   [864. 

Address:    Mrs.  S.  Thurston  Wilder,  Sterling,  Mass. 

Helen  F.  Howe  was  horn  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  August  29, 
1841.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Albert  and  Caroline  (Keith) 
Howe.  She  entered  the  (  )read  in  1855  and  remained  until 
March.  1856.  She  was  married  in  Brighton,  Mass.,  December 
17,  t86i,  to  Stephen  D.  Bennett.  Four  children  were  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennett,  three  in  Cambridge,  Mass.:  Henry  D.. 
in  September,  1862:  Stephen  II.,  in  September.  1865,  and  Helen 


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M.,  in  October,   1868.     Elizabeth  D.  was  born  in  Brookline  in 

September,   1874.     Mrs.   Bennett  has  been  much  interested  in 
the  Boston  Cooking'  School  and  the  Brookline  Friendly  Society. 
Address :    Mrs.  Stephen  D.  Bennett,  305  Walnut  St.,  Brook- 
line, Mass. 

Abbie  Crowell  Howes,  second  daughter  of  Osborn  and 
Abby  (Crowell)  Howes,  and  sister  of  Hannah  C.  Howes,  was 
born  in  South  Boston,  August  1,  1842.  She  was  at  the  Oread 
in  1852.  She  later  studied  in  Boston  schools,  and  with  private 
teachers.  For  several  years  she  was  largely  devoted  to  the 
care  of  her  aged  grandmother.  In  1875,  when  the  Associated 
Charities  of  Boston  was  organized,  she  became  an  active  worker 
and  served  on  the  Executive  Committee.  She  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Massachusetts  Hygiene 
Association,  and  gave  much  time  and  thought  to  classes  in 
"First  Aid  to  the  Injured."  Later  she  was  instrumental  in 
starting  courses  of  lectures  on  "Home  Nursing,"  and  train- 
ing classes  for  young  women  wishing  to  become  attendants  on 
the  chronic  sick  or  convalescents. 

As  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Educational  Association,  she 
was  one  of  the  committee  to  promote  the  formation  of  a  Dis- 
trict Nursing  Association,  and  was  a  leading  charter  member. 
This  noble  charity,  with  its  large  corps  of  nurses,  working  in 
the  homes  of  the  poor,  is  a  living  monument  to  her  devotion 
to  the  suffering  and  needy.  She  engaged  in  the  charitable 
work  of  Trinity  Church,  of  which  she  was  a  member,  and 
also  aided  in  the  work  of  the  Children's  Friend  Society,  and 
the  Working  Girls'  Clubs,  besides  visiting  many  poor  in  their 
homes. 

In  the  autumn  of  [894,  she  went  to  England,  planning  to 
spend  the  winter  in  London,  studying  the  charitable  systems 
and  organizations  of  the  great  metropolis. 

But  she  was  more  exhausted  from  all  the  years  of  outgiving 
than  she  or  her  friends  realized,  and  in  the  early  winter  she 
was  prostrated  by  an  illness,  from  which  she  never  recovered. 
She  died  in  Hampstead,  England,  April  5,  [895,  and  is  buried 
in    Forest    I  tills,  near    Bosti  >n. 

Outwardly,  she  was  a  most  attractive  woman;  inwardly, 
abounding  in  all  Christian  graces. 


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103 


Hannah  Crowell  Howes  was  born  in  South  Boston, 
.March  17.  1840.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Osborn  and  A.bby 
(Crowell)  Howes.  Ancestors  of  both  parents  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1638,  and  settled  on  land  grants  in  the  township  of 
Yarmouth,  Mass.,  on  Cape  Cod.  She  was  also  a  "Descendant 
of  the  Mayflower."  She  was  at  the  Oread  in  1852  and  1853. 
As  she  grew  to  womanhood  her  health  failed,  and  she  remained 
always  delicate.  She.  became  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
and  devoted  herself  to  its  interests  as  much  as  her  strength  per- 
mitted.    She  died  on  July  24.  1870. 


Harriet  Maria  Humphrey,  only  daughter  of  Willard 
Amherst  and  Harriet  (Curtis)  Humphrey,  was  born  in  Prook- 
line,  Mass..  October  19,  1835.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1854. 
On  June  7,  1859,  at  her  home  in 
Brookline,  she  was  married  to  James 
Baker,  a  merchant  of  Boston,  who 
died  in  1898.  They  had  three  chil- 
dren :  James  Eliot,  born  June  7,  i860, 
a  student  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exe- 
ter. X.  H.,  and  afterwards  at  Har- 
vard University,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1883,  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  business ;  Wil- 
lard Humphrey  was  born  December 
30.  1863;  Harvey  Humphrey,  born 
April  11,  1869.  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Roxbury  Latin  School,  en- 
tered Harvard  University  in  1887.  graduating  with  honors  in  the 
class  of  1891.  and  after  three  years  in  the  Harvard  Law  School 
became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Hayes  &  Williams  of 
Boston.  He  has  given  a  course  of  lectures  on  law  at  Harvard, 
and  been  appointed  Associate  Judge  of  the  Brookline  Court. 
Mrs.  Baker  is  a  D.  A.  R.,  and  a  member  of  several  clubs. 

Address:    Mrs.   Harriet   H.   Baker.    Newton    St..   Brookline, 
Mass. 


Mira  W.  Hurd,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Hooker) 
Hurd,  whose  ancestors  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution, 
was   born   in   Newton,    Mass.,   in    1827.     She   was   one   of  the 


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earliest  to  enter  the  Oread,  being-  a  pupil  in  1852.     Her  sister, 
Mrs.   Curtis,  now   Airs.   Osborn   Howes,  was  at  that  time  the 
Preceptress.      Miss    Hurd   has   spent   her   life   in    benefactions 
among  her  family  and  friends. 
Address:    Winchester,  Mass. 

Elizabeth  M.  Hutchinson  was  born  in  Royalston,  Mass., 
August  23,  1835.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Betsy 
(King)  Hutchinson,  and  attended  the  Oread  in  its  earliest 
years.  She  was  married  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  August  14,  1856, 
to  Admiral  P.  Stone,  LL.D.,  a  teacher  and  school  superin- 
tendent, and  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Board  of  Education.  Their  only  child,  William  C.  Stone, 
born  October  9,  1859,  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  was  married  June 
28,  1893,  to  Annie  R.  Osgood  of  Fryeburg,  Me.,  and  has  two 
children. 

Mrs.  Stone  was  prominent  in  the  Foreign  Missionary  Society 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Springfield,  having  been  its 
president  for  many  years.  She  died  in  Springfield,  Mass., 
December  9,  1899. 

Mary  L.  Jenkins  came  to  the  Oread  in  the  year  1853-54 
from  Barre,  Mass.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin and  Priscilla  (Dinsmore)  Jenkins,  and  was  born  in  Win- 
chester, N.  H. 

She  was  married  about  1871  to  Henry  Carlton,  a  mechanic, 
and  had  two  daughters.  Amy  and  Mary,  who  both  died  in  youth. 
Mrs.  Carlton  died  May  24,  1874. 

Ellen  L.  Jordan,  daughter  of  Parley  and  Sophia  (Phelps) 
Jordan,  was  born  al  New  Boston,  Conn.,  October  22,  1836. 
She  was  at  the  <  )read  during  the  year  of  1852-53,  and  then 
attended  Nichols  Academy,  Dudley,  Mass.,  for  two  years.  She 
taughl  in  that  town  till  her  marriage  in  [865  to  William  Souls, 
when  she  went  to  Xew  York  City,  where  she  has  lived  ever 
since,  spending  her  summers  at  Xew  Boston,  Conn.  She  has 
two  sons. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  Souls,  131  Camilton  Place,  New 
York  <  'it  v. 


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Sarah  L.  Keep  was  a  daughter  of  Edward  S.  Keep,  a  cotton 
merchant  of  New  (  )rleans,  of 
Northern  birth.  Her  mother,  born 
Luther,  was  the  mother  by  a  former 
marriage  of  Hon.  Cornelius  Bliss 
of  New  York  City,  a  member  of 
President  McKinley's  Cabinet.  She 
was   at   the   Oread    from    1853    to 

1855.    and    afterwards    at     Lasell  '  ifo 

Seminary,  Auburndale,  Mass.,  for 
a  year.  In  i860  she  was  married 
in  New  Orleans  to  William  H. 
Thomas.  She  died  in  a  few  years, 
leaving"  two  young  sons.  She  was 
a  woman  of  high  accomplish- 
ments   and    greatly    beloved    by    all    who    knew    her. 

Lydia  E.  Kendall,  daughter  of  George  Kendall  of  Woburn, 
Mass.,  and  Esther  (Fairbank)  Kendall  of  Dedham.  Mass.,  was 
born  November  2,  1836,  in  Sterling,  Mass..  and  was  a  pupil  at 
the  Oread  in  1852.  May  1,  1866,  she  was  married  in  Sterling  to 
Albert  H.  Newhall,  a  painter  and  decorator.  Mr.  Newhall 
served  during  the  entire  Civil  War.  and  is  a  veteran  of  the 
G.  A.  R.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature 
in  1896. 

Address :    Mrs.  A.  H,  Newhall,  Kendall  Heights,  Worcester. 

Genevieve  Kinney,  who  attended  the  Oread  for  some  time 
in  the  early  fifties,  entering  about  1853,  and  again  under  Dr. 
Pattison  in  1862,  was  born  in  Worcester,  October  2,  1846. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  H.  and  Cynthia  (Wyman) 
Kinney.  On  February  3.  1879.  she  was  married  in  Worcester 
to  James  Pickup  of  Spencer,  editor  of  the  Spencer  Sun,  who 
died  June  20,  1887.  Mrs.  Pickup  had  three  children:  William 
Allston,  born  in  Worcester  in  November,  1879;  Marion  Louise, 
born  in  Spencer,  March  7.  1881,  and  Roy  Beaumont,  born  in 
Spencer,  March  12,  1882.  The  oldest  son  died  in  Spencer, 
June  1,  1880,  and  the  other  two  children  are  still  living  in  that 
town. 

Mrs.  Pickup  died  on  May  19,  1886,  in  Spencer. 


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C.  Annah  Leland,  daughter  of  Alden  and  Annah  W. 
(Temple)  Leland,  was  born  March  3,  1840,  in  Holliston,  Mass. 
She  was  married  January  1,  1861,  at  Holliston,  to  Aratus 
Comey,  a  manufacturer. 

She  has  four  children:  Irving  W.,  born  December  18,  1863, 
at  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  married  Miss  Emma  Coombs  of  Newton, 
Mass.;  Bertrand  was  born  May  13,  1869,  at  Hopkinton;  Edith 
R.,  born  July  21,  1874.  at  Newton,  Mass.,  is  a  graduate  of 
Symond's  Kindergarten  Training  School,  and  was  married  to 
Charles  W.  Hosmer  of  Ashmont ;  Jane  L.,  born  February  5, 
1879,  at  Newton,  a  graduate  of  Boston  University  with  the 
degree  of  Ph.B.,  and  of  Simmons  College,  Boston,  is  at  present 
a  high  school  teacher. 

Address:  Mrs.  Aratus  Comey,  4  Winthrop  Ave.,  Newton, 
Mass. 

Charlotte  A.  Litchfield,  daughter  of  Festus  C.  and  Maducia 
(Hammond)  Litchfield,  was  born  in  Southbridge,  Mass., 
November  7,  1837.  Her  father  was  Treasurer  of  the  Litch- 
field Shuttle  Works  in  Southbridge. 

She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  for  two  years  under  Miss 
Dodge,  and  then  taught  for  several  years  in  Southbridge.  She 
was  married  on  October  24,  1865,  in  Southbridge  to  John  T. 
Haynes  of  Sturbridge,  Mass.  Air.  Haynes  was  then  a  grocer 
living  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  but  is  now  a  mining  promotor.  He 
had  one  child  by  a  former  marriage — John  Winslow  Haynes. 
Besides  this  son  they  have  had  three  children:  Fred  Litch- 
field, born  in  Sturbridge,  December  29,  1867;  Harry  L.,  born 
in  Dorchester,  April  13.  1870,  and  Clarence  F.,  born  at  Wollas- 
ton  Heights,  Quincy,  Mass.,  November  29,  1872.  Clarence  was 
married  March  2,  1904.  Mrs.  Haynes  has  been  active  in  local 
church  and  charity  work. 

Address:  Mrs.  John  T.  Haynes,  7716  Fggleston  Ave., 
Auburn  Park,  Chicago,  Til. 

M.  Cordelia  Loring,  daughter  of  Joshua  Loring  of  Bos- 
ton, for  more  than  fifty  years  connected  with  the  lllackstone 
National  Hank  of  Boston,  as  Cashier,  President  and  Director, 
was  born  in  Boston,  July  2,  1837.  Her  mother  was  Margaret 
Sprague  (Smith)  Loring. 


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107 


She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1854  and  1855,  and  but  for 
an  attack  of  illness,  would  have  returned  for  another  year  and 
graduated  in  the  class  of   1856.     In   1858  she  was  married   in 

Chelsea  by  Rev.  Dr.  S.  F.  Smith, 
author  of  "America,"  to  Lyman 
Beecher  Brooks  of  Salem,  a  manu- 
facturer of  bank  checks.  They  have 
had  four  children:  Margaret  Cor- 
delia, born  in  Salem,  July  11,  1859. 
died  at  the  age  of  five  years  on 
August  <;.  1864:  Lyman  Loring, 
born  in  Salem.  April  26.  1861.  at 
present  a  banker  and  broker  in  State 
Street,  Boston,  was  married  on  the 
t  wcnt\ -fifth  anniversary  of  the  mar- 
riage of  his  father  and  mother,  and 
by  the  same  clergyman  who  united 
them,  to  Kate  Glover  of  Ypsilanti.  Mich.,  and  has  one  daughter  : 
Frederic  Manning,  born  in  Chelsea,  June  17.  1865,  graduated 
from  Harvard  in  the  class  of  1889,  from  the  Episcopal  Theologi- 
cal School  at  Cambridge.  Mass..  in  1892,  was  ordained  to  the 
ministry  in  1893,  married  Louise  Bruce  of  Xorth  Attleboro. 
Mass.,  and  has  one  daughter  ;  Joshua  Loring,  born  in  Brookline. 
Mass.,  January  19,  1868,  now  Presi- 
dent of  the  Brooks  Bank  Xote  Co. 
of  Springfield.  Mass.,  married  Mar- 
garet Lillian  Robinson  of  Gardner, 
Me.,  and  has  two  sons.  An  adopted 
daughter  lived  to  grow  up  and  to 
marry,  but  died  in  giving  birth  to  her 
first  child,  deeply  mourned  by  her 
adopted  parents.  Six  grandchildren 
have  been  born  into  the  family,  four 
of  whom  are  living. 

Mrs.  Brooks'  home  is  in  Boston, 
where  generations  of  her  ancestors 
have  lived  since  the  earliest  davs  of 

the  Colony.  Their  graves  are  green  in  Copp's  Hill.  King's 
Chapel,  and  the  Granary  burial  grounds.  Many  of  them  served 
in  the  Colonial  Wars  and  Councils,  and  later  their  sons  took 
part  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 


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Her  grand-uncle  assisted  at  the  Tea  Party  in  Boston  harbor 
in  1773.  Her  great-grandfather  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  and  of  the  Convention  which  ratified  the 
Federal  Constitution.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  May- 
flower Descendants,  through  seven  lines,  and  a  Daughter  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

Mr.  Brooks  counts  among  his  ancestors  Rev.  John  Cotton, 
who  left  St.  Botolph's  Church  in  Boston,  England,  and  coming 
to  Massachusetts  Colony,  established  the  first  church  in  Boston, 
Governor  Dudley,  Governor  Bradstreet,  and  our  first  poetess, 
"The  Tenth  Muse,"    Sweet  Anne  Dudley  Bradstreet. 

Mrs.  Brooks  has  been  interested  in  the  Associated  Charities 
of  Boston.  For  fourteen  years  she  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Befriending  Committee  of  the  Woman's  Education  and  Indus- 
trial Union.  She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Twentieth  Century 
Club,  and  a  helper  in  church  work. 

Address:    Mrs.  Lyman  B.  Brooks,  15  Arlington  St.,  Boston. 

Ellen  Louise  Mallon  was  at  the  Oread  but  a  short  time. 
Her  health,  which  was  delicate  when  she  entered  in  1853,  soon 
caused  her  to  return  home.  She  was  an  orphan,  residing  with 
relatives  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where  she  died  a  few  months 
later.  She  was  highly  gifted  intellectually,  and  would  have 
made  a  brilliant  woman. 

Caroline  A.  Mann,  daughter  of  Nehemiah  P.  and  Eliza- 
beth M.  (Pittman)  Mann,  was  born  in  South  Boston,  Mass. 
Her  ancestors  came  from  England  before  the  Revolutionary 
War  and  settled  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  where  the  Sherburnes, 
to  which  family  her  mother's  mother  belonged,  were  distin- 
guished in  the  early  history  of  the  town  and  state. 

She  attended  the  Oread  in  1856,  and  on  October  5,  1864,  was 
married  in  South  Boston  to  Dr.  Robert  Provan,  a  practising 
physician.  Dr.  Provan  has  been  a  member  of  the  Boston  School 
Committee  and  of  the  Boston  Common  Council,  and  is  Past 
Presidenl  of  the  British  Charitable  Society. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Provan  had  four  children,  only  one  of  whom, 
the  eldest,  Lizzie  [dalia  Provan,  is  now  living.  She  is  a  suc- 
cessful    school    teacher   in    Boston.     Another   daughter,   Carrie 


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Alice,  died  in   1870,  at  the  age  of  two  months.     Mrs.   Provan's 
two  sons.  Albert  William  and  Robert  Alexander,  both  died  in 

[902,  Albert,  who  was  connected 
with  a  hank  in  Boston,  and  then 
with  a  newspaper  in  Denver,  Col., 
on  March  11,  and  Robert,  who 
was  in  the  jewelry  business  and  mar- 
ried, on  November  29.  An  adopted 
daughter,  Beatrice,  was  married  to 
\Y.  H.  Parks,  and  lives  in  North 
Cambridge,  Mass.  Mrs.  Provan  was 
thoroughly  interested  in  church  and 
charitable  work,  and  was  for  main 
years  Secretary  of  the  Ladies  Auxil- 
iary of  the  New  England  Evangel- 
istic Association. 
She  died  in  Prookline,  Mass.,  March  10,   lyoi. 


Sarah  A.  Mayo,  daughter  of  William  Mayo  and  Sarah 
Dennis,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Dudley,  Mass.,  February  2~ , 
1835.  Among  her  ancestors  was  the  Rev.  John  Mayo,  who  was 
ordained  Colleague  with  Rev.  John 
Lothrop  at  Barnstable  in  1640.  He 
afterwards  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  was  installed  the  first 
minister  of  the  North  Church.  The 
Dennis  family  were  all  seafaring 
folk,  belonging  to  the  quaint  old 
port  of  Marblehead. 

Sarah  Mayo  was  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  [852  and  1853.  After- 
wards for  two  years  she  was  at  the 
Salisbury  Mansion  School  in  Wor- 
cester, where  she  was  graduated 
Valedictorian  of  her  class. 

On  June  28.  1858.  she  was  married  in  Worcester  to  Frank 
W.  Harrington,  a  merchant  of  that  city.  A  son.  Charles 
Mayo,  born  January  21,  1867,  is  m  the  architectural  depart- 
ment   of    Harvard    University  ;     a    daughter.    Isabel    Kingsley, 


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born  April  10,  1874,  received  a  special  education  in  Music,  was 
married  April  6,  1899,  to  William  G.  Allen  of  Worcester,  and 
has  one  son. 

Of  her  own  life,  Mrs.  Harrington  says:    "In  my  children's 

early  years,  we  walked  in  fairy 
land,  led  by  Hans  Andersen  ;  we 
traveled  with  Alice  in  Wonderland  ; 
went  to  India  with  Kipling.  As  we 
grew  older  we  journeyed  through 
England  with  Dickens,  and  wan- 
dered o'er  'banks  and  braes/  with 
Burns.  With  the  aid  of  photo- 
graphs and  stereoscope  we  have 
admired  the  finest  scenery  of  the 
world.  Brown  and  Perry  have 
made  us  familiar  with  the  works 
of  master  artists.  I  have  been 
queen  in  my  own  little  realm,  with 
willing,  loving  subjects,  and  have  endeavored  to  rule  with  truth 
and  justice.  'Story,  I  have  none  to  tell"!  I  have  had  plenty 
of  flowers,  books  and  music,  many  true  friends.  What  could 
one  ask  for,  more?" 

Address:    Mrs.    Frank   W.   Harrington,   22  John   St.,   Wor- 
cester, Mass. 


Katharine  C.  Mcintosh  entered 
the  Oread  in  1855  from  Xew  York. 

After  leaving  that  institution  she 
taught  school  in  Chicago,  111.,  until 
her  marriage  to  M.  F.  Smith.  They 
lived  in  Dowagiac,  Mich.,  until  1866, 
when  Mr.  Smith  suffered  severe 
losses  by  tire,  and  the  shock  result- 
ing affected  his  health.  They  moved 
to  a  farm  near  South  Haven,  Mich., 
and  afterwards  lived  in  that  town  for 
a  number  of  years,  until  the  High 
School  education  of  their  three  chil- 
dren was  completed.  After  ibis  they 
removed   to  Colorado,   where   Mrs.   Smith 


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daughter.      She  came  East  again,  and.  in   1892.  married    Mr. 
Gray  in  Chicago.     Mr.  Gray  died  in  1898. 

She  has  only  one  son  now  living:,  a  manufacturer  of  steam 


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condensers  used  in  manufacturing  plants.  He  was  married  in 
1894.  and  has  three  children.  His  residence  is  Kansas  City. 
An  adopted  daughter  is  also  married  and  living  in  Beaver 
Falls.  Penn. 

Address:    Mrs.  Katharine  C.  Gray.  South  Haven.  Mich. 

Amelia  Merriam,    daughter  of  Timothy  Merriam  of  Graf- 
ton, and  his  wife.  Lucy  March,  of  Millburv,   Mass..  was  born 


in  Grafton  in  1833.  and  was  one  of  the  early  pupils  at  the  Oread. 
Her  life  until   1900  was  devoted  to  teaching,  with  the  excep- 


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tion  of  one  year  spent  in  Europe  for  rest  and  recreation.  She 
was  for  many  years  in  Cambridge  Academy,  Cambridge,  N.  Y. 
For  nine  years  she  had  a  Home  School  for  girls,  in  Bristol, 
Penn.,  on  the  Delaware.  On  her  return  from  Europe  she  took 
the  position  of  Preceptress  at  Washburn  College,  Topeka,  Kan. 

Her  last  work,  and  the  one  which  she  considers  the  best  and 
most  fruitful,  was  in  connection  with  the  American  Missionary 
Association  in  the  South.  For  six  years  she  was  Principal  of 
the  Allen  Normal  School  in  Thomasville,  Ga. 

Address :  Westboro,  Mass. 


Anna  Parker  Merriam,  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Caro- 
line (Parker)  Merriam,  was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.  She  traces 
her  ancestry  to  William  Merriam  of  Hadlowe,  Kent  County, 
England,  some  of  whose  descendants  came  to  this  country  in 
1630.  Her  maternal  ancestry  is  traced  from  Lord  Charles 
Howe  of  England.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she  was  a  pupil  at 
the  Salisbury  Mansion  School  in  Worcester,  and  at  Miss 
Green's  Young  Ladies  School,  New  York  City.  Later  she 
spent  a  short  time  at  the  Ladies'  College.  Worcester. 

She  taught  in  the  South  five  years  and,  in  1873,  was  married 
at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to  L.  E.  Brooks  of  Columbus,  Ga. 

Address:    Mrs.  L.  E.  Brooks,  49  William  St.,  Worcester. 


895,  K 


Catharine  Amelia  Merrifield, 
daughter  of  William  Trowbridge 
and  Margaret  (  Brigham)  Merri- 
field. was  born  in  Worcester,  Jan- 
uary 2,  1834.  She  was  a  pupil  at 
the  (  >read,  entering  in   1850. 

(  )n  May  20.  1857,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Rev.  Edward  W.  French 
of  Jersey  City,  X.  J.  She  died 
June  11,  [858,  leaving  an  infant 
son,  Edward  Clement,  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  [858,  win)  lived  In  mature 
years,  and  was  married.  lie  died 
a  son,  Gu)    Merrilield   French,  born  in    [889. 


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Elizabeth  B.  Miller,  only  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  S. 
P.  Miller  of  Worcester,  was  a  student  at  the  Oread  in  the  years 
1852-54.  She  was  afterwards,  for  a  year,  at  Lasell  Seminary, 
Auburndale,  Mass. 

She  was  married  to  Henry  A.  Dyke,  a  native  of  Providence, 
R.  I.,  then  living  in  New  York.  They  had  two  daughters.  Both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dyke  died  in  Orange,  X.  J.,  at  a  comparatively 
early  age.  Mrs.  Dyke  was  a  conscientious  and  earnest  student. 
of  great  nobility  of  character,  most  lovable  and  charming  as 
girl  and  woman. 


Mary  Jane  Milliken  was  born  in  Sharon,  X.  PL.  June  16, 
1833.  She  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Rachel  (  Nutting) 
Milliken.  and  entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  185 1.  \n  the 
spring  of  1852  she  left  school  and 
was  married  in  Philadelphia,  Penn.. 
on  August  27  of  the  same  year, 
to  Calvin  G.  Chadwick,  a  school 
teacher  and  farmer.-  They  had  four 
children:  Leslie,  born  July  1,  1857; 
Herbert,  born  September  4.  [861  ; 
Lewellyn,  born  Xovember  6,  1867, 
all  in  East  Jaffrey,  X.  H.,  and 
Mabelle,  born  August  9,  1873,  in 
Fitchburg,  Mass.  Leslie  and  Her- 
bert died  in  East  Jaffrey,  X.  H.. 
when  very  young.  Lewellyn  is 
married  and  living  in  Fitchburg. 
Mabelle  graduated  from  the  Fitchburg  High  School  and  then 
attended  the  Worcester  Xormal  School.  She  taught  school  for 
six  years,  until  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Hill.  She  resides  in 
Fitchburg. 

Mrs.  Chadwick  died  in  Fitchburg.  April  18,  1896. 


Abigail  C.  Morse  was  at  the  Oread  in  1852  and  1853. 
Her  home  was  in  Westminster,  Conn.,  where  she  was  born 
March  4,  1840.  Her  father  was  Mason  Morse,  and  her  mother 
Henrietta  Safford.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she  was  a  student 
for  awhile  at   Mount  Holvoke   Seminary,   but   was   obliered  to 


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leave  before  completing  the  course  on  account  of  trouble  with 
her  eyes.  She  died  February  22,  1903,  in  Philadelphia.  X.  Y., 
and  was  buried  in  Westminster. 


Harriet  A.  Munroe,  daughter  of  Allen  K.  and  Mary  Anne 
(Chase)  Munroe,  was  born  in  Bristol,  R.  I.,  August  2,  1837. 
Her  mother  was  a  native  of  Providence,  R.  I. 

Miss  Munroe  was  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  the  year  1855-56.  In  1858 
she  was  married  at  St.  Michael's 
Church  in  Bristol.  R.  L,  to  Frederick 
E.  Abbott,  a  native  of  Barre,  Mass. 
Mr.  Abbott  attended  Thetford  Acad- 
emy, and  is  now7  an  attorney  in  Wor- 
cester. His  office  is  at  14  Clark's 
Block. 

They  have  had  eight  children,  five 
of  whom  are  living.  All  were  born 
in  Worcester :  Frederick  Carleton, 
born  October  13,  1859,  died  in  1861  ; 
Xellie  Amelia,  born  November  21,  1862,  was  educated  at  Miss 
Bassett's  private  school,  and  is  living  at  home  ;  Frederick  Estes, 
born  December  28,  1864,  was  graduated  from  the  Shrewsbury 
High  School  and  Hinman's  Business 
College,  and  is  a  farmer  in  Boylston, 
Mass.  ;  ( irace  Marion,  born  January 
4,  1866,  died  when  seven  months 
old  :  Lillian  Augusta,  born  Septem- 
ber 13,  1868,  died  at  the  age  of 
twelve;  Harry  Carleton,  born  March 
12.  1870.  a  graduate  of  the  Shrews- 
bury High  School  and  Nichols  Acad- 
emy (Dudley,  Mass.)  is  a  lumber 
dealer  in  Boston;  Edward  E.,  born 
November  3,  1872,  was  graduated 
from  the  Shrewsbury  High  School 
and  the  College  of  Pharmacy  in  Boston,  and  is  with  the  Burn- 
ham  Iodine  Co.  of  Boston;  Harriet  Mabelle,  burn  June  [9, 
[875,  a  graduate  of  the  Worcester  Classical  High  School,  is 
an  artist,  her  special  field  being  china  painting  and  painting  in 
oil-.     She  lives  at  home. 


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Through  her  great-grandfather  Mrs.  Abbott  is  eligible  to 
membership  in  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Address:  Mrs.  Frederick  E.  Abbott.  15  Charlton  St.,  Wor- 
cester. 

Susan  Murray,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Susan  (Harlow) 
Murray,  was  born  in  Kempt.  Nova  Scotia,  in  1831.  Her  mother 
was  a  descendant  of  T.  Cushman,  who  came  over  in  the  May- 
flower, was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister  in  Plymouth. 
and  became  ruling  elder  of  the  church. 

She  attended  the  Oread  in  the  year  1856.  (  )n  April  10.  1866, 
she  was  married  at  Milton,  N.  S..  to  Duncan  McRae,  a  business 
man.  They  have  one  daughter,  Isabella,  born  in  Milton,  N.  S.. 
March  22,  1867.  She  was  educated  in  Park  College.  Mo.,  and 
taught  there  for  several  years,  until  her  marriage  to  Merlin  C. 
Findlay,  Professor  of  Biology  at  Park  College. 

Mrs.  McRae  has  been  an  active  worker  in  her  own  church. 

Address:    Mrs.  Duncan  McRae,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Lizzie  Muzzy  came  to  the  Oread  from  Bangor.  Me.,  in 
[855. 

On  April  19,  1859.  she  was  married  to  William  D.  Washburn, 
then  a  lawyer  settled  in  Minneapolis.  Mr.  Washburn  was  a 
graduate  of  Bowdoin  in  the  class  of  1854.  was  United  States 
Surveyor-General  of  Minnesota  from  1861-65.  Later  he  became 
largely  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  flour,  and  was  con- 
nected for  years  with  the  Washburn  &  Crosby  flour  mills. 
He  is  now  stockholder  and  director  in  the  Pillsbury-Washburn 
Co.  He  was  the  originator  and  promoter  and  for  many  years 
president  of  the  Minneapolis  and  St.  Louis  Railroad,  and  also 
projector  and  builder  of  the  St.  Paul  and  Sault  Ste.  Marie  Rail- 
road, of  which  he  was  president  until  1889.  He  is  now  presi- 
dent of  the  Bismarck.  Washburn  and  Great  Falls  Railway 
Company. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Minnesota  legislature,  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress,  and  United  States  Senator,  and  is  President 
of  the  Universalist  National  Convention. 

Their  son.  William  Drew  Washburn.  Jr.,  born  in  St.  Paul. 
Minn..  April  3,  1863.  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy 
CAndover,  Mass.).  and  is  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  class  of 


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1888.  He  was  married  at  Portland,  Ore.,  September  25,  1890, 
and  is  now  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Minneapolis.  He  has 
been  more  or  less  interested  in  politics  in  Minneapolis  and 
Washington,  and  has  published  articles  in  a  large  number  of 
newspapers  and  periodicals. 

Address :   Mrs.  William  D.  Washburn,  Fairoaks,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 


Abbie    C.    Newton,    daughter  of  Daniel  F.  and  Amie  A. 

(Bowman)  Newton  of  Westboro,  Mass.,  was  born  in  Westboro, 

December  7,  1836.  Her  father  was 
a  successful  manufacturer  of  boots 
and  shoes.  For  twenty-seven  years, 
beginning  in  1851,  he  was  Deputy 
Sheriff  for  Worcester  County,  and 
he  was  very  prominent  in  town 
affairs,  having  held  the  position  of 
moderator  for  sixteen  consecutive 
years.  He  also  served  at  various 
times  as  selectman,  collector  of  taxes, 
and  constable. 

Miss  Newton  was  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  1852  and  1853.  She  was 
married  in  Westboro,  December  27, 
1876,  to  Wilbur  E.  Forbes,  a  suc- 
cessful drygoods  merchant  of  that 
place.  In  1885,  on  account  of  his 
health,  Mr.  Forbes  entered  into  the 
commission  business,  which  took  him 
and  Mrs.  Forbes  across  the  conti- 
nent to  California  in  1892.  Their 
journey  West  occupied  them  nearly 
a  year,  and  all  the  principal  cities  of 
the  West  and  South  were  visited. 
In  [893  Mr.  Forbes  went  into  the 
insurance  business. 

Mrs.  Forbes  was  a  great  lover  and  reader  of  books,  and  she 
was  considered  among  the  townspeople  an  authority  on  literary 
matters.     She  was  also  a  lover  of  the  Fine  Arts,  and  a  sympa- 
thetic and  discerning  critic  of  works  of  art,  especially  paintings. 
She  died  in  Westboro,  November  22,  [Q03. 


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Helena  Parker,  who  came  to  the  Oread  from  Bangor,  Me., 
in  1852,  was  married  to  Theodore  E.  Studley,  now  of  the  Vul- 
canized Rubber  Co.,  New  York  City,  and  died  in   1866. 

Sarah  Patch,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  Tiller  (Sprague) 
Patch,  was  born  in  Devonshire,  England,  in  1836.      During  her 
childhood  the  family  resided  in  London.     Later,  her  father,  who 
was  a  contractor,   removed   to  the 
United  States,  and  her  home   was 
in  Williamstown,  N.  J.      She  was 
a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in   1854  and 
1855.      She    afterwards    continued 
her  studies,  and  was  graduated  at 
Fort  Edward  Institute.  X.  Y.     She 
was   married   at    Fort   Edward    to 
Henry    K.    Bugbee,    formerly    of 
Woodstock.  Conn. 

She  engaged  in  teaching  with 
him,  occupying  the  position  of 
Vice  Principal,  in  the  academy  of 
which    he    was    Principal.       After 

four  years  at  the  academy  she  became  a  teacher  in  the  schools 
of  Williamstown,  where  she  continued  teaching  for  thirty-one 
years.  When,  in  1896,  she  resigned,  she  was  honored  by  the 
Board  of  Education  and  the  citizens  with  a  reception,  at  which 
she  was  presented  with  a  beautifully  engraved  set  of  resolu- 
tions and  a  fine  piece  of  jewelry. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bugbee  have  three  daughters,  all  of  whom 
finished  their  education  at  the  State  Normal  School  of  Xew 
Jersey.  The  eldest  is  married.  Mr.  Bugbee  is  Surveyor,  Con- 
vex ancer  and  State  Commissioner  of  deeds. 

Address:    Mrs.  Henry  K.  Bugbee,  Williamstown.  X.  J. 

Hannah  B.  Peters,  daughter  of  Judge  Onslow  Peters,  a 
lawyer  of  note  of  Peoria,  111.,  and  his  wife,  Hannah  Parkman 
Tvler.  was  born  in  Peoria  in  1839.  She  was  at  the  Oread  in 
1S54. 

In  1858.  she  was  married  at  Westboro.  Mass..  to  John  T. 
Rollins,  a  banker  and  planter.  Two  sons  and  a  daughter  were 
born   to  them:     Paul   Eugene,   born   in    i860,   was   married   to 


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Nora  Graham  in  1882,  and  died  in  1883  ;  Onslow  Peters,  born 
in  1864,  is  a  planter;  Gertrude  was  married  in  1893  to  J. 
Millar  Wilson,  a  Scotchman.  Mrs.  Rollins  has  been  constantly 
at  work  in  her  home  in  Florida,  among  the  colored  people 
around  her.  and  has  been  active  in  the  work  of  the  Episcopal 
Church. 

Address :    Mrs.  John  T.  Rollins,  Fort  George  Island,  Fla. 

Oriana  Frances  Phetteplace,  daughter  of  Simon  W. 
Phetteplace  and  Sarah  Emily  Mowry,  his  wife,  both  of  English 
descent,  was  born  in  Smithfield,  R.  I.,  in  1846.  She  was  at 
the  Oread  through  1856  and  1857. 

On  November  26,  1867,  she  was  married  in  Worcester  to 
Francis  W.  Blacker,  a  shoe  manufacturer.  A  daughter,  Alice 
Louise,  born  to  them  July  18,  1876,  died  May  10,  1881.  A 
second  daughter,  Helen  Frances,  born  June  22,  1878,  was  edu- 
cated in  Miss  Lewisson's  School  in  Worcester,  and  in  the 
Cambridge  School,  Cambridge,  Mass.  Mrs.  Blacker  has  been 
interested  and  engaged  in  the  work  of  the  Associated  Charities. 

Address:    Mrs.   Francis  W.   Blacker,  Worcester. 


Evelyn  G.  Pond,  the  daughter  of  Sabin  Peters  and  Rhoda 
(Grinnell)  Pond,  was  born  in  Woonsocket,  R.  L,  May  3,  1841, 
and  died  June  14.  1875,  She  was  a  student  at  the  Oread  in 
1855-56. 

Hannah  Daniels  Pond,  daugh- 
ter of  Eli  and  Mari  (  Dullard) 
Pond,  was  born  ( )ctober  28,  1838, 
in  Woonsocket,  R.  I.  Her  father 
was  uncle  of  Eli  Thayer,  founder 
of  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute. 
She  was  a  pupil  in  T849,  and 
again  in  1854  and  1856.  On  May 
1.  [861,  at  her  home  in  Mendon, 
Mass.,  she  was  married  to  David 
Andrews  Taft,  a  business  man. 
Their  children  were:  Alice  Ger- 
trude, born  in  Woonsocket,  Jan- 
uary 30.  [870,  anil  Charles  Edward, 


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born  in  Woonsocket,  December  25,   1873,  both  of  whom  died 
in    early    childhood,    Anna  Inez,    born    in    Worcester,    July    5, 

1876,  and  Arthur  Erving,  also  horn 
in  Worcester,  December  28,  1881. 
Anna  Inez  was  educated  in  the 
Worcester  English  High  School, 
and  is  now  Clerk  in  the  School 
Department,  City  Hall,  Worcester. 
Arthur  Irving  was  prepared  for 
college  at  the  Worcester  Classical 
High  School,  and  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  the  class  of  1905. 
Mrs.  Taft  has  been  active  in 
church  work,  and  in  choir  and  Sun- 
day School. 
Address:    Mrs.  David  A.  Taft.  28  Windsor  St..  Worcester. 


Jane  F.  Porter,  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1855,  was  the 
daughter  of  Judge  Porter  of  Queechy,  Vt.  She  was  married 
in  1856  to  Charles  Thomas  Smith 
of  Colchester,  Conn.,  where  the 
family  resided  until  1884,  when  they 
removed  to  Boston,  and  later  to 
Brookline,  Mass.  Three  sons  and 
one  daughter  were  born  in  Colches- 
ter. The  two  elder  sons  were  edu- 
cated there  at  the  Bacon  Academy. 
The  younger  son  and  daughter  fin- 
ished in  Boston.  Two  sons  live  in 
Brookline.  with  business  interests  in 
Boston,  one  son  is  in  Chicago,  and 
the  daughter  in   Minneapolis. 

Mr.   Smith  died  in   1S88,  Mrs.  Smith  in   1898. 


F.  Louise  Preston  came  to  the  Oread  from  South  Cov- 
entry. Conn.,  in  1853.  She  was  the  daughter  of  John  H.  and 
Fanny  M.  (  Manning)  Preston,  and  was  born  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  in  1839.  She  died  soon  after  leaving  the  Oread,  when 
only  nineteen  vears  old. 


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Mary  G.  Preston,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Fanny  M. 
(Manning)  Preston,  was  horn  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1842. 
She  attended  the  Oread  part  of  the  year  1853-54,  and  after- 
wards studied  at  Wheaton  Seminary  in  Norton,  Mass.  She 
was  married  in  1877  at  South  Coventry,  Conn.,  to  Walter 
Briggs,  who  is  in  the  silk  business.  Their  only  son,  Walter 
Preston,  born  at  South  Coventry  in  1878,  was  graduated  from 
Columbia  University  in  1900,  and  died  in  1902,  at  the  very 
beginning  of  a  most  promising  career. 

Address :  Mrs.  Walter  Briggs,  30  West  25th  St.,  New  York- 
City. 

Salona  Aldrich  Rawson,  daughter  of  George  and  Lois 
(Aldrich)    Rawson,  was  born   May  31,   1837,  in  the  town   of 

Mendon,  Mass.,  where 
have  resided  seven  gen- 
erations of  her  family, 
beginning  with  William, 
and  his  brother.  Rev. 
Grindall  Rawson,  a  noted 
minister.  These  were  sons 
of  Edward  Rawson,  who 
for  thirty-six  years  was 
Secretary  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colon)-. 

Her  education  was  be- 
gun in  her  native  town. 
She  was  a  pupil  at  the 
Oread  in  1853.  In  1854, 
going  on  a  visit  to  rela- 
tives in  Beloit.  Wise,  she 
was  induced  to  remain, 
and  enter  the  1  > e  1  o i t 
Female  Seminary,  where 
she  graduated  in   1856. 

In    1859  she  was  mar- 
ried   in    Beloit    to    Ellery 
Bicknell  Crane.      In  1863 
Mr.  and    Mrs.  Crane  went   to   Boston.     Pater  they  removed  to 
Worcester,  where  Mr.  Crane  established  a  lumber  business. 


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Mrs.  Crane  died  in  Worcester  on  April  4.  1900.  She  early 
identified  herself  with  the  Church  of  the  Unity  in  Worcester, 
representing  that  church  on  the  Board  of  Management  of  the 
Children's  Friend  Society.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Worcester 
Woman's  Club,  and  of  the  Antiquarian  Society. 

Rebecca  P.  Remington,  eldest  daughter  of  Samuel  Tower 
Remington  and  Rebecca  W.  Potter,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Paw- 
tuxet,  R.  I.,  December  16,  1836.  After  a  year  at  the  Warren 
Laches  Seminary  she  spent  a  year  at  the  Oread,  entering  in  the 
spring  of  1853. 

Soon  after  leaving  school  she  was  married  to  Alpheus  Water- 
man of  Providence,  and  had  four  sons.  She  died  in  1891,  after 
a  brief  illness. 

Charlotte  K.  Rice,  daughter  of  John  and  Miriam  (  Howe) 
Rice,  was  born  in  Xorthboro,  Mass.,  December  24,  1833.  She 
was  at  the  Oread  in  1852. 

In  1857  she  was  married  in  Xorthboro  to  J.  Henry  Robin- 
son, a  physician  in  active  practice  in  the  town  of  Southboro  for 
fortv  vears.  Two  sons,  their  onlv  children,  born  in  Southboro, 
Frank  Henry.  March  7,  1862,  and  Richard  Shaw,  November 
ii,  1868.  were  drowned  in  Boothbay  Harbor,  August  5,  1895. 
Frank,  the  elder,  was  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Medical  College 
at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Address :    Mrs.  J.  H.  Robinson,  Southboro.  Mass. 

Judith  Anna  Rice,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1850  and  left 
in  1852.  was  the  daughter  of  Sewall  and  Hannah  Drew  (Wash- 
burn) Rice.  Her  maternal  ancestry  dates  back  to  the  Pil- 
grims of  the  Mayflower.  Her  father's  great-great-grandfather 
was  Jonas  Rice,  the  first  settler  in  Worcester,  whose  memory 
that  city  has  recently  honored  by  placing  a  large  boulder,  suita- 
bly inscribed,  on  the  homestead  he  established.  On  this  home- 
stead she  was  born,  February  15,  1834.  After  leaving  the 
Oread  she  taught  school  in  Utica.  X.  Y.,  for  seven  years.  On 
April  15.  1861,  she  was  married  to  Aaron  M.  Powell.  Mr. 
Powell  was  a  devoted  advocate  of  the  anti-slavery  cause,  and  for 
several  vears  was  the  editor  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Standard.     In 


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December,  1872,  he  was  elected  District  Secretary  of  the 
"National  Temperance  Society  and  Publication  House,"  and 
editor  of  the  National  Temperance  Advocate,  and  continued  to 
fill  these  offices  till  May,  1893.  He  was  for  many  years  an 
earnest  supporter,  both  by  pen  and  tongue,  of  the  cause  of  Peace 
and  International  Arbitration,  and  was  the  founder  and  Presi- 
dent until  his  death  of  the  American  Purity  Alliance.  He  was 
the  editor  of  its  organ.  The  Philanthropist,  and  traveled  exten- 
sively in  this  country  and  in  Europe,  speaking  for  the  promo- 
tion of  social  purity. 

In  all  his  labors  Mr.  Powell  had  the  constant  sympathy  and 
assistance  of  his  wife.  She  has  written  and  published  much 
along  philanthropic  lines,  and  is  at  present  Treasurer  and  Secre- 
tary of  the  American  Purity  Alliance. 

Mr.  Powell  died  suddenly  May  13,  1899,  while  addressing  a 
meeting  in  Philadelphia.  Their  only  child,  a  daughter,  born  in 
Ghent,  X.  Y..  February  6,  1864,  died  December  16,  1867,  in 
New  York  City. 

Address :  Mrs.  Anna  Rice  Powell,  243  East  6th  St.,  Plain- 
field,  N.  J. 


Sarah  Jane  Rice  of  Clinton,  Mass.,  was  born  in  1832.     She 
was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1851   and   1852,  leaving  early  in 

1853,  on  account  of  illness.  She 
was  always  delicate  and  consump- 
tion at  last  developed.  But  so 
anxious  was  she  to  finish  the  course 
of  study  begun  that  she  remained 
in  school  until  a  few  weeks  before 
her  death. 

She  was  lovely  in  character  and 

highly     gifted,     being     remarkably 

proficient  in  mathematics,  a  subject 

in   which   she  gave  instruction   for 

a  time  at  the  Oread.     She  was  one 

of    the    pupils    chosen    to    prepare 

papers  to  be  enclosed  in  the  walls 

of   one   of   the   small   center  towers  of  the   Castle,   when   this 

pari  of  the  structure,  the  last  to  be  completed,  was  commenced 

in   [851. 


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Abigail  Scudder  Richardson  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in 
the  year  1854-55.  She  was  born  in  Princeton.  Mass.,  August 
26,  1838.  Her  father.  Captain  Josiah  Richardson,  a  native  of 
Cape  Cod.  was  a  heroic  seaman.      I  ler  mother  was  Sophia  Howe 

On  December  28.  1870.  she  was  married  to  Lloyd  B.  Kimball. 
In  a  few  short  months  the  bride  became  a  widow.  Mr.  Kimball 
died  May  8.  1871.  She  lived  until  June  25.  1901,  her  life  filled 
with  good  deeds  of  kindness  and  charity,  while  her  literary 
taste  and  her  facile  pen  were  used  for  public  benefit,  in  contribu- 
tions to  magazines  and  papers,  and  in  helpful  and  charming 
correspondence  with  her  friends. 

Mary  A.  Rockwood,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  the  spring 
term  of  1854.  was  the  daughter  of  L.  Leander  and  Mary  A. 
(Morse)  Rockwood.  and  was  born  in  Upton,  Mass.,  January 
20,  1840.  On  March  31.  1858,  she  was  married  in  Upton  to 
Albert  T.  Whitney,  who  has  been  engaged  in  the  boot  and  sin  >e 
business,  and  in  agriculture.  Mrs.  Whitney  has  no  children. 
She  has  been  an  active  church  worker. 

Address:    Mrs.  Albert  T.  Whitney,  34  Cutler  St..  Worcester. 

Virginia  H.  Rossiter,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from 
January,  1855,  till  July  of  the  same  year,  was  born  in  Brandon, 
Vt.  Her  father  was  Josiah  Rossiter.  a  descendant  of  Edward 
Rossiter,  who  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  fleet  of  eleven 
ships  that  came  to  this  country  in  1630.  Her  mother  was 
Electa  (Barlow)  Rossiter.  a  grandniece  of  Joel  Barlow. 

Miss  Rossiter  was  married  in  1859  in  Brandon.  Yt.,  to  D.  W. 
Prime.  Mr.  Prime  is  president  of  the  Brandon  Kaolin  and 
Paint  Co..  has  been  also  a  dentist,  and  interested  in  marble 
works  and  in  mining.  Carroll  Rossiter  Prime  is  their  only 
child. 

Mrs.  Prime  has  been  active  in  all  village  home  work,  and  has 
written  letters  from  abroad,  and  papers  on  various  subjects  for 
the  local  club. 

Address:    Mrs.  D.  W.  Prime,  Brandon.  Yt. 

Annie  Woodbury  Saville,  daughter  of  David  and  Anne 
(Leonard)  Saville.  was  born  at  Annisquam,  Mass..  July  8.  1838. 
She  attended  the  Oread  in   1857-58,  and  was  married  at  Lex- 


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ington,  Mass.,  on  December  13,  i860,  to  David  Wood  Muzzy, 
who  is  interested  in  real  estate.  They  have  had  six  children, 
all  born  in  Lexington:  Benjamin,  born  September  19,  1866, 
died  in  1885;  Susan  W.  was  born  July  20,  1868;  David  S., 
born  October  9,  1870,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1893,  now  a 
teacher  in  New  York  City,  author  of  "Rise  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment," "Spiritual  Heroes,"  also  numerous  magazine  articles, 
was  married  in  1900  to  Ina  J.  Bullis  of  New  York,  and  has 
one  child,  David  Saville,  Jr..  born  September  6,  1902  ;  Helen  E., 
born  August  21,  1874,  graduated  at  Abbot  Academy  in  1895, 
and  is  now  Assistant  Librarian  at  the  Cary  Library,  Lexington, 
Mass. ;  Annie  L.,  born  June  28,  1877,  graduated  at  Radcliffe 
in  1900;  Clifford  L.  was  born  December  11,  1886.  Mrs.  Muzzy 
has  been  active  in  literary  clubs  and  church  charitable  asso- 
ciations, and  has  written  several  papers  on  literary  and 
historical  subjects  for  the  Monday  Club  of  Lexington  and  the 
Historical  Society. 

Address:  Mrs.  David  W.  Muzzy,  Lexington,  Mass. 


Rebecca  Aborn  Sheldon,  daughter  of  Captain  Pardon 
and  Rebecca  (Aborn)  Sheldon,  was  born  in  Pawtuxet,  R.  I., 
March    28,    1838.      Pardon    Sheldon    was    descended    from    a 

brother  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, Gilbert  Sheldon,  who  came  to 
America  in  1663.  Rebecca  Aborn's 
mother,  Dorcas  Tourtellott,  was  a 
descendant  of  Gabriel  Bernon,  a 
Huguenot  of  wealth  and  position, 
who  fled  from  La  Rochelle.  France, 
after  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict  of 
Nantes.  1685.  His  daughter  Marie 
married  Abraham  Tourtellott. 

Rebecca    Aborn    Sheldon    was    at 

the  Oread  in  1853,  having  previously 

been  a  pupil  at  a  seminary  for  young 

ladies  in  Warren,  R.  T. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  in  Rhode  Island  and  in 

Springfield,    Mass.      She    was    married    January    11,    1881,    in 

Providence,  R.    I.,  to  Rev.  William   T.   Whitmarsh,  a  clergy- 


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man  of  the  Episcopal   Church,   and  until  his  health    failed,   a 
Canon  of  Trinity  Cathedral  at  Omaha,  Xeb. 

Address:  Airs.  William  T.  Whitmarsh.  1546  Georgia  Ave., 
Omaha,  Neb. 

Mary  Anna  Smith,  only  daughter  of  Thomas  Hodgkins 
and  Mary  Anna  (Parish)  Smith,  was  born  at  Hampton,  Conn., 
September  8,  1836.  She  was  at  the 
Oread  in  1854  and  1855. 

She  was  married  from  her  father's 
home  in  Colchester,  Conn.,  Decem- 
ber 17.  1857,  to  William  E.  Baker. 
a  lineal  descendant  of  John  and  Pris- 
cilla  Alden  of  Plymouth  Colony. 
They  have  two  children :  Gertrude 
Eleanor,  born  January  28,  i860,  and 
George  William,  born  April  13,  1868. 
Both  were  educated  in  Hartford 
and  Boston.  Mrs.  Baker  has  spent 
most  of  her  married  life  in  Hart- 
ford, where  Mr.  Baker  has  been  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness.    She  has  been  active  in  local  charities. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  E.  Baker,  50  Highland  St.,  Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

Mary  Celinda  Smith,  daughter  of  Sydney  Barlow  Smith 
of  Pawtuxet,  R.  I.,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Celinda  Gibbs,  of 
Coventry,  R.  I.,  was  born  in  Pawtuxet,  February  12,  1839. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1853,  and  remained  three  years.  Soon 
after  leaving  the  Oread  she  commenced  teaching  in  the  public 
schools  of  Providence,  and  has  continued  her  work  in  that  city 
to  the  present  time.  She  has  assisted  also  in  the  charitable 
work  conducted  by  the  church  to  which  she  belongs. 

Address :    42  A,  Fifield  Ave.,  Providence,  R.   I. 

Sarah  M.  Smith,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1856.  lives 
now  at  18  Walnut  St..  Worcester. 

Laura  C.  Spelman  was  born  in  Wadsworth,  O.,  September 
9,  1839.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Harvey  B.  Spelman,  who 
was  born  in  Ohio  in  181 1,  and  his  wife,  Lucy  Henry,  who  was 


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LAURA    AND   LUCY    SPELMAX. 


born  in  Blandford,  Mass.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  April, 
1858,  and  remained  one  year.  The  next  four  years  she  taught 
as  assistant  in  the  Grammar  Department  of  the  Cleveland,  O., 
public  schools. 

On   September  8,    1864,   at   Cleveland,   she   was   married   to 

John  D.  Rockefeller.  To 
them  have  been  born  four 
daughters  and  one  son  : 
Bessie,  born  in  1866;  Alice, 
born  in  1869,  died  in  1870; 
Alta,  born  in  1871  ;  Edith 
in  1872;  John  D.  in  1874. 
The  son  is  a  graduate  of 
Brown  University  in  the 
class  of  1897.  The  four 
children  now  living  are 
married,  and   Mrs.  Rockefeller  has   four  grandchildren. 

Mr.  Rockefeller  is  so  well  known  that  no  account  of  his 
work  is  necessary.  His  gifts  for  charitable  and  educational 
purposes  have  been  very  extensive.  He  founded  and  has 
given  over  $10,000,000  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  and  contributed 
generously  to  Spelman  Institute, 
founded  by  Miss  Sophia  Packard, 
an  Oread  Principal.  Spelman  In- 
stitute was  named  in  honor  of  Mr. 
Harvey  B.  Spelman,  the  father  of 
Mrs.  Rockefeller.  Mr.  Rocke- 
feller lias  also  made  large  dona- 
tions to  Vassar  and  Barnard  Col- 
leges, and  to  the  American  Baptist 
Missionary  Union  and  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society. 

Mrs.  Rockefeller  is  keenly  inter- 
ested in  the  Temperance  cause,  the  Sabbath  Alliance,  the  Stu- 
dents Club,  the  Retreat  and  other  philanthropic  work,  and  has 
written   for  Missionary  and  Sunday  School  societies. 

Address:    Mrs.  John   I).   Rockefeller,  4  West  54th  St.,  New 
York  City. 


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1  2  7 


Lucy  M.  Spelman,  daughter  of  Harvey  B.  Spelma 
his  wife,  Lucy  Henry,  was  born 
March  4.  [838,  in  Westfield,  I  >. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  the 
spring  of  [858,  remaining  one 
year. 

Her  life  has  been  devoted  to 
good  works.  For  many  years  she 
was  engaged  in  teaching.  She  has 
been  prominent  in  the  benevolent 
enterprises  of  the  church  and  in 
local  charities,  and  has  done  much 
to  promote  the  cause  of  temperance. 

Address:  4  West  54th  St..  New 
York  City. 


1    and 


Mary  M.  Sperry  came  to  the  Oread  from  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  about  1854.  She  was  married  December  20,  1864,  to 
Ransom  Holley  of  Wolcottville  (now  Torrington),  Conn.,  and 
died  May  26,  1874.  after  nine  years  of  invalidism.  She  left 
no  children. 


Ruth  W.  Stetson  was  born  in  Hanover,  Mass.,  January 
28,  1838.  Her  father  was  Martin  W.  Stetson,  and  her  mother 
Ruth  B.  Stockbridge.  She  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Governor 
Bradford,  Elder  Brewster  and  Richard  Warren,  three  of  the 
Mayflower  pilgrims,  and  has  several  ancestors  who  fought  in 
the  War  of  the  Revolution.  She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in 
[853  and   1854. 

On  June  20,  i860,  she  was  married  to  Daniel  E.  Damon  of 
Plymouth,  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  Register  of  Probate  for 
Plymouth  County  for  twenty-five  years.  A  son,  Edwin  Stet- 
son,  born  in  Plymouth.  October  12,  1862,  was  educated  at 
\mherst  College:  a  daughter.  Ruth  Stockbridge.  horn  May 
[3,  [866,  was  educated  at  Wellesley  College,  from  which  she 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  in  the 
class  of    [89  1. 

Address:  Mrs.  Daniel  E.  Damon,  30  Russell  St.,  Plymouth, 
Mass. 


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Sarah  Wood  Taft  attended  the  Oread  in  1857.  She  was 
born  in  Uxbridge,  Mass.,  January  5,  1838,  and  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Moses  Taft,  a  manufacturer  of  woolen  goods,  and  Sylvia 
(Wheelock)  Taft,  both  natives  of  Uxbridge.  Her  mother  died 
in  1855  and  her  father  in  1893. 

She  was  married  to  Lewis  Henry  Murdock  at  her  father's 
home,  June  17,  1862.  They  have  two  sons,  Herbert  Taft 
Murdock,  born  in  Uxbridge,  September  11,  1865,  and  Edgar 
Wheelock  Murdock,  also  born  in  Uxbridge,  February  1,  1869. 
They  are  both  manufacturers  of  woolen  goods.  Herbert  lives 
in  Proctorsville,  Vt.,  and  has  two  daughters ;  Edgar  lives  at 
home,  but  has  his  business  in  Caryville. 

Address :    Mrs.  Lewis  H.  Murdock,  Uxbridge,  Mass. 

Lucy  H.  Taylor  came  to  the  Oread  about  1856  from  Chelsea, 
Mass. 

Address:    Mrs.  John  Warner,  50  Franklin  Ave.,  Chelsea. 

Esther  Ann  Thayer,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  the  early 
fifties,  was  the  daughter  of  Rufus  Thayer  of  Randolph,  Mass., 
and  his  wife,  Margery  Ann  White  of  Braintree,  a  daughter 
of  Calvin  White  and  Margery  Hayward.  Lieutenant  Micah 
White  of  the  Revolutionary  Army  was  an  ancestor.  She  was 
born  in  Randolph,  Mass.,  December  16,  1836. 

On  December  25,  i860,  she  was  married  in  Randolph  to 
George  Bradford  Belcher,  a  manufacturer.  She  has  two 
children:  Annie  Thayer,  born  September  20,  1861,  and  Marion, 
born  December  22,  1864.  Annie  is  a  graduate  of  Thayer 
Academy,  Braintree,  Mass.  Marion  graduated  from  the  Stet- 
son High  School  in  Randolph  and  afterward  attended  Thayer 
Academy,  Miss  Putnam's  private  school  in  Boston,  and  Lasell 
Seminary,  Auburndale,  Mass.  She  was  married  November  18, 
T891.  t<>  Harry  Madison  Cutts  of  Washington,  D.  C,  whose 
ancestors  were  from  Virginia,  and  whose  great-aunt  was  Dolly 
Madison,  for  whom  their  daughter,  Dorothy  Madison,  born 
December  27,  1892,  was  named.  Their  son,  George  Belcher 
Cutts,  was  born  April  13,  [895.  Mrs.  Cutis  lives  in  Brookline, 
wbere  Dr.   Cutts  is  a  practicing  physician. 

Mrs.  Belcher  died  November  17,  1885,  at  Randolph,  Mass. 


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Ida  M.  Thayer,  second  daughter  of  Hon.  Eli  Thayer,  founder 
1 1 E  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute,  was 
horn  in  the  Xorth  Tower  of  Oread 
Castle.  She  entered  the  Primary 
Department  of  the  Institute  in  1856, 
and  was  a  pupil  at  the  school  until 
[867,  after  which  time  she  was  a 
student  in  the  Art  Department  until 
1870. 

In  1881  she  went  abroad,  and  con- 
tinued the  study  of  Art,  working  in 
Florence  under  Mons.  H.  Duchene 
De  Yere,  and  in  Paris  with  Krug. 
Returning     in     1883,     she     had     a 

studio    for   a    while   at   the   Oread,    and    later   had    studios    in 

Pawtucket   and   Providence.   R.   I., 
Her    mother    was    Caroline    M. 

Capron  of  Blackstone,  Mass.,  whose 

maternal  grandmother  was  a  Put- 
nam, a  member  of  the  Gen.  Israel 

Putnam  family.     Benjamin  Thayer, 

great-grandfather  of   Ida   Thayer, 

married  Ruth  Alden,  a  great-great- 
granddaughter   of   John   Alden   of 

the  Plymouth  Colony,  and  of  the 

Mayflower.      Ferdinando    Thayer, 

another  ancestor,   was   one  of  the 

earliest  colonists  of  Mendon.  Mass., 

coming  to  America  in  1662. 

Address:    to    Hawthorne    St..    Worcester. 


and  in   Worcester. 


Julia  F.  Thayer,  daughter  of  Cushman  and  Miranda  (Pond) 
Thayer,  was  born  in  Millville,  Mass.,  November  12,  1840.  She 
was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1852,  and  later  a  teacher  in  the 
preparatory   department.      She   died   in   Worcester,   December 

T.     [862. 


Mary  D.  Thayer,  daughter  of  Cushman  and  Miranda  (Pond) 
Thayer,  was  born  in  Mendon,  Mass..  September  24,  1835.  She 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Alden  on  her   father's  side, 


130  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

and  both  her  mother's  grandfathers  were  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  She  was  a  student  at  the  Oread  in  1852.  She  died  at 
Port  Monmouth,  N.  J.,  on  January  17,  1867. 

Mary  Ann  Tourtellot,  daughter  of  Paris  Tourtellot,  whose 
family  was  of  French  Huguenot  descent,  and  of  Mary  Ann 
Williams,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  April  22,  1831. 
She  was  at  the  Oread  in  1853. 

On  October  17,  1855,  she  was  married  in  Sutton  to  William 
E.  Pease,  merchant,  postmaster  and  town  official.  They  have 
four  daughters :  Mary  Emily,  Annie,  Elizabeth  Sanf ord,  and 
Kate  Francis ;  and  one  son,  Emory  Sanf  ord.  Mary,  Annie, 
and  Kate  were  pupils  at  Mount  Holyoke  Seminary.  Mary  is 
a  graduate.  She  is  married  to  Rev.  W.  S.  Hawkes.  Kate  is 
married  to  Rev.  A.  H.  Proffitt. 

Address :    Mrs.  W.  E.  Pease,  Worcester. 

Harriet  F.  Waite,  daughter  of  David  and  Clarissa  (Lakin) 
Waite,  was  born  in  Paxton,  Mass.,  December  8,  1831,  and 
attended  the  Oread  in  the  early  part  of  Miss  Dodge's  admin- 
istration. She  was  married  in  Paxton  to  Rev.  Charles  M. 
Temple  of  Rutland,  Mass.,  on  September  4,  1856,  and  died  in 
Sturgis,  Mich.,  February  27,  1872,  leaving  three  children: 
Charles  Edward,  born  July  13,  1858,  graduated  from  Michigan 
University,  and  is  a  lawyer ;  Francis  Wayland,  born  May  8, 
i860,  also  graduated  at  Michigan  University  and  is  a  dentist; 
Rosabelle  Clara,  born  December  27,  1865,  studied  at  North- 
field  Seminary,  and  at  Wellesley  College,  and  is  a  musician. 
All  were  born  in  White  Pigeon,  Mich.,  and  the  two  eldest  are 
married. 

Juliet  Augusta  Warner,  daughter  of  Earl  and  Ffarriet 
(Gilbert)  Warner,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  March  20, 
1834.  She  entered  the  Oread  September  1,  1850,  afterwards 
teaching  classes  in  English,  and  remaining  there  until  the 
spring  of  1853,  when  she  went  to  the  Salisbury  Mansion  School 
to  teach  with  Rev.  Mr.  Bent.  She  left  Worcester  in  Septem- 
ber, 1853,  and  taught  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  for  one  term.  She 
was  married  in  January,  1854,  to  Edmund  Perkins,  a  lawyer  of 
Norwich.     Mr.  Perkins  died  in  August,  1865,  and  his  wife  was 


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left  with  her  two  children  to  make  a  place  for  herself  and  for 
them  in  the  world. 

From  February  until  October,  1868,  Mrs.  Perkins  taught  in 
a  grammar  school  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  resigning  then  to  teach 
in  the  grammar  department  of  Packer  Institute,  Brooklyn, 
where  she  was  shortly  after  chosen 
Instructor  in  Elocution.  She  was 
a  pupil  of  the  elder  Prof.  William 
Russell,  who  considered  her  voice 
to  be  of  remarkable  power  and 
compass;  also  of  Mrs.  George 
Vandenhoff,  author  and  actress, 
whose  praise  of  her  was  unquali- 
fied. She  gave  readings  in  Brook- 
lyn, Hartford,  and  other  places  in 
Connecticut,  as  well  as  at  Packer 
Institute.  She  also  wrote  several 
plays,  songs  and  poems,  "Bridget's 
Story,"     written     in     1874,     being 

prominent  among  these.  This  work  was  a  repetition,  on  a 
larger  scale,  of  what  she  did  at  the  Oread  in  her  younger  days, 
when  she  contributed  to  the  J  'oicc,  an  Oread  publication,  and 
wrote  a  romance  for  the  school. 

Mrs.  Perkins  died  in  Xew  York  City,  March  30,  1875,  and 
on  April  2  funeral  services  were  conducted  at  Packer  Institute, 
and  also  in  Norwich,  Conn.  Two  sons  survive  her,  Robert 
W.,  born  in  Norwich  in  1855,  and  now  engaged  in  banking 
there,  and  Donald  G.,  born  in  Norwich  in  1858,  and  now  a 
prominent  lawyer  in  that  city. 

Venah  Jane  Warren,  daughter  of  William  Warren,  of  old 
Colonial  descent,  and  Abigail  Lyman  (Banister)  Warren,  was 
born  in  Brighton.  Mass.,  March  12,  1838.  She  was  the  only 
sister  of  the  late  Hon.  William  Wirt  Warren,  for  man}'  years 
a  prominent  citizen  of  Brighton.  She  attended  the  Oread  in 
[855—56.  Miss  Warren  was  from  her  early  years  a  member 
of  the  First  Parish  Church,  Brighton,  and  a  leader  in  all  affairs 
connected  with  it.  She  was  Superintendent  of  its  Sunday 
School  for  ten  years.  As  chairman  of  the  Brighton  Branch 
of  the  Moral  Education  Association  she  gave  evidence  of  her 
breadth  of  thought  and  wide  range  of  sympathies. 


132  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

In  the  various  women's  clubs  and  guilds  of  her  native  town 
she  bore  an  active  part,  and  was  always  a  strong  influence 
for  the  highest  ideals  in  society.     She  died  May  18,  1889. 

Jane  E.  Webber,  who  attended  the  Oread  the  second  and 
third  term  of  the  year  1852-53,  is  a  sister  of  Mr.  George  N. 
Webber,  Oread  instructor  for  that  year  in  Rhetoric  and  Phil- 
osophy. She  was  born  in  Pomfret,  Conn.,  and  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Ariel  and  Lucina  (Holmes)  Webber.  She  was  married 
to  Henry  Phillips,  a  farmer,  of  Woodstock,  Conn.,  and  has  two 
children,  Jenny  and  Wendal.     Both  are  unmarried. 

Address :    Mrs.  Henry  Phillips,  Woodstock,  Conn. 

Elizabeth  N.  Weeks,  youngest  daughter  of  Captain  Hiram 
and  Margaret  Dunham  (Cottle)  Weeks,  was  born  in  Colches- 
ter, Conn.,  February  14,  1842,  and  attended  the  Oread  in  1854 
and  1855.  She  was  married  in  1866  to  Stephen  Irwin  of 
Southbridge,  Mass.  A  son,  Stephen,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1868, 
a  daughter,   Margaret,   in   1870,  and  a  son,   Charles,  in   1879. 

Mrs.  Irwin  and  her  youngest  son  both  died  in  1897.  Her 
husband  had  died  some  years  earlier  in  the  South,  where  he 
had  gone  in  search  of  health. 

Margaret    H.    Weeks,    eldest   daughter    of    Captain    Hiram 

and  Margaret  Dunham  (Cottle) 
Weeks,  was  born  at  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, Mass.,  April  10,  1835.  Her 
girlhood  was  spent  in  Colchester, 
where  she  was  a  pupil  at  the  Acad- 
emy for  several  years.  She  en- 
tered the  Oread  in   1852. 

She  was  married  in  Maiden, 
Mass.,  October  4,  1864,  to  Joseph 
Lucian  Shipley,  Editor  and  Proprie- 
tor of  the  Springfield  Union,  a  daily 
evening  paper  of  high  character. 
Mr.  Shipley  was  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  Legislature  in  1893,  and  again  in  1894.  He  died 
in  1894,  leaving  no  children. 

Address:  Mrs.  Margaret  W.  Shipley,  89  High  St.,  Spring- 
field,  Mass. 


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Harriet  Westbrook,  daughter  of  John  Beekman  and  Harriet 
(Briggs)  Westbrook,  was  born  in  Bethel,  Me.,  February  12, 
1850.  Her  ancestry  was  English,  Dutch,  and  Huguenot.  She 
attended  the  Oread  from  1858-1861  ;  was  in  school  till  1869, 
and  then  taught  one  year.      She   was  married  December  27, 

1870,  to  Albert  E.  Dunning  in  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  and  since  that 
time  has  lived  in  Boston  or  its  immediate  neighborhood.  Her 
husband  has  been  pastor  of  a  church  in  Roxbury,  Secretary 
of  the  Congregational  Sunday  School  Society,  and  Editor  of 
the  Congregationalist.  He  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1867,  has  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  for 
nearly  twenty  years  has  been  a 
member  of  the  International  Sunday 
School  Lesson  Committee.  Their 
children  were  all  born  in  Boston 
(Roxbury  District).  Harry  West- 
brook Dunning,  born   December  7, 

1 87 1,  graduated  with  honors  from 
Yale  College  in  1894,  and  received 
from  there  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Philosophy  in  1897.  He  taught 
four  years  in  Yale,  Department  of 
Biblical  Literature.  He  has  traveled 
largely.  Morton  Dexter  Dunning, 
born  December  14.  1872,  was  graduated  from  Amherst  College 
in  1896,  and  from  Hartford  Theological  Seminary  in  1899.  He 
was  ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  Congregational  Church,  and 
was  settled  for  over  two  years  at  Forest  Grove,  Ore.  Since 
June,  1902,  he  has  been  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board  at 
the  Doshisha  in  Japan.  He  married  in  1899  Mary  Kingsbury 
Ward  of  Newton  Centre,  Mass.  Albert  Beach  Dunning,  born 
July  31,  1875,  has  taken  a  special  course  in  Harvard  College. 
Emily  Beekman  Dunning,  born  June  21,  1881,  graduated  from 
Brookline  High  School  in  1899.  She  is  a  graduate  of  Vassar 
College  with  a  record  almost  unequalled  for  scholarship — one 
that  has  never  been  surpassed  in  the  College. 

Mrs.  Dunning  has  been  active  in  church  work,  is  a  member  of 
the  Brookline  Tuesday  Club,  has  written  a  little  for  publication, 
and  has  made  some  club  and  church  addresses,  largely  the  obser- 
vations of  travel  in  the  Orient.     She  has  drawn,  painted  and 


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modeled  in  the  School  of  Design,  New  York  City,  and  the  Bos- 
ton Art  Museum. 

Address :  Mrs.  A.  E.  Dunning-,  Kilsyth  Road,  Brookline, 
Mass. 

Sarah  Maria  Westbrook,  daughter  of  John  Beekman  and 
Harriet  Brown  (Briggs)  Westbrook,  was  born  in  New  Glouces- 
ter, Me.,  July  31,  1847.     Among  her  ancestors  on  her  father's 


side  were  Jonathan  Westbrook,  an  officer  in  Cromwell's  army, 
who  fled  to  this  country  at  the  Restoration ;  Frederic  West- 
brook, a  member  of  the  Continental  Army  and  a  General  in 
the  War  of  1812;  Wilhelmus  Beekman,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  Holland  in  1647,  and  held  the  position  of  Orphan 
Master  to  the  colony  of  New  Amsterdam  under  Gov.  Stuyve- 
sant;  and  Tjesck  Beekman,  a  member  of  the  Continental  Army 
and  an  original  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  Her 
mother's  ancestry  was  English. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1858,  and  remained 
until  June,  1861.  She  then  attended  Codman  Hill  School,  Dor- 
chester, Mass.  She  has  lived  in  New  York  State,  but  now 
resides  in  Massachusetts. 

Address:    Clinton   and  Cotswold  Roads,  Brookline,   Mass. 


Almira    Elizabeth    Westcott    was   born    in    East    Killingly, 
Conn.,  March  20,   1834,  and  was  the  daughter  of   Henry  and 


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Almira  (Browning)  Westcott.  Her  mother  was  a  native  of 
Rutland,  Mass. 

Miss  Westcott  entered  the  Oread  when  only  one  tower  was 
built,  and  was  a  pupil  there  for  the  larger  part  of  two  years, 
during  which  time  the  other  tower  and  connecting  hall  were 
brought  to  completion. 

After  leaving  school  she  remained  at  home,  caring  for  her 
father  and  mother,  and  as  housekeeper  for  her  brother,  Henry 
D.  Westcott.  She  has  been  actively  interested  in  the  work 
of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Danielson,  Conn.,  her  home  for  the 
past  thirty  years. 

Her  father  and  mother  died  several  years  ago,  and  her 
brother  in  October,   1903. 

Address:    Danielson,  Conn. 

Adelaide  Wheeler,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Alice  (Pal- 
mer) Wheeler,  was  born  on  September  9,  1840,  at  Point  Shir- 
ley, near  Boston,  Mass.  Her  great-great-grandfather.  General 
Joseph  Palmer,  was  at  one  time  President  of  the  Colonial  Con- 
gress ;  he  was  at  the  battles  of  Lexington  and  Bunker  Hill  and 
in  1775  was  appointed  to  serve  on  thirty-five  committees;  his 
son,  John  Pease  Palmer,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  was  a 
participant  in  the  Boston  Tea  Party. 

Adelaide  Wheeler  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1854.  She 
was  married  on  January  7,  1858,  at  her  home  in  South  Boston, 
to  Edwin  A.  Simonds  of  Boston.  After  their  marriage  they 
moved  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  they  resided  for  many  years. 
They  had  three  children :  Mary  Adelaide,  born  in  South  Bos- 
ton, November  1,  1859;  Alice  Isabelle,  born  in  South  Boston, 
September  7,  1861  ;  Benjamin  Wheeler,  born  in  Erie,  Penn., 
May  13,  1869,  died  January  25,  1873. 

After  her  husband's  death,  Mrs.  Simonds  with  her  two 
daughters  removed  to  Brookline,  Mass.,  where  she  died  on 
July  5,  1894. 

Sarah  M.  Wheeler  was  born  in  Petersham,  Mass.,  December 
16,  1837.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Almira  (New- 
ton) Wheeler.  She  attended  the  Oread  in  1856.  After  this, 
her  health  being  frail,  she  lived  quietly  at  home  until  her  death 
on  February  21,   1877. 


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Clarissa  Jane  Wheelock,  daugh- 
ter of  Calvin  W.  and  Mary  A.  (Le- 
land)  Wheelock,  was  born  in  Hol- 
liston,  Mass.,  March  14,  1838.  In 
1852  her  family  removed  to  Men- 
don,  where  her  father  was  for 
many  years  a  prominent  boot  man- 
ufacturer. She  entered  the  Oread 
in  the  spring  of  1853.  On  Novem- 
ber 23,  1863,  she  was  married  to 
Charles  C.  P.  Hastings  of  Mendon, 
Mass.  She  died  in  that  town  June 
9,  1867. 


Sarah  Elizabeth  Wheelock  attended  the  Oread  from  the 
fall  of  1856  until  the  spring  of  1857. 

She  was  born  at  Uxbridge,  Mass.,  January  21,  1839,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Charles  A.  and  Nancy  (Seagrave) 
Wheelock.  One  of  her  ancestors,  Ralph  Wheelock,  came  to 
this  country  from  England  in  1637,  and  settled  in  Dedham, 
Mass.  In  1644  he  was  appointed  teacher  of  the  first  free 
school  supported  by  town  tax  in  Massachusetts. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  held  the  position  of  organist 
in  the  Unitarian  Church  at  Uxbridge. 

She  was  married  June  18,  1861,  at  Uxbridge  to  Eben  B. 
Hayward,  a  merchant,  and  died  two  years  later,  on  Septem- 
ber 15,  1863. 

Adelphia  W.  White,  called  at  the  Oread  "Delia,"  was  born 
March  10,  1840,  and  was  the  only  daughter  of  Colonel  Josiah 
and  Adelphia  (Wilder)  White  of  Petersham,  Mass.  Colonel 
White  was  prominent  in  the  town,  and  Superintendent  of  the 
Unitarian  Sunday  School  for  many  years. 

Miss  White  attended  the  Oread  about  1856.  She  died  at 
her  home  in  Petersham,  November  12,  1861. 


Eliza  Fox  White  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1854-56,  and 
but   for   illness   would  have   remained   to   graduate.     She   was 


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the  daughter  of  James  and   Eliza    (Healey)    White,   and  was 
born  in  Worcester,   March   30.    1835.      On   August   18,    1857, 

she  was  married  to  Benjamin 
Dwight  Allen,  an  organist,  and  at 
that  time  teacher  of  music  at  the 
Oread.  Mr.  Allen  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  American  Guild  of 
Organists.  They  had  a  family  of 
five  children.  Of  these  only  two 
are  now  living,  Mabel,  who  is 
^^tfL^  %%•-■>         married  to  Rev.  William  W.  Sleeper 

w      mL  ,J|    W  Wellesley,    and    Charlotte    Jay, 

iH      A      JhS    )&?  now    Mrs.   Charles    II.    Farnsworth. 

^O  ^^  wr  A    daughter,    Eliza    Salisbury,    and 

^^*"^^^  two    sons,    James    White   and    Ben- 

jamin Lincoln  Wayland,  are  the  children  not  living. 
Mrs.  Allen  died  August  18,  1894. 


Eliza  Jane  Whittemore  was  born  in  Worcester,  July  30, 
1836,  the  daughter  of  Charles  Whittemore  and  Jane  Barnes 
Allen,  his  wife.  The  Whittemores  came  from  England,  and 
were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Leicester,  Mass.  They 
trace  an  unbroken  family  line  to  the  time  of  the  Norman  inva- 
sion under  William  the  Conqueror. 

The  first  ancestor  of  Jane  Barnes 
Allen  in  this  country,  her  grand- 
father, John  Allen,  came  to  Ply- 
mouth, Mass.,  where  he  married  a 
wife  of  French  descent,  by  whom 
he  had  two  sons.  Leaving  home 
on  a  foreign  voyage,  he  was  so 
long  gone  he  was  given  up  as  lost, 
and  duly  mourned  by  his  family. 
After  a  while  his  wife,  believing 
herself  a  widow,  was  induced  to 
marry  again — and  then,  like  Enoch 
Arden,  John  Allen  returned  to  find 
his  place  filled  by  another,  a  wealthy  shipowner  of  Plymouth. 
The  presents  he  had  brought  for  wife  and  children  he  sent 
to  them  from  Boston,  then  took  ship  again,  and  sailed  away, 


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and  never  more  was  seen  in  his  own  land.  When  his  wife 
that  was,  then  Mrs.  Stephens,  knew  that  he  was  alive  and 
had  returned  and  gone  again,  she  shut  herself  in  her  chamber 

and   would   see   no   one   for   many 
weeks. 

Eliza  J.  Whittemore  entered  the 
Oread  in  1852.  On  October  11, 
1856,  she  was  married  to  Horace 
Lasselle,  a  physician,  who  died 
January  10,  1863.  A  son,  Charles, 
was  born  of  this  marriage,  June 
13,  1858.  He  is  a  druggist.  On 
December  27,  1865,  Mrs.  Lasselle 
became  Mrs.  John  L.  Utley.  Mr. 
Utley  was  a  lawyer.  He  died 
March  21,  1893.  A  daughter, 
Grace,  born  to  Mrs.  Utley,  March 
2^,  1869,  died  October  20,  1875. 

Address :     Mrs.    Eliza   W.   Utley,   yj   Alvarado   Ave.,   Lake 
Mew,  Worcester. 


Elizabeth  Willard,  who  came  to  the  Oread  from  Peters- 
ham about  1854,  married  Rev.  William  Barry,  a  Unitarian  min- 
ister, settled  successively  in  Framingham,  Lowell  and  Chicago. 
Mrs.  Barry  spent  the  latter  part  of  her  life  with  her  daughter 
in  Chicago.     She  died  eight  or  ten  years  ago. 

Mary  Gates  Willard  came  to  the  Oread  from  Still  River, 
Mass.,  in  the  very  early  fifties.  She  was  born  in  Still  River, 
May  9,  1835,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Luther  and  Mary 
(Davis)   Willard. 

Miss  Willard  was  an  invalid  all  her  life,  being  confined  to 
her  bed  for  over  thirty  years.  During  the  last  part  of  her  life 
her  health  was  somewhat  improved  and  she  was  able  to  be 
about  the  house  and  sometimes  take  short  drives.  She  died 
February  19,  1901,  in  Still  River,  in  the  same  house  in  which 
she  was  born  and  had  alwavs  lived. 


Ellen  Louise  Williams  was  born  in  llolden,  Mass.,  in  1837, 
and  was  the  only  child  of  Air.  and  Mrs.  Albert  C.  Williams,  both 


Pupils  from   1849-1859  139 

of  whom  were  natives  of  Sutton.  Her  father  was  in  early 
life  a  machinist,  then  a  manufacturer  of  cotton  cloth.  After- 
wards he  became  interested  in  coal  oil  (when  oil  was  first 
extracted  from  coal),  and  later,  when  oil-wells  were  found, 
spent  much  of  his  time  in  the  oil-fields  of  Ohio.  Her  mother 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  the  McClellans  of  Sutton,  Mass. 

Miss  Williams  attended  the  Oread  from  1853  to  1855.  She 
was  married  in  Ohio  in  i860  to  William  H.  Fairbanks  of 
Holden,  whose  grandfather,  Jonathan,  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  Jonathan  Fairbanks  of  Dedham,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Fairbanks  has  lived  all  her  life  on  the  old  Fairbanks 
homestead  in  Holden,  where  her  four  children  were  born. 
Allele  Louise,  born  in  1861,  graduated  from  the  Worcester 
High  School  and  afterwards  attended  Miss  Ava  Williams' 
school  in  Worcester.  She  married  Charles  A.  Vaughan  of 
W<  ircester  in  1894,  and  has  two  children,  George  Fairbanks  and 
Margaret.  Mrs.  Fairbanks'  second  daughter,  Jennie  M.,  born 
in  1865,  graduated  from  the  Worcester  High  School  and  the 
Worcester  State  Normal  School.  Edward  E.,  born  in  1867, 
was  educated  in  Holden,  and  is  now  a  dealer  in  oils  in  Worces- 
ter.    W.  Grout,  who  was  born  in  1874,  died  in  1898. 

Mr.  Fairbanks  was  an  invalid  for  many  years  and  died  in 
1890. 

Address :    Mrs.  Ellen  W.  Fairbanks.  Holden,  Mass. 


Louise  Holman  Wood  was  born  in  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  July 
14,  1834.  Her  father,  Nathaniel  Wood,  of  Holden,  Mass.,  was 
at  that  time  a  lawyer  in  Fitchburg.  He  had  married  Louisa 
Holman  of  Bolton,  whose  father  was  in  active  service  during 
the  War  of  the  Revolution.  Louise,  their  only  child,  was  at 
the  Oread  in  its  early  years,  leaving  in  1852.  On  May  2,  1861, 
she  was  married  in  Fitchburg  to  James  R.  Wellman.  a  physi- 
cian, who  died  some  years  ago. 

Mrs.  Wellman  has  been  especially  interested  in  the  Baldwins- 
ville  Hospital  Cottages  for  Children,  the  Shut-in  Society 
(the  first  organization  of  that  name  and  purpose),  the  local 
charities  of  Fitchburg,  and  other  benevolent  associations. 

Address:  Mrs.  Louise  H.  Wellman,  33  Adams  St..  Fitch- 
burg, Mass. 


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Central  Falls,  R.  I. 


Sarah  Frances  Wood  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Phila 
Thayer    (Freeman)    Wood,   and   was  born   June   25,    1841,   in 
A  town  in  Massachusetts,  Woodville,  bears 
her  father's  name.     Her  mother  was 
a  cousin  of  Eli  Thayer,  the  founder 
of   the   Oread.       She   came   to  the 
Oread  in  1851,  when  only  ten  years 
of  age,  under  the  especial  care  of 
Miss  Rebecca  Capron,  then  teacher 
of    Music    there,    and    remained    in 
that  institution  for  several  years. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  con- 
tinued her  studies,  graduating  from 
the  Young  Ladies  High  School  in 
Providence,    R.    I.,    and    remained 
afterwards  at  home  until  her  mar- 
riage, August  12,  1868,  to  Rev.  Joseph  Ward,  a  graduate  of 
Phillips  Academy  (Andover),  Brown  University,  and  Andover 
Theological  Seminary.     The  same  year  Mr.  Ward  was  sent  out 
by  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  as  the  first 
missionary  to  Dakota,  then  an  undeveloped  territory,  contain- 
ing a  comparatively  small  number  of  widely  scattered  pioneer 
settlers.     For  several  years  his  parish  was  the  whole  of  this 
territory.      As    Dakota    rapidly    de-        _______ 

veloped  and  increased  in  popu- 
lation, Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ward  found 
thrust  upon  them,  not  only  the 
vast  labor  of  the  establishment 
and  development  of  Congregational 
churches  in  the  state  in  number 
proportionate  to  its  rapid  growth, 
but  also  the  leadership  in  educa- 
tional matters.  Mr.  Ward  was 
the  founder  and  first  President  of 
Yankton  College,  and  helped  to 
establish  the  public  school  system 
of  the  state.      He  was  also  deeply 

interested  in  Dakota's  political  life,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Constitutional  Convention.  Their  splendid  work  in  Dakota 
has  made  the  names  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Ward  among  the 


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most  prominent  in  American  Missionary  history.  In  the  course 
of  his  ministry  Mr.  Ward  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D. 

Mrs.  Ward  has  five  children,  all  born  in  Yankton :  Ethel 
Tufts,  born  July  15,  1873,  was  married  at  Yankton,  December 
25,  1893,  to  the  second  son  of  Rev.  W.  B.  D.  Gray,  at  present 
Joint  Superintendent  of  the  State  of  Wyoming  for  the  Sunday 
School  and  Publishing  Society,  and  the  Congregational  Home 
Missionary  Society;  Donald  Butler,  born  October  1,  1876,  is 
a  graduate  of  the  Boston  University  Law  School ;  Freeman, 
born  August  9,  1879,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  the  class  of 
1903,  and  is  now  an  Assistant  in  Geology  at  Yale ;  Sheldon, 
born  March  27,  1882,  was  a  student  at  Yale  in  the  class  of  1906 
for  one  year,  and  is  now  in  business  at  Yankton ;  Margaret  H., 
born  July   14,   1885,  is  a  student  at  Xorthfield  Seminary. 

Mr.  Ward  died  December  11,  1889.  Since  his  death  Mrs. 
Ward  has  been  pastor  of  a  small  Home  Missionary  Church,  has 
assisted  in  raising  funds  for  Yankton  College,  and  has  been 
Matron  at  Hillside  Cottage,  Northfield  Seminary,  East  North- 
field,  Mass.     She  has  written   for  missionary  magazines. 

Address:  Mrs.  Joseph  Ward.  912  Mulberry  St.,  Yankton, 
So.  Dak. 

Emeline  A.  Woodbury  was  born  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  October 
8,  1837,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Leonard  and  Emeline  (Pratt) 
Woodbury.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1849.  Since  leaving 
school,  in  185 1,  she  has  lived  most  of  the  time  in  Anoka,  Minn., 
having  moved  there  in  1854.  She  lived  for  a  short  time  in 
Ottumwa,  Iowa.  In  Anoka,  January  6,  1855,  she  was  married 
to  Daniel  I.  King,  a  carpenter.  Their  only  child,  Katherine 
A.  King,  is  a  teacher  in  the  Duluth  Public  Schools. 

Address :    Mrs.  Daniel  I.  King,  Anoka,  Minn. 

Emily  Woodcock  was  born  in  Leicester,  Mass.,  February 
2,  1832,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Josephus  and  Catherine  S. 
(Davis)  Woodcock.  She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1854. 
Most  of  her  life  was  passed  in  her  native  town,  where  she 
took  part  in  the  charitable  work  conducted  by  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church.  She  was  interested  in  Art.  and  herself 
an  artist  of  good  ability.  She  died  in  Worcester,  March 
13,  1899. 


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Maria  Woodcock,  cousin  of  Emily,  was  the  daughter  of 
Lucius  Woodcock  of  Leicester,  Mass.,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  C. 
White,  of  Ware,  Mass. 

She  was  born  in  Leicester,  June  6,  1837,  and  attended  the 
Oread  in  1854.     She  died  in  Leicester,  December  1,  1859. 

Elizabeth  Workman,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Workman,  at  that 
time  a  well-known  physician  of  Worcester,  was  a  student  at 
the  Oread  in  1854.  She  subsequently  married  a  physician,  Dr. 
McPherson.     They  resided  for  a  time  in  New  Jersey. 

Mrs.  McPherson  was  for  many  years  a  widow,  and  on 
account  of  her  ill  health  made  her  home  in  Pasadena,  Cal., 
where,  early  in  1903,  she  died,  leaving  no  children. 

Sarah  M.  Works  came  to  the  Oread  from  Southboro,  Mass., 
in  1856,  was  married  to  Charles  P.  Mixer  of  South  Framing- 
ham,  Mass.,  and  died  in  1897. 


DR.  PATTISON'S  ADMINISTRATION 
18J9  TO  1864 


THE  next  Principal  of  the  school  was  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  E. 
Pattison,  who  succeeded  Miss  Dodge  in  1859.  He 
was  an  experienced  teacher  and  administrator,  having  been 
Professor  of  Mathematics  at,  and  for  six  years  President  of, 
Waterville  College,  now  Colby  University.  He  had  also  held 
responsible  positions  in  the  Western  Baptist  and  Newton  Theo- 
logical Seminaries,  and  was  for  three  years  President  of  the 
former. 

Dr.  Pattison  said,  in  his  prospectus  of  the  school,  that  for  the 
formation  of  character  he  "relied  largely  on  the  influences  of 
a  pleasant  home."  That  he  succeeded  wonderfully  well  in 
carrying  out  this  attractive  ideal  for  his  school  is  borne  witness 
to  by  his  pupils,  none  of  whom  fails  to  hold  the  dear  old  Doctor 
in  loving  memory.  One  of  them  says,  "Dr.  Pattison  had  a 
remarkable  way  of  making  the  girls  feel  that  the  school  was 
as  like  as  possible  to  one  large  and  happy  family.  The  pupils 
never  felt  the  restraint  of  irksome  rules,  and  he  used  to  win  the 
immediate  allegiance  of  all  new-comers  into  his  school  by  the 
kindly  way  in  which  he  told  them  that  he  should  hold  them 
strictly  to  only  one  rule,  and  that  was,  'Don't  be  homesick.' 
But  though  in  many  ways  Dr.  Pattison  was  like  an  indulgent 
father  to  us,  he  did  not  spoil  us,  and  when  we  went  out  of 
bounds  one  look  out  of  his  keen  eagle  eye,  and  his,  'Young 
ladies,  young  ladies,  I  cannot  allow  it,'  was  enough  to  bring 
us  at  once  to  ourselves. 

"The  Oread  in  those  days  was  literally  as  well  as  in  its 
spirit  a  home  school,  for  with  very  few  exceptions  our  teachers 
were  Dr.  Pattison's  sons  and  daughters,  and  Mrs.  Pattison  was 
our  Matron.  Miss  Fannie  and  Miss  Ettie  were  so  near  our 
own  age  that  they  seemed  like  friends  rather  than  superiors. 
They  were  bright,  attractive  and  companionable  girls,  but  very 
unlike.     Miss  Fannie  was  of  a  mild,  gentle,  and  somewhat  retir- 


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ing  disposition,  while  Miss  Ettie  was  witty,  lively  and  quick  at 
repartee.  Miss  Fannie  taught  painting,  music  and  a  little 
Latin,  Miss  Ettie,  English.  Dr.  Pattison  and  Mr.  Everett  Patti- 
son  taught  the  Academic  branches,  and  William  Pattison,  the 
youngest  son  of  the  family,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  dur- 
ing the  first  two  or  three  years,  later  gave  lessons  in  painting 
there.  Well  known  and  beloved  by  the  girls,  though  she  did 
not  have  an  active  part  in  the  school  duties,  was  Mrs.  Binney, 
Dr.  Pattison's  sister,  formerly  a  missionary  to  the  Karens  in 
Burmah,  but  at  that  time  living  quietly  in  Dr.  Pattison's  family 
with  her  son  Henry.  The  latter  was  of  about  the  same  age 
as  William  Pattison  and,  like  him,  was  being  educated  under 
the  guidance  of  Dr.  Pattison.*  Two  other  noble  women  whom 
the  earliest  pupils  of  Dr.  Pattison  hold  in  grateful  memory 
were  Mrs.  Westbrook,  mother  of  Hattie  and  Maria  Westbrook 
(pages  133,  134),  and  Mrs.  Dauble.  The  former  was  boarding 
at  the  Oread  while  her  daughters  were  being  educated  there, 
and  she  was  mother  and  sunshine  and  comfort  to  us  all.  Mrs. 
Dauble  was  a  beautiful  Christian  woman,  who  had  been  a 
missionary  (see  page  29),  and  was  Matron  for  one  year  under 
Miss  Dodge,  and  one  year  under  Dr.  Pattison. 

"The  religious  and  moral  influence  of  this  school-home  was 
all  the  stronger  in  that  we  felt  no  compulsion,  only  the 
silent  influence  of  the  upright  and  lovable  characters  that 
surrounded  us. 

"In  order  to  make  his  ideal  of  a  family  school  more  sure 
of  attainment  Dr.  Pattison  limited  the  number  of  boarding 
pupils  to  twenty-five,  and  there  were  about  as  many  more  day 
pupils  from  the  city.  The  total  number  of  pupils  enrolled  in  the 
catalogue  of  i860  was  thirty-seven,  in  that  of  1862  forty-two,  in 
that  of  1862-63  fifty-one,  and  in  that  of  1863-64  sixty-one.     As 

*  "No  account  of  Dr.  Pattison's  family  would  be  complete  without  a 
reference  to  Maggie,  the  jolly,  good-natured  Irish  cook,  who  always  had 
something  good  to  eat  to  offer  us  whenever  we  passed  through  the 
kitchen.  We  all  remember  when  Maggie  was  married  and  a  number 
of  us  rose  very  early  and  went  down  to  the  Catholic  Church  to  see 
the  ceremony,  only  to  find  that  she  had  deceived  us  about  the  time 
and  had  been  married  still  earlier.  We  heard  some  years  afterwards 
that  her  husband  had  become  immensely  wealthy  by  carrying  out  a  suc- 
cessful scheme  for  filling  in  the  Back  Bay  flats  in  Boston,  and  that 
Maggie  was  riding  about  in  her  own  carriage." 


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may  be  seen,  the  Oread  was  at  this  time  a  comparatively  small 
school,  and  this  was  one  important  cause  of  Dr.  Pattison's 
success  in  creating-  the  simple  homelike  atmosphere,  the  impres- 
sion of  unity  and  happiness,  which  made  the  life  at  the  Oread 
during-  these  years  so  attractive,  and  which  would  have  been 
impossible  in  a  large  school. 

"Dr.  Pattison's  administration  covered  the  period  of  the 
Civil  War,  and  the  fact  that,  during  those  troublous  times, 
he  kept  the  school  a  calm  and  peaceful  place,  entirely  free  from 
the  excitement  that  pervaded  the  outside  world,  pays  a  high 
compliment  to  his  wisdom  and  ability.  Our  school  life  was  not 
wholly  untouched  by  the  war  influence.  It  diminished  our 
corps  of  teachers,  for  in  1861  Mr.  Everett  Pattison  left  school 
to  enter  the  army,  and  it  enlarged  our  family,  for  during  the 
first  year  of  the  war  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Arms  Wayland,  a  former 
Oread  teacher,  boarded  at  the  school,  while  her  husband  was 
in  the  army  as  chaplain.  Moreover,  those  of  us  who  had 
relatives  in  the  Worcester  camp  were  allowed  to  visit  our  sol- 
dier friends  if  accompanied  by  teachers.  But  we  were  not 
allowed  to  read  the  war  papers,  though  Dr.  Pattison  informed 
us  of  all  the  important  battles,  and  in  general  the  influence  of 
the  school  was  such  as  to  prevent  our  caring  to  know  more 
about  it  than  that." 

Besides  Dr.  Pattison  and  his  family,  there  were  connected 
with  the  Oread,  in  the  years  1859  to  1864,  eight  other  teachers. 
Mile.  Marie  Bachmann,  Mr.  W.  A.  Greene  and  Professor  Alfred 
Gaudelet  successively  filled  the  position  of  instructor  in  the 
Modern  Languages.  Mr.  Otis  C.  Newcomb  and  Mr.  Sea- 
bury  W.  Bowen  successively  taught  the  Sciences.  Mr.  Edward 
W.  Hall  was  a  teacher  for  part  of  the  time  in  Physics,  Latin 
and  Gymnastics,  while  Mr.  B.  D.  Allen,  the  well-known  and 
beloved  music  teacher,  who  had  already  been  connected  for  so 
many  years  with  the  school  under  the  former  administration, 
continued  to  give  lessons  in  music  to  Oread  pupils,  and  Mr. 
Thomas  Edwards  gave  instruction  in  painting.  But  of  these, 
only  four.  Mile.  Bachmann,  Mr.  Newcomb,  Mr.  Bowen  and  Mr. 
Hall,  were  resident  instructors.  The  others  simply  came  to  the 
school  for  their  classes.  These  resident  teachers  entered  into 
the  home  spirit  of  the  school  with  readiness  and  sympathy. 
They  are  indelibly  impressed  on  the  memories  of  the  Oreades 


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of  those  days :  Mr.  Hall  as  a  man  active,  practical  and  social ; 
Mr.  Newcomb  as  the  typical  scholar,  retiring  and  reticent,  but 
none  the  less  interested  in  all  that  went  to  make  up  the  pleasant 
life  of  the  school;  Mr.  Bowen  as  a  teacher,  pleasant,  patient 
and  courteous ;  Mile.  Bachmann,  called  by  the  girls  "Madame 
Bachmann,"  as  a  bright,  jolly,  and  rather  stout  little  French- 
woman, always  smiling,  and  always  making  the  most  amusing 
mistakes  in  her  attempts  to  speak  English. 

From  1859  to  1864  twenty-two  young  women  received 
degrees  from  the  Oread.  There  were  seven  graduates  in  the 
class  of  1861,  six  in  the  class  of  1862,  one  in  the  class  of  1863, 
and  eight  in  the  class  of  1864. 

In  1864  Dr.  Pattison  accepted  a  call  to  a  professorship  in 
Theology  in  Shurtleft"  College,  Upper  Alton,  111.,  and  was  let 
go  from  the  Oread  with  deep  regret.  Dr.  Shepardson  and 
Miss  Packard  succeeded  him  as  Principals  of  the  school. 


REMINISCENCES  OF  THE  OREAD  UNDER 
DR.  PATTISON 


BY   HELEN   KENDRICK   JOHNSON 


HOW  delightful  it  is  that  the  wave  of  memory-revival  that 
has  been  passing  over  our  nation,  our  states,  and  our 
birthplaces,  has  touched  with  its  foam-crested  ripple  the  life 
we  Americans  of  the  passing  generation  lived  as  students. 
The  school-house  beside  the  church  presented  to  the  eye  the 
true  sources  from  which  the  inward  life  and  power  have  been 
drawn  in  this  republic,  and  to  gather  up  their  lessons  for  our 
pleasure  and  the  profit  of  our  descendants  is  a  grateful  task. 

Among  all  the  figures  that  rise  at  the  bidding  of  my  school- 
day  memory  none  stands  before  me  with  a  more  gracious 
benediction  than  that  of  Dr.  Robert  E.  Pattison,  Principal  of  the 
Oread  Institute.  His  tall  form,  slightly  bent,  but  graceful  and 
elegant  in  its  movements,  his  dark  hair,  shaded  with  silver, 
his  delicate  features  and  small,  firm  lips,  his  grey  eyes  lighted 
always  with  intelligence  and  thought,  but  brimming  with  quiet 
mirthfulness  that  was  contagious,  all  these  come  vividly  to  mind. 
Dr.  Pattison  was  a  friend  to  the  young  because  he  better  under- 
stood how  to  put  himself  into  their  places  than  any  man  whom 
I  recall.  There  was  a  genial  tenderness  of  feeling  that  formed 
the  background  of  a  nature  that  was  also  notable  for  its 
unaffected  learning  and  piety.  These  qualities  made  him  a 
model  teacher.  He  aroused  interest,  and  his  child-like  spirit 
made  the  youngest  pupil  in  his  classes  feel  that  her  opinion 
would  receive  attention,  and  would  be  given  its  full  weight. 
In  our  study  of  mental  and  moral  philosophy  the  sessions  were 
not  so  much  recitations  as  they  were  discussions  which  brought 
deep  things  to  light  in  the  simplest  and  clearest  manner.  The 
bearing  upon  daily  and  practical  life  seemed  to  be  always  in 
Dr.    Pattison's    mind,    and    there    was    no    suggestion    of    the 


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abstruse  or  unknowable  in  his  expositions.  He  was  especially 
happy  with  illustration  and  incident  that  at  once  elucidated  and 
fixed  the  meaning  of  the  text. 

Dr.  Pattison  was  an  old-time  scholar,  and  classic  literature 
and  poetic  quotation  came  to  his  lips  readily  when  the  occa- 
sion permitted.  Education  in  his  conception  was  a  broad  and 
significant  thing.  The  literary  element  was  especially  encour- 
aged in  the  Oread  of  that  day.  This  distinction  might  seem 
superfluous  in  reference  to  an  educational  institution,  but  it 
has  a  definite  meaning.  There  is  an  entire  class  of  studies  that 
were  unheard  of  or  unformulated  then,  and  which  drive  out  a 
great  deal  of  the  classic  and  the  literary.  Psychology  and 
sociology  were  untaught  even  in  college.  Philosophy  seems  a 
new  science,  while  the  modern  sciences  have  wrought  a  revolu- 
tion in  thought  and  in  the  methods  of  its  presentation.  There  is 
not  time  for  all,  nor  human  brain  enough  to  hold  it,  and  so  the 
old  standard  classic  and  literary  knowledge  is  pushed  to  one  side 
to  make  room  for  the  new-comer.  This  may  be  necessary,  and 
it  would  be  as  idle  as  it  would  be  ignorant  to  condemn  the  pres- 
ent, but  there  is  great  loss  in  this  abandonment.  Mind  spoke 
to  mind  more  easily  through  the  strictly  literary  studies.  Lan- 
guage, history,  composition,  recitation,  class-reading,  all  these 
brought  teacher  and  pupil  together  in  a  more  natural  intimacy 
than  comes  with  the  modern  method  of  lecture  and  note-taking. 
There  is  in  school  to-day  but  little  sauntering  in  the  fields  of 
thought.  The  automobile  method  of  education  is  more  in 
fashion,  where  the  strained  eye  and  tense  action  indicate  that 
the  flying  traveler  sees  nothing  of  the  landscape  except  a 
blurred  impression  of  dancing  trees  and  a  whirling  dust-cloud. 
In  the  days  of  which  I  am  writing  we  journeyed  not  so  much 
to  get  over  the  ground  as  to  understand  and  enjoy  the  world 
we  passed  through,  and  the  cultivated  and  literary  taste  of  Dr. 
Pattison  and  his  family  made  them  guides  to  be  highly  prized. 
The  school  paper  was  made  a  feature  of  the  curriculum.  Sup- 
plementary reading  and  research  were  encouraged.  The  Bible 
was  a  valued  text-book,  and  Sunday  was  a  welcome  day.  Dr. 
Pattison  selected  pupils  in  turn  to  prepare  brief  studies  in  the 
Scripture  for  parlor  reading.  I  remember  the  great  pleasure 
I  found,  for  instance,  in  writing  a  connected  narrative  of  the 
resurrection  of  Christ,  compiled  from  the  gospel  accounts.     It 


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has  fixed  on  my  memory  a  natural  succession  of  those  wondrous 
events.  On  Sabbath  evenings  we  had  social  reunions  in  the 
drawing-room.  There  was  music  always,  but  we  gathered  in 
groups,  sitting  on  footstools  or  even  on  the  floor  to  get  close 
together,  and  the  whole  tone  of  the  conversation  was  cheerful 
and  spontaneous.  It  was  wholesome  and  sweet  and  sent  us  to 
our  rooms  in  a  happy  frame  of  mind. 

One  interesting  memory  of  stated  Sabbaths  comes  to  mind. 
Dr.  Pattison  was  invited  by  the  authorities  of  the  institution  to 
preach  to  such  members  of  the  Hospital  for  the  Insane  as  were 
able  to  attend  divine  service  with  any  benefit.  His  words  and 
manner  would  have  held  the  attention  of  the  simplest  mind  that 
could  listen  at  all.  I,  with  others,  went  with  him  to  form  a 
little  choir,  and  it  was  a  pathetic  and  pleasant  task.  Dim  faces 
would  light,  and  hopeless  ones  smile,  while  some  showed  full 
intelligence  as  to  the  themes  presented. 

Dr.  Pattison  had  clear  ideas  of  discipline,  and  novel  theories 
concerning  it,  some  of  which  come  to  mind  as  I  write.  For 
instance — my  most  intimate  friend,  Clara  Thayer,  now  Mrs. 
Perry,  and  I  went  one  day  to  ask  permission  to  go  down  town 
to  do  some  errands.     Dr.  Pattison  said,  "Anybody  else  going?" 

"No,  sir."   we  answered. 

"You'd  better  invite  Esther,"  said  he,  smiling.  "I  have 
observed,"  he  added,  "that  three  girls  have  a  quieter  journey 
to  town  than  two  or  four  do.  Two  girls  with  their  arms  linked 
form  an  electric  connection,  but  a  trio  somehow  breaks  the  chain 
of  mischief.     Get  Esther,  and  be  off." 

Esther  was  "Essie"  Davids,  a  beautiful  girl,  my  roommate, 
and  a  favorite  with  all  during  those  good  years  at  the  Oread. 

There  was  a  delightful  atmosphere  of  hominess  in  our  school 
life.  Mrs.  Pattison  was  an  ideal  house-mother,  always  cheery 
and  cordial ;  and  her  parlor  held  a  welcome  for  all  girls,  espe- 
cially the  homesick.  Dr.  Pattison's  daughters,  Miss  Fannie  and 
Miss  Ettie,  as  we  knew  them  then,  were  among  the  noble  women 
of  the  earth.  They  were  both  teachers  and  have  left  an  indelible 
impression  upon  their  scholars.  They  presented  a  great  con- 
trast in  appearance  and  in  character,  each  having  her  own  charm 
and  her  devoted  band  of  adherents.  I  was  fortunate  enough  to 
be  taken  as  a  roommate  for  one  term  by  Miss  Fannie.  She 
shared  to  the  full  her  father's  literarv  tastes.     We  read  manv 


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books  together,  and  one  incident  of  that  time  suggests  the  spirit 
that  I  have  desired  to  portray.  Miss  Fannie  had  given  me 
Hale's  "Man  Without  a  Country,"  to  read,  and  I  had  become 
so  absorbed  in  it  that  I  failed  to  hear  the  bell  for  evening 
prayers.  The  quiet  of  the  halls  somehow  aroused  me  and  I 
rushed  downstairs  only  in  time  to  hear  the  closing  hymn.  Dr. 
Pattison  followed  me  with  his  eye  as  I  slipped  into  my  seat. 
After  chapel  I  went  to  him.  To  the  rebuke  in  his  eye  I 
answered : 

"Oh,  Dr.  Pattison,  have  you  read  'The  Man  Without  a 
Country?'  " 

"No,  not  yet,"  he  answered. 

"Then  don't  scold  me  till  you  have,"   said  I. 

"So  that  was  it,"    he  answered,  smiling,  and  I  felt  forgiven. 

There  was  another  resident  of  the  building  whose  presence 
was  a  blessing  to  all  within  its  walls.  It  was  Mrs.  Binney,  sister 
of  Dr.  Pattison,  and  a  returned  missionary  from  Burmah.  All 
that  I  had  ever  conceived  of  the  life  of  one  who  had  carried 
Christ's  commission  to  distant  lands,  was  fulfilled  in  this  saintly 
and  fascinating  woman.  Though  she  was  a  constant  sufferer, 
her  face  never  lost  its  genial  smile,  nor  her  voice  its  melodious 
sweetness.  It  was  one  of  our  great  privileges  to  be  able  to 
carry  her  the  wild  flowers  we  gathered,  to  tell  our  small  adven- 
tures, and  listen  to  the  wonderful  story  of  her  missionary  life. 


OREAD  TEACHERS  FROM  18>9  TO  1864 

DR.   PATTISON   AND   HIS   FAMILY 


Rev.  Robert  Everett  Pattison,  D.D.,  was  born  in  Benson, 
Vt.,  August  19,  1800.     His  father  was  a  Baptist  minister,  and 
although,  after  the  completion  of  his  school  course,  he  him- 
self entered  business,  his  tastes  im- 
pelled him  to  follow  in  his  father's 
footsteps.      To  this  end  he  entered 
Amherst  College  and  graduated  in 
the  class   of    1826.      While   pursu- 
ing his  theological  studies  he  taught 
for  one  year  in  Columbian  Univer- 
sity, Washington,  D.  C,  and  later 
was    Professor  of   Mathematics   in 
Waterville  College. 

In  1833  he  was  ordained  to  the 
gospel  ministry,  and  was  first  settled 
over  the  Second  Baptist  Church  in 
Salem,    Mass.       His    next    charge 

was  the  old  historic  First  Church  of  Providence,  R.  I.  In 
1836  he  was  called  to  the  Presidency  of  Waterville  College 
(now  Colby  University),  and  remained  here  for  three  years, 
until  the  institution  was  closed.  He  held  a  pastorate  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  for  one  year,  and  then  returned  to  his  former 
charge  in  Providence.  In  1842  he  was  made  Secretary  of  the 
Home  Department  of  the  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union, 
and  held  this  position  till  he  was  called  to  the  Presidency  of 
the  Western  Baptist  Theological  Seminary  in  Covington,  Ky. 
Here  he  remained  until  1848,  when  he  became  a  professor  in 
the  Theological  Seminar)'  at  Newton,  Mass.  He  remained  at 
Newton  for  six  years,  and  in  1854  was  recalled  to  the  Presi- 
dency of  Waterville  College,  which  had  been  reopened  in  1841. 
Failing  health  compelled  him  to  resign  this  position  in  1857, 
and   for  two  years  he  lived  quietly  in  Worcester. 

In  1859,  his  health  being  nearly  restored,  he  became  Princi- 
pal  of   the  Oread,   and   held   this   position   for  five  years.     In 


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1864  he  was  called  from  the  Oread  to  a  Professorship  in  the 
Theological  Department  of  Shurtleff  College  at  Upper  Alton, 
111.,  and  in  1870  he  accepted  a  similar  position  in  the  Union 
Baptist  Theological  Seminary  in  Chicago.  He  died  at  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  November  21,  1874. 

Dr.  Pattison  published  one  book,  a  "Commentary  on  the 
Epistle  to  the  Ephesians"  (Boston,  1850).  The  degree  of  D.D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Brown  in  1838. 

By  his  first  wife  he  had  two  children,  Eliza  and  Sarah.  His 
second  wife,  Frances  Wilson,  was  the  mother  of  four  children, 
Frances,  Everett,  Juliet  and  James  William.  His  third  wife, 
Ella  Woods,  was  the  Mrs.  Pattison  known  to  Oreades. 

Mrs.  Robert  Everett  Pattison,  nee  Ella  Woods,  was  the 
daughter  of  Rev.  A.  Woods,  and  niece  of  Dr.  Lemuel  Woods 
of  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  She  was  a  native  of  Ver- 
mont and  was  married  to  Dr.  Pattison  when  he  was  President 
of  Waterville  College.  She  was  a  woman  of  sweet  Christian 
character  and  rare  culture,  and  rendered  invaluable  assistance 
to  Dr.  Pattison  at  the  Oread.  After  her  husband's  death  in 
1874,  she  resided  with  her  niece,  Mrs.  George  Dana  Boardman, 
in  Philadelphia  till  her  death  in  1893. 

Frances  Pattison   (known  at  the  Oread  as    "Miss  Fannie") 


i^fe 

V  *  m 

' 

was  born  in  Waterville,  Me.,  September  to,  1837.     At  the  age 
of  seventeen   she  commenced  her  career  as  a  teacher  of  the 


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higher  branches  and  also  of  music.  She  was  associated  with 
her  father.  Dr.  Pattison.  at  the  Oread,  where  she  was  a  never 
failing  inspiration  to  highest  attainments,  not  only  intellectually, 
but  also  aesthetically  and  spiritually. 

September  18,  1867,  at  Upper  Alton,  111.,  she  was  married 
to   Rev.   John    Packer,   then   pastor  ^^^ 

of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  Fort 
Madison.  Iowa.  Two  years  later  he 
was  elected  to  the  chair  of  Greek 
and  Latin  in  the  State  University, 
Columbia,  Mo.  From  there  he  was 
called  by  the  American  Baptist  Mis- 
sionary Union  to  Rangoon,  Burmah, 
to  take  charge  of  the  Rangoon 
College.  This  position  he  occu- 
pied for  fourteen  years,  when,  at 
his  own  request,  he  was  sent  to 
open  a  new  station  at  Meiktila. 
Northern  Burmah. 

Whether  at  the  college,  or  at  the  mission  station,  teaching 
the  children,  visiting  from  house  to  house,  or  carrying  the  gospel 
to  the  neighboring  villages,  Mrs.  Packer's  consecrated  fidelity 
never  faltered.  She  died  December  19,  1898,  and  sleeps  in 
the  English  Cemetery,  Meiktila,  Burmah.  Her  husband  is 
still  laboring  at  Meiktila. 

They  had  three  children,  of  whom  the  eldest,  Juliet  Packer, 
died  in  infancy.  There  are  living  Elizabeth  E.  Packer,  born 
in  Columbia,  Mo.,  now  teacher  of  Latin  in  the  High  School  at 
Glencoe,  111.,  and  Everetta  P.  Packer,  born  in  Rangoon, 
Burmah,  now   kindergarten  teacher  in  Chicago. 


Everett  Wilson  Pattison,  the  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Pattison,  was 
the  instructor  in  Mathematics  at  the  Oread  in  1859-1861.  He 
also  had  some  few  pupils  in  Greek,  and  in  addition  had  charge 
of  the  calisthenics.  He  says:  "Those  who  may  not  remember 
me  for  any  other  reason,  will  undoubtedly  recall  that  T  was 
the  one  who  gave  them  only  five  minutes  to  get  out  of  their 
ordinary  clothes  and  into  their  gymnasium  clothes,  and  wdio 
placed  a  demerit  mark  against  the  name  of  anyone  who  exceeded 
this  time  by  so  much  as  a  second."      He  used  to  sav  that  the 


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girls  of  the  Oread  were  a  standing  refutation  of  the  calumny 
that  it  takes  forever  for  a  woman  to  dress. 

He  was  horn  on  the  22A  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1839,  at  Waterville,  Ale., 
when  Dr.  Pattison  was  President 
of  the  college.  His  preparatory 
studies  were  pursued  at  Pierce 
Academy,  in  Middleboro,  Mass. 
In  September,  1854,  when  fifteen 
years  old,  he  passed  his  examina- 
tions and  was  admitted  to  Water- 
ville College,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1858,  at  the  head  of  his 
class,  of  which  he  was  the  youngest 
member.  After  graduation  he  was 
for  a  year  principal  of  an  academy 
at  West  Gardiner,  Me.,  leaving  this  position  in  1859  to  take 
his  place  as  instructor  at  the  Oread. 

Here  he  remained  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  in 
1  So  1.  Early  in  May  of  that  year  he  joined  a  company  for 
drill.  He  feared  that  his  father  would  not  allow  his  eldest 
son  to  enter  the  army,  but  when  he  had  himself  settled  the  ques- 
tion of  duty,  he  promptly  presented 
the  matter  to  his  father.  The  reply 
was :  "I  should  be  ashamed  of  you 
if  you  did  not  go  into  your  coun- 
try's service."  He  was  enlisted  in 
Company  I  of  the  Second  Massa- 
chusetts Infantry,  and  was  ap- 
pointed First  Sergeant  of  the  Com- 
pany. 

Everett  remained  in  the  army  un- 
til the  summer  of  1864,  receiving 
his  commission  as  Second  Lieuten- 
ant in  February,  1862,  being  the 
first  man  to  be  promoted  from  the  ranks  to  the  line.  At  the 
battle  of  Cedar  Mountain,  which  took  place  in  August  of  1862, 
he  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant.  He  went 
into  the  battle  the  fourth  ranking  Second  Lieutenant.  He  came 
out  of  it  twenty-five  minutes  later  the  sixth  ranking  First  Lieu- 


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tenant.  His  regiment  took  into  action  twenty-two  officers.  It 
brought  out  only  eight.  In  the  latter  part  of  1863  he  received 
his  commission  as  Captain,  which  rank  he  held  when  he  was 
mustered  out  of  service. 

While  an  instructor  at  the  Oread  he  spent  several  hours  every 
day  in  the  study  of  law.  After  leaving  the  army  he  opened  a 
law  office  in  St.  Louis  in  1865,  and  is  still  in  active  practice 
there. 

Immediately  after  his  graduation  from  college  Mr.  Pattison 
contributed  a  number  of  articles  to  magazines.  That  which, 
perhaps,  brought  him  the  most  commendation  was  one  for  the 
Inter-Collegiate  Magazine,  entitled  "Translation."  For  many 
years  after  commencing  practice  the  demands  of  his  profession 
were  such  that  he  was  unable  to  indulge  his  literary  tastes,  but 
later  he  commenced  to  write  articles  for  law  magazines,  and  at 
a  still  later  period  to  write  law  books.  Notwithstanding  he 
has  had  an  extensive  and  laborious  practice,  he  has  during  his 
leisure  hours  prepared  a  "Digest  of  the  Missouri  Reports," 
in  six  volumes,  has  written  a  work  on  "Code  Pleading,"  a 
work  on  "Criminal  Instructions,"  and  has  prepared  a  book  of 
"Legal  Forms." 

In  1861,  shortly  after  he  enlisted  in  the  army,  Everett  was 
married  to  Marcia  Scott  Whitehouse,  of  Waterville,  Ale.  Mrs. 
Pattison  died  in  May,  1884.  In  September,  1892,  he  married 
for  his  second  wife,  Alice  Maynard  Gould  of  Portland,  Me., 
the  granddaughter  of  the  prohibition  leader,  Neal  Dow. 

Address :    4254  Olive  St.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Juliet  Pattison  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  until  her  graduation 
in  1861.  From  1861  till  1864  she  was  teacher  of  English  litera- 
ture there,  and  was  known  as  "Miss  Ettie."  For  her  biography 
see  page  168. 

James  William  Pattison,  the  youngest  child  of  Dr.  Pattison, 
was  born  at  Boston  (Roxbury),  Mass.,  on  July  14.  1844.  He 
was  Instructor  in  Drawing  at  the  Oread  during  the  latter  part 
of  Dr.  Pattison's  administration.  After  leaving  the  Oread  he 
enlisted  in  the  57th  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry  for  ser- 
vice in  the  Civil  War.  The  57th  was  attached  to  the  First 
Division  of  the  9th  Army  Corps   (General  Burnside),  forming 


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a  part  of  the  great  army  which  General  Grant  assembled  for 
the  final  campaign  of  the  war. 

The  regiment  was  brought  face  to  face  with  the  enemy  at 

the  bloody  battle  of  the  Wilderness, 
where  it  suffered  serious  losses.  The 
day  after  the  battle  of  "The  Crater'' 
(  July  30,  1864),  the  regiment,  which 
had  entered  the  campaign  complete, 
could  muster  for  duty  but  one  offi- 
cer and  about  forty  men,  the  color 
guard  having  been  all  killed  but 
two,  and  the  colors  captured  by  the 
enemy.  At  no  time  after  that  (un- 
til just  before  muster  out)  could  the 
report  for  active  duty  come  as  high 
as  one  hundred  men.  As  may  be 
conjectured,  the  youth  entered  a  boy  and  came  out  a  man. 

Mr.  Pattison  had  determined  to  make  art  his  professional  life 
work  and  made  his  first  appearance  before  the  public  with  war 
sketches  published  in  Harper's  Weekly  during  the  siege.  Re- 
turning home  (then  Upper  Alton,  111.)  in  1865,  he  spent  a 
season  in  the  studio  of  Mr.  Conant,  in  St.  Louis ;  going  thence 
to  New  York  City  for  art  study,  where  he  came  under  the 
influence  of  such  artists  as  the 
brothers  Hart,  Sanford  R.  Gifford, 
and  George  Inness,  his  line  of 
study  being  in  landscape  painting. 
After  this,  he  was  for  five  years 
instructor  in  art  study  at  the  Wash- 
ington University  of   St.   Louis. 

Having  married  Elizabeth,  the 
daughter  of  Prof.  C.  S.  Pennell,  he 
went  (in  1873),  accompanied  by 
his  wife,  to  Dusseldorf,  Germany, 
for  study.  Plere,  very  soon  after, 
Mrs.  Pattison  suddenly  died.  In 
1876  he  was  again  married  to 
Helen  Searle,  an  artist  of  marked  talent,  daughter  of  Henry 
Searle,  architect,  who  was  at  the  time  of  Helen's  birth  a  resi- 
dent of  Burlington,  Vt.     Immediately  upon  their  marriage  the 


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couple  left  Dusseldorf  for  Paris,  making  their  home  in  the 
suburb  called  Ecouen,  where  there  was  an  art  colony  led  by 
such  men  as  Edouard  Frere  and  Luigi  Chialiva.  The  latter 
became  the  master  of  Mr.  Pattison,  and  with  him  he  studied 
the  human  figure,  sheep,  and  cattle.  About  seven  years  were 
spent  here,  Mr.  Pattison  and  his  wife  both  becoming  frequent 
exhibitors  at  the  annual  Salon.  In  1882,  after  some  nine  years 
of  uninterrupted  life  abroad,  Mr.  Pattison  returned  to  America, 
spending  one  year  in  Chicago  and  then  taking  a  studio  in  New 
York. 

Mrs.  Pattison's  health  had  seriously  failed.  To  give  her  the 
benefits  of  a  home  in  the  country,  they  moved  to  Jacksonville, 
111.,  where  Mr.  Pattison  became  the  Director  of  the  School  of 
Fine  Arts,  which  prospered  under  his  management.  However, 
the  talented  woman  who  had  united  her  life  with  his  was  taken 
away  at  the  commencement  of  this  period  (in  1884).  After 
many  years  spent  in  painting,  Mr.  Pattison  took  up  his  work 
in  Chicago  (in  1885),  where  he  was  given  a  chair  of  lecture- 
ship in  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  which  he  now  occupies. 

Of  late  years,  his  time  has  been  largely  employed  in  lectur- 
ing, and  much  writing  on  art  topics.  He  is  the  Art  Editor  of 
The  Chicago  Journal,  a  regular  contributor  to  The  House 
Beautiful,  and  to  many  other  art  and  architectural  publications. 
He  is  the  author  of  "Painters  since  Leonardo,"  an  Art  History 
for  popular  use;  also  "Painters  of  the  XVIIth  and  XYIllth 
Centuries,"  and  the  Dean  of  the  Department  of  Illustration  in 
the  American  Correspondence  College  of  Chicago.  He  is  Secre- 
tary of  the  Chicago  Society  of  Artists  and  a  Director  of  the 
Municipal  Art  League. 

As  painter,  Mr.  Pattison  has  produced  many  pictures  of  land- 
scape with  figures  and  domestic  animals ;  many  marines  and 
pictures  with  tonal  effects.  For  years  he  was  a  regular  exhib- 
itor at  the  National  Academy  in  Xew  York,  the  American 
Y\  ater  Color  Society  of  the  same  city,  and  in  many  other  places, 
including  the  Art  Gallery  of  the  Columbian  Exposition  in  1893. 

In  recent  years  he  has  made  numerous  visits  to  England  and 
France,  where  he  has  given  much  time  to  stud}-  in  museums, 
especially  those  affecting  ancient  decorative  art  and  Oriental 
art. 

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Mrs.  J.  G.  Binney  was  the  sister  of  Dr.  Pattison,  and  was 
born  October  r,  1808,  at  West  Haven,  Vt.  In  her  girlhood 
she  lived  for  some  years  in  Dr.  Pattison's  family  in  Providence. 
Later  she  became  Associate  Principal  of  Charlestown  Female 
Seminary  near  Boston.  In  1833  she  was  married  to  Rev. 
Joseph  G.  Binney,  then  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church  in  West 
Boylston,  Mass. 

Early  in  the  summer  of  1843.  while  located  in  Savannah,  Ga., 
Dr.  Binney  was  called  to  the  training  of  a  native  ministry 
among  the  Karens  of  Burmah.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Binney  sailed 
from  Boston  November  18,  and  arrived  in  Maulmain,  April  6, 

1844.  In  1850,  on  account  of  Mrs. 
Binney 's  ill  health,  they  returned  to 
America,  and  Dr.  Binney  became 
President  of  Columbian  College, 
Washington,  D.  C.  In  1858  he  re- 
turned to  Burmah  as  Principal  of 
the  Karen  Theological  and  Literary 
Institute.  Mrs.  Binney  suffered 
much  from  fever  and  other  ail- 
ments, and  in  1863  she  came  again 
to  America,  this  time  alone,  and 
on  crutches.  The  following  year, 
1863-64,  she  spent  with  her  brother 
at  the  Oread,  where  her  strong  and 
lovely  character,  her  uniform  cheerfulness,  and  calm  trust  in 
God  gave  her  a  wonderful  influence  over  the  young  ladies 
gathered  in  this  home  school.  Her  husband  joined  her  two 
years  afterwards,  and  again  in  1866  both  sailed  for  Rangoon. 
A  year  later  Mrs.  Binney  became  her  husband's  assistant  in 
the  seminary.  At  this  time  she  wrote  the  translation  of  Dr. 
Cutter's  Anatomy  and  Physiology.  When  Dr.  Wade  died  he 
bequeathed  to  her  the  work  of  completing  his  Anglo-Karen 
Dictionary.  This  work  she  finished,  and  carefully  revised  for 
publication.  After  the  death  of  Dr.  Binney  in  1877,'  she  wrote 
his  life,  giving  it  the  title  "Twenty-six  Years  in  Burmah." 
She  remained  at  her  post  until  her  death  in  1884. 

In  summing  up  the  varied  positions  and  responsibilities  to 
which  Mrs.  Binney  was  called  in  life,  we  find  that  whether 
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Boylston  and  Southbridge,  Mass.,  and  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  or  in 
city  pastorates  in  Savannah  and  Augusta,  Ga. ;  as  wife  of  the 
President  of  Columbian  College  in  Washington,  or  sharing 
the  labors  of  the  toiling  missionary  in  the  Kemendine  jungles ; 
whether  an  honored  guest  for  many  weeks  in  the  homes  of 
friends  in  her  own  land,  or  enduring  the  discomforts  of  many 
months  on  shipboard ;  whether  preparing  books  for  her  stu- 
dents, or  cooking  for  her  family  and  pupils ;  whether  cared  for 
in  her  own  long  illnesses,  or  for  fifteen  months  in  her  missionary 
home  caring  for  Dr.  Wade,  slowly  dying  with  cancer ;  whether 
on  ship  Sutlej.  trying  to  save  a  young  British  officer  from  him- 
self and  his  evil  tendencies,  or  in  Burmah,  advising  and  encour- 
aging young  missionaries  and  the  native  Christian  women ; 
whether  with  unwearied  patience  learning  the  Karen  language 
at  Maulmain,  or  in  later  life,  after  the  completion  of  her  three- 
score and  ten  years,  toiling  daily  four  hours  in  completing  the 
Karen  Dictionary ;  whether  a  bride  in  Providence  at  twenty- 
five,  or  a  widow  on  the  Indian  Ocean  at  sixty-nine;  in  joy  or 
sorrow,  in  the  sunlight  of  prosperity  and  in  the  dark  cloud  of 
adversity,  in  assured  success  and  in  seeming  failure,  in  daily 
companionship  with  her  noble  husband,  and  during  three  years 
when  two  oceans  separated  them  ;  in  struggling  and  in  weak- 
ness, in  health  and  in  illness,  living  and  dying,  she  was  a 
representative  Christian  woman,  an  inspiration  to  her  husband 
as  well  as  to  her  fellow  workers  of  two  hemispheres  and  an 
example  for  imitation  to  the  Christian  women  of  the  world. 


J.  Henry  Binney  was  the  adopted 
son  of  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  G. 
Binney.  He  was  the  brother  of 
Harriet  Boynton,  an  Oread  grad- 
uate in  the  class  of  1861,  and 
was  the  son  of  Federal  and  Eliza- 
beth Ann  (Binney)  Boynton.  Pie 
was  born  July  19,  1847,  m  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.  When  he  was  eight 
years  old  his  father  died,  and  he  was 
adopted  by  his  mother's  brother, 
Dr.  Binney,  then  President  of  Co- 
lumbian College,  Washington,  D.  C. 


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In  1858,  when  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Binney  went  to  Burmah,  Henry 
went  with  them  and  remained  till  early  in  1862,  when  he 
returned   to   America,   and   pursued   his   studies   at  the   Oread 

with  Dr.  Pattison,  who  was  Mrs. 
Binney's  brother.  Early  in  1864 
he  entered  the  army,  enlisting  in 
the  57th  Massachusetts  Volunteers, 
and  was  wounded  in  one  of  the 
battles  of  "The  Wilderness."  Af- 
ter recovering  he  rejoined  his  regi- 
ment and  remained  with  it  till  the 
close  of  the  war. 

Mr.  Binney  was  in  business  in 
St.  Louis  for  several  years.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  Indiana 
Medical  College  in  Indianapolis  in 
February,  1878,  and  practiced  as 
a  physician  for  many  years  in  Fullerton,  Neb.,  where  he  died 
in  March,  1901,  of  pneumonia. 

He  was  twice  married — first  to  Nettie  Smith  of  Shenandoah, 
Iowa,  a  relative  of  Millard  Fillmore,  and  after  her  death  to 
Susie  Smith,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  They  had  three  children: 
Nettie,  Millard  and  Joseph.  Nettie  died  of  scarlet  fever.  The 
boys  are  living  and  in  business ;  Joseph  in  Missouri  and  Millard 
in  Fullerton,  Neb. 


ASSISTANT   TEACHERS 

Mile.  Marie  Bachmann  taught  French  and  German  at  the 
Oread  in  the  early  years  of  Dr.  Pattison's  administration.  She 
was  a  native  of  Basle,  Switzerland,  and  after  spending  some 
years  in  America,  she  returned  to  her  home  in  Basle  and  there 
died.     She  had  also  lived  for  a  time  in  Zofingen,  Switzerland. 


William  Arnold  Greene  was  born  in  East  Greenwich,  R.  L, 
November  21,  1822,  and  died  in  Boston,  November  18,  1872.  He 
was  connected  with  that  branch  of  the  Greene  family  to  which 
General  Nathaniel  Greene  and  Colonel  Christopher  Greene 
belonged.  Before  coming  to  Worcester  he  had  been  engaged  in 
business  in  New  York  and  Boston.      During-  his  residence  in 


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Worcester  in  1860-68,  he  taught  at  the  Oread,  at  the  High- 
land Military  Academy,  and  had 
many  private  pupils.  His  subjects 
at  the  Oread  were  Modern  Lan- 
guages and  Elocution. 

He  was  married  May  9,  1842,  to 
Martha  Waldo  Brown.  They  had 
six  children.  The  eldest  enlisted  in 
the  34th  Massachusetts  Volunteer 
Infantry  on  his  eighteenth  birthday. 
Jul}-  3,  1862,  and  served  about  three 
years  in  the  Civil  War,  contract- 
ing a  disease  from  which  he  died  in 
1870.  Two  daughters  only  are  liv- 
ing.    One,  Martha  Gertrude  Green, 

was  an  Oread  pupil  during  the  years  of  her  father's  connection 

with  the  institution. 

Professor  Alfred  Gaudelet,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Greene  as 
teacher  of  French  at  the  Oread,  was  connected  with  that  insti- 
tution in  the  year  1863-64.  He  died  in  Providence  in  1875. 
Mrs.  Gaudelet  was  Miss  Chace  of  Brattleboro,  Vt.  She  died  in 
Boston,  in  1901,  at  the  home  of  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Wm.  Amory. 

Edward  W.  Hall  was  descended 
from  Colonial  and  Revolutionary 
stock  and  was  born  in  Portland, 
Me.,  September  9,  1840.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  in  the  Boys' 
High  School  of  Portland,  and  was 
graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  at 
Colby  College  in  1862.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  was  Assistant  at  the 
(  )read,  giving  instruction  in  Phys- 
ics, Latin  and  Gymnastics. 

In  1863  he  was  appointed  requisi- 
tion clerk  in  the  office  of  Edwin  M. 

Stanton,  Secretary  of  War.  He  remained  in  the  service  of 
the  government  at  Washington  till  1866,  when  he  was  elected 
Professor  of   Modern  Languages  in   Colby   College. 

During  the  academic  year  1872-73  he  had  leave  of  absence 
and  was  a  student  of  philology  at  Gottingen.     On  his  return 


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to  Colby  in  1873,  he  was  made  librarian  and  divided  his  atten- 
tion between  his  classes  and  the  library  till  [891,  when  he  was 
relieved  from  the  duties  of  the  class-room  that  he  might  give  his 

entire  time  to  the  library. 

lie  has  been  a  most  efficient  and 
helpful  librarian,  selecting  wisely 
books  needed  for  undergraduate 
work.  By  his  efforts  the  Colby 
library  has  been  catalogued,  classi- 
fied and  arranged,  and  its  riches 
rendered  accessible  to  all,  until  it 
is  now  the  indispensable  adjunct  of 
every  department  of  instruction  in 
the  college. 

Professor  Hall  was  married  in 
[865  at  West  Rutland,  Yt,  to  Mary 
Sophia  llascall,  granddaughter  of 
Rev.  Daniel  llascall,  founder  of  the  Hamilton  Literary  and 
Theological  Institution,  now  Colgate  University.  Of  their 
four  children,  Celia  was  Assistant  Librarian  at  Colby  in  1891- 
95,  Hascall  Shailer  was  graduated  at  Colby  in  1896,  and 
Marian  was  for  three  years  a  member  of  the  class  of  1902  in 
that  institution. 

Professor  Hall  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws  from  the  University  of  Xew  Brunswick  in  1900,  and  has 
published    "History  of  Higher  Education  in  Maine,"    1902. 
Address:    Colby  University,  Waterville,  Me. 


Otis  C.  Newcomb,  son  of  Joseph 
Milford  and  Hannah  K.  ( Capron ) 
Newcomb,  was  born  in  Easton, 
Mass.,  December  26,  1838,  and  was 
graduated  at  Amherst  College  in 
1862,  receiving  third  class  honors. 
After  graduation  he  taught  one  year 
in  the  Providence  High  School. 

He  came  to  the  Oread  in  1863, 
and  was  teacher  of  Latin,  Mathe- 
matics and  Chemistry  till  February, 
1864,  when  be  was  obliged  to  re- 
siern     on     account     of     ill     health. 


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While  a  teacher  at  the  Oread  he  studied  Medicine  with  Dr. 
Henry  Clarke  of  Worcester.  He  died  of  consumption  on 
November  10,   1866.     Annie  Newcomb,  one  of  Dr.   Pattison's 

pupils,  was  his  sister. 


Seabury  W.  Bowen  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  academy 
in  Attleboro,  Mass.,  and  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts 
at  Brown  University  in  September,  1864.  He  came  to  the 
Oread  as  a  teacher  of  the  Sciences 
in  February,  1864,  while  a  senior  in 
college,  succeeding  Otis  Newcomb, 
who  resigned  on  account  of  ill 
health.  He  remained  till  February, 
1865.  While  a  teacher  at  the  Oread 
he  began  the  study  of  Medicine 
with  Dr.  Henry  Clarke  of  Worces- 
ter. After  leaving  the  Oread  he 
continued  his  medical  studies  at  the 
Dale  U.  S.  A.  Hospital,  also  at  the 
University  of  Michigan,  and  at 
Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College 
in    New    York,    graduating    at    the 

latter  institution  in  1867.  The  same  year  he  began  the  practice 
of  Medicine  in  Fall  River,  where  he  still  resides.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Fall  River  Medical  Society,  the  Bristol  County 
Medical  Society,  and  the  State  Medical  Society  of  Massachu- 
setts. He  has  been  City  Physician,  Trustee  of  the  State  Work- 
house at  Bridgewater,  and  was  for  ten  years  connected  with 
the  Fall  River  Hospital. 

He  was  married  in  1871  to  Phebe  V.  Miller  of  Fall  River,  and 
has  one  daughter,  Florence  Gould,  born  in  1875,  and  married 
to  Horace  M.  Hathaway  in  1900. 

Address:   217  Second  St.,  Fall  River,  Mass. 


OREAD   PUPILS   FROM   1859  TO   1864 
GRADUATES 


CLASS   OF    1861 

"The  Class  of  1861,"  writes  the  class  historian,  "deserves 
more  than  passing  notice.  We  were  seven.  The  first  to  pass 
on  was  Abbie  Stillwell,  the  merriest,  brightest  of  our  number. 
It  was  through  her  influence  that  we  formed  a  class  associa- 
tion with  president  and  secretary,  and  through  all  these  years 
have  never  failed  to  write  our  semi-annual  letter.  Recently  we 
learned  of  a  second  death,  that  of  Juliet  Pattison.  All  have 
married  but  one,  and  she,  so  kind  of  heart  and  strong  of  intellect, 
has  mothered  and  helped  many  young  men  and  women  into 
better  and  nobler  lives.  Our  class  has  added  to  its  number  six 
husbands,  twenty-one  children,  seven  sons'  wives,  two  daughters' 
husbands  and  nine  grandchildren.  We  have  lost  by  death  two 
classmates,  two  husbands,  six  children,  so  we  number  to-day 
forty-two.  Our  husbands  and  sons  have  filled  positions  as 
ministers,  lawyers,  brokers,  editors,  real  estate  men,  presidents 
of  colleges,  teachers,  aldermen,  members  of  the  Army  and 
Navy,  members  of  school  boards,  presidents  and  secretaries 
of  boards  of  trade ;  all  able  and  influential  men,  who  have 
labored  earnestly  for  the  advancement  of  the  communities  in 
which  they  have  lived." 

L.  Eleanor  Bliss,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Lydia  (Humphry) 
Bliss,  was  born  in  June,  1838,  in  Seekonk,  Mass.,  now  East 
Providence,  R.  I.  She  was  of  English  ancestry.  Her  father 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  Thomas  Bliss,  who  was  born  in  1580 
in  Balstone  Parish,  County  of  Devonshire,  England.  He  was  a 
wealthy  landholder,  but  being  a  Puritan  suffered  severe  per- 
secution from  the  church  party  in  power.  His  grandson, 
Thomas  Bliss,  came  to  America  in  1630.  He  landed  in  Boston, 
whence  he  removed  to  Braintree,  Mass.,  thence  to  Hartford, 
Conn.,  and   from   there  back  to   Weymouth    (near  Braintree), 


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from  which  place  he  with  many  others  removed  to  a  new  settle- 
ment purchased  from  Massasoit  and  called  by  them  Rehoboth. 
From  this  Thomas  Bliss,  Eleanor's  father  was  directly 
descended.  He  was  born  in  Rehoboth,  as  were  his  ancestors 
for  four  preceding  generations.  Her  mother,  Lydia  Hum- 
phry, was  daughter  of  David  Humphry  who,  when  but  a 
boy,  served  as  "minute  man"  in  the  American  Revolution,  and 
whose  father,  Lieut.  John  Humphry,  received  his  commis- 
sion from  King  George  II,  and  served  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War. 

Eleanor  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1859,  and  was  grad- 
uated in  June,  1861.  She  taught  three  years  after  leaving 
school,  and  in  February,  1867,  was  married  to  John  Mumford 
Dexter  at  the  old  homestead  where  she  was  reared,  and  where 
her  ancestors  had  resided  since  the  first  settlement  of  New 
England ;  the  place  having  been  successively  in  the  towns  of 
Rehoboth  and  Seekonk,  Mass.,  and  East  Providence,  R.  I.,  as 
the  towns  have  been  subdivided  and  the  boundaries  of  the 
states  changed.  Her  husband  was  a  direct  descendant,  in  the 
sixth  generation,  of  Rev.  Gregory  Dexter,  who  joined  Roger 
Williams  in  Providence  in  1644,  where  he  became  a  distinguished 
personage.  He  was  one  of  the  persons  named  by  Charles  II  in 
his  charter  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  one  of  the  Assistants 
under  the  authority  granted  in  that  charter.  He  was  one  of 
the  Town  Clerks  of  Providence,  and  held  various  other  civil 
offices  of  the  town  and  colony.  His  literary  attainments  were 
of  a  high  order.  He  was  the  fourth  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Providence,  the  first  church  of  that  denomination 
in  the  New  World,  established  by  Roger  Williams  in  1638. 

Eleanor's  husband,  John  Mumford  Dexter,  was  an  officer  in 
the  U.  S.  Navy,  serving  on  the  Potomac  until  the  close  of  the 
Civil  War.  He  was  then  in  the  Revenue  Marine,  stationed  at 
Cleveland,  Baltimore  and  Savannah  until  1870,  when  he 
resigned  and  started  a  banking  business  in  Brunswick,  Ga. 
For  twenty  years  he  was  an  active  business  man  in  that  town, 
where  he  acquired  the  respect  of  the  whole  communitv  by  his 
honorable  business  conduct,  standing  ready  at  all  times  to 
advance  the  interests  of  the  town,  both  by  purse  and  work. 
He  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  Board  of  Trade  and  was  its 
Secretary  until  illness  compelled  him  to  desist  from  all  private 


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and  public  work.  Only  one  child,  an  adopted  daughter, 
Agnes,  gladdened  this  home.  After  Mr.  Dexter's  death  in  1890, 
Eleanor  and  her  daughter  came  North  and  made  their  home  in 
Providence,  R.  I.,  until  Agnes,  after  her  lovely  life  of  nineteen 
years,  left  her  "for  the  Better  Land."  Since  then  Mrs.  Dexter 
has  resided  with  her  niece,  Mrs.  Eleanor  Allison. 

Address:  Mrs.  Eleanor  15.  Dexter,  56  Warren  Ave.,  East 
Providence,  R.  I. 

Harriet  L.  Boynton,  daughter  of  Federal  and  Elizabeth  Ann 
(Binney)  Boynton,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  August  7, 
1843.  Her  ancestors  on  her  father's  side  were  French  and 
English,  coming  from  Wintringham,  East  Riding  of  Yorkshire, 
where  they  were  settled  before  the  eleventh  century,  and  where 
John  Boynton  was  born  in  1614.  He  came  to  this  country  with 
his  brother  in  1638,  and  settled  in  Rowley,  Mass.  Abraham, 
Harriet's  great-great-grandfather,  died  at  the  siege  of  Louis- 
burg  in  the  French  and  Indian  War.  Her  father  was  named 
for  the  Federal  Constitution,  in  which  his  father  was  very  much 
interested.  Her  ancestors  on  her  mother's  side  were  Scotch 
and  English,  coming  from  Worksop,  Nottinghamshire,  Eng- 
land. John  and  Mercy,  his  wife,  settled  in  Hull,  Mass.,  in  1678. 
Harriet's  mother  was  sister  of  Dr.  Joseph  G.  Binney  of  Ran- 
goon, Burmah,  who  was  a  Missionary  for  twenty-six  years,  and 
President  of  Karen  Theological  Seminary.  On  his  last  voyage 
out  to  Burmah  he  died  and  was  buried  in  the  Indian  Ocean. 
His  body  lies  on  one  side  of  the  Island  of  Ceylon,  and  Dr. 
Judson's,  the  first  Missionary,  on  the  other  side  of  the  island. 
Mrs.  Binney  was  a  sister  of  Dr.  Pattison,  a  highly  cultivated, 
gracious,  Christian  woman. 

Harriet  entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  1859  and  was  grad- 
uated in  June,  1861.  She  wrent  West  for  a  year  and  returned 
East  to  Erie,  Pa.,  where  she  was  married  to  George  W.  Gunni- 
son, November  5,  1862.  After  spending  some  ten  years  in 
Erie,  one  year  in  New  York,  and  three  more  years  in  the  West 
(Iowa),  they  settled  in  Boston,  where  they  lived  many  years. 
Mr.  Gunnison  died  in  1878,  and  the  family  remained  in  the  old 
home  till  the  ill  health  of  the  children  made  it  necessary  to  go 
to  a  farm  twenty  miles  inland,  where  they  remained  until  1902, 
when  they  moved  to  Wellington  Hill,  Mattapari,  Mass. 


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Mr.  Gunnison  was  a  graduate  of  Jefferson  College,  Pa.,  and 
of  Newton  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  ordained  in  the 
ministry  and  was  settled  over  churches  in  Michigan  and  Massa- 
chusetts for  several  years.  He  was  President  of  Burlington 
University,  Iowa,  Principal  of  Erie  Academy,  and  of  Mayville 
(  X.  V.  )  Academy.  He  was  Professor  of  Greek  and  French 
in  Central  University,  Iowa,  Alderman  of  the  city  of  Erie,  Pa., 
and  Professor  of  Commercial  Law  in  Erie  Commercial  College, 
1864-1870.  He  was  President  of  Ladies  College,  Worcester, 
a  school  well  known  fifty  years  ago,  in  1858-59.  He  was 
Mayor  of  Shenandoah,  Iowa,  in  1873.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Erie  Bar  and  after  settling  in  Boston  was  admitted  to  the 
Suffolk  County  Bar.  He  compiled  the  Gunnison  Genealogy, 
which  was  published  after  his  death.  His  first  wife  was  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Dr.  R.  E.  Pattison.  Of  three  children  by 
this  marriage  two  died  and  only  one,  George,  the  eldest,  sur- 
vived his  mother.  He  was  born  August  22.  1855,  in  Burling- 
ton, Iowa,  and  was  educated  at  Shurtleff  College,  Upper  Alton, 
111.  In  1874  he  became  editor  and  publisher  of  the  Shenandoah 
Reporter.  He  married  Mollie  C.  Mentzer,  May  1,  1878,  and 
has  four  children :   Sarah  Louise,  George  3d,  Charles  and  Hugh. 

Harriet,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  has  three  children  : 

Binney,  class  baby,  was  born  December  20,  1863.  at  Erie. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Boston  and  the  Rox- 
bury  Latin  School,  and  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College 
in  1886,  magna  cum  laudc.  He  was  elected  to  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Society  on  his  class  rank,  received  honors  in  Mathe- 
matics on  a  thesis  which  was  bound  and  placed  in  Harvard 
College  Library,  and  has  been  used  by  succeeding  mathema- 
tical classes.  He  is  also  a  graduate  of  Newton  and  Crozer 
Theological  Seminaries  and  of  Dr.  Curry's  School  of  Expres- 
sion in  Boston.  He  is  now  teaching  in  the  School  of  Expres- 
sion, Boston,  and  is  Jones  Instructor  of  Elocution  in  Andover 
Theological  Seminar}-. 

Lillian  Gunnison  was  born  January  13.  1867.  at  Erie,  Pa., 
and  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  of  Boston,  the  Girls 
Latin  School,  and  the  School  of  Expression,  and  in  Music  and 
Physical  Culture. 

Hugh  Gunnison  was  born  October  1,  1869.  at  Erie,  Pa.  He 
was  named   for  the  first  Gunnison   who  came  to  this  countrv 


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from  Sweden,  before  163 1.  Tradition  has  it  that  Hugh  came 
to  America  a  single  man  with  an  English  Colony  composed  of 
five  families.  They  reached  Piscataqna  harbor  before  there 
was  any  house  in  Portsmouth,  that  is,  before  1631,  and  when 
there  were  but  two  huts  on  Great  Island,  now  New  Castle. 
Public  records  show  that  Hugh  Gunnison  was  in  Boston  before 
1634,  and  how  much  earlier  cannot  be  ascertained.  As  far  as 
is  known,  the  present  Hugh  was  the  first  Gunnison  named  for 
the  original  Hugh.  He  was  educated  at  Boston  public  schools, 
and  in  Engineering  and  Electricity.  He  married  in  1897  Grace 
Upham  of  Dorchester,  a  young  woman  of  fine  musical  ability. 

Harriet  belongs  to  the  Old  South  Chapter  of  the  D.  A.  R. 
and  to  the  Daughters  of  Massachusetts.  She  is  on  the  Board 
of  the  Baptist  Hospital  and  is  a  Director  of  the  South  Associ- 
ation of  Missions.  She  has  been  active  in  church  work  in  both 
Tremont  Temple  and  the  People's  Temple,  Boston. 

Address :  Mrs.  Harriet  B.  Gunnison,  2$  Duke  St.,  Welling- 
ton Hill,  Mattapan,  Mass. 

Juliet  Pattison,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  R.  E.  Pattison  and 
Frances  Wilson,  his  wife,  was  born  April  14,  1842,  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.  With  the  exception  of  a  few  years  in  Water- 
ville,  Me.,  and  Covington,  Ky.,  the  greater  part  of  her  life  up 
to  young  womanhood  was  spent  in  Massachusetts,  first  in  Rox- 
bury,  then  Newton  Centre,  and  later  Worcester,  where  she  was 
graduated  from  the  Oread  Institute  in  1861,  her  father  being 
the  Principal.  The  following  fall  she  became  a  teacher  in  the 
Oread  and  continued  until  her  father  removed  to  Upper  Alton, 
111.,  in  1864.  She  accompanied  her  parents  West  and  continued 
teaching  until  September  18,  1867,  when  she  was  married  to 
Rev.  George  Kline  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  whose  labors  she  shared. 
He  has  held  various  successful  pastorates  in  Missouri,  Illinois, 
North  Dakota,  Iowa  and  Kansas. 

Mrs.  Kline  had  five  children:  George  Pattison,  born  June  10, 
1869,  at  Springfield,  Mo.,  died  July  13,  1886;  Juliet,  born  Octo- 
ber 16,  1871,  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  died  on  April  14,  1875  ;  Robert 
Everett  Pattison,  born  July  10,  1874,  at  Hinsdale,  111.,  is  Pro- 
fessor of  Oratory  in  Ottawa  University,  Ottawa,  Kan.,  and  was 
married  January  1,  1900,  to  Miss  Clara  Bell  Van  Hooser;  Wil- 
son Lewis,  born   September  7,    1879,  at  Greenville,   111.,  is  at 


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present  a  teacher  in  the  Joliet  (Illinois)  High  School;  Agnes, 
born  June  10,  i88r,  in  Huntington,  Inch,  died  December  17, 
1884. 

Mrs.  Kline  died  February  5,  1905,  in  San  Antonio,  Tex. 

Adelaide  Lane  Smiley,  daughter  of  James  R.  Smiley,  M.D., 
and  Elizabeth  Lane,  his  wife,  was  born  October  10,  1837,  at 
Grafton,  N.  H.  Her  father  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  His 
grandfather,  William  Smiley,  came  to  this  country  in  1727, 
when  two  years  old,  with  his  parents,  Francis  and  Agnes  Smiley, 
from  among  the  Scotch  Covenanters  of  Londonderry,  Ireland. 
They  settled  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  later  in  Londonderry, 
X.  H.  William  married  and  lived  in  Jaffrey,  N.  H.,  where  he 
had  ten  children.  Elizabeth  Lane  was  descended  from  the 
Stratford,  Conn.,  line  of  Lanes,  whose  ancestor,  Robert,  came 
from  England  in  1660. 

Miss  Smiley  entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  i860  and  was 
graduated  in  June,  1861.  Soon  after  leaving  the  Oread  she 
taught  five  years  in  Colby  Academy,  New  London,  N.  H.,  two 
of  these  as  Lady  Principal.  She  was  Preceptress  at  the  Oread 
one  year,  1869-70,  and  then,  for  four  years,  a  teacher  in 
Vassar  College.  In  1877  she  returned  to  Colby  Academy  for 
a  twelve  years'  period  of  service,  and  after  leaving  there  in  1899 
she  became  Principal  of  Moulton  College,  the  Ladies  Depart- 
ment of  McMaster  University  in  Toronto,  Ont.  Here  she  did 
perhaps  the  best  work  of  her  life,  but  was  obliged  by  failing 
health  to  resign  in  1893.  She  has  written  various  missionary 
and  educational  papers  for  delivery. 

Address :   North  Sutton,  N.  H. 

Abbie  Davis  Stillwell,  daughter  of  Samuel  Seabury  and 
Sarah  Ann  (Read)  Stillwell,  was  born  April  3,  1843,  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  i860  and 
was  graduated  in  June,  1861.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she 
lived  at  home  in  Providence  until  her  marriage  October  13, 
1868,  to  Mr.  Elli  A.  Beach,  a  grain  and  commission  merchant 
on  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  She  had  three  children: 
Annie  Stillwell,  born  August  9,  1871  ;  Henry  Lawrence,  born 
December  22,  1872;  Clinton  Stillwell,  born  August  8,  1875,  all 
in  Chicago.  Annie  was  educated  at  Wellesley  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,   Henry  at  the  Armour  and  Art  Institute  of 


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Chicago,  Clinton  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  Henry  was 
married  June  9,  1903,  and  Clinton,  June  30,  1903. 

Abbie  was  a  member  of  a  literary  club,  and  of  the  Apollo 
Musical  Club  of  Chicago,  and  was  engaged  in  church  work 
until  her  death,  which  occurred  on  January  26,  1881. 

The  address  of  her  daughter  is:  Miss  Annie  S.  Beach,  57 
Bryant  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Laura  L.  Thorpe,  daughter  of  Warren  and  Lucy  (Pattison) 
Thorpe,  was  born  February  16,  1841,  at  Gainesville,  N.  Y.  Her 
mother  was  a  sister  of  Dr.  R.  E.  Pattison  and  of  Mrs.  J.  G. 
Binney  of  Rangoon,  Burmah.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  the 
fall  of  1859  and  was  graduated  in  1861.  On  April  23,  1867, 
she  was  married  in  Warsaw,  N.  Y.,  to  Thomas  E.  Woods, 
a  broker.  Later  she  was  injured  in  a  railroad  wreck  which 
made  her  an  invalid  for  some  time.  She  has  one  son  :  Howard 
Thorpe,  born  December  22,  1868,  in  Joliet,  111.,  who  entered  as 
Naval  Cadet  at  Annapolis  when  sixteen  years  of  age.  He  mar- 
ried Jennie  M.  Swander,  daughter  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Swander  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  has  two  children,  Madelaine  and 
Dorothy. 

Laura  was  President  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  for  several 
years.  She  taught  in  the  Joliet  High  School,  also  in  Eldorado, 
Kan.,  and  in  Washington,  D.  C.  She  has  written  poems  and 
has  delivered  several  addresses  on  missions. 

Address :  Mrs.  Thomas  E.  Woods,  568  Amersfort  Place, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Grace  Mason  Weston,  daughter  of  John  Granger  and 
Adeline  Augusta  (Tidd)  Weston,  was  born  September  5,  1840, 
in  New  liraintree,  Mass.  Her  ancestor,  Edmund  Weston,  came 
to  Boston  in  the  ship  Elizaheth  and  Ann,  and  settled  in  the 
town  of  Duxbury  in  the  year  1635,  when  thirty  years  of  age. 
His  son  Edmund  married  Rebeckah  Soule,  daughter  of  John 
Soule  and  granddaughter  of  George  Soule  of  the  Mayflower. 
By  her  Granger  ancestry  she  is  descended  from  Richard 
Warren  of  the  Mayflower.  Her  mother's  grandfather,  Lieut. 
Joseph  Tidd,  and  grandmother,  Sarah  (Monroe)  Tidd,  came 
from  Lexington,  where  they  had  over  thirty  relatives  in  Capt. 
Parker's   company    at   the   battle   of   Lexington.     Their   ances- 


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tors  were  John  Tidd,  who  came  from  England  in  1637,  and 
William  .Monroe,  horn  in  Scotland  and  descended  from  Donald 
Monroe'  (  Baron  of  Fowlis)  of  the  eleventh  century,  who  came 
to  Cambridge  in  1652.  Both  were  prominent  and  wealthy 
citizens  of  Lexington,  and  their  children  were  numerous. 

Grace  Weston  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1859,  and  was 
graduated  June  25,  1861.  In  the  autumn  of  1861  she  went  to 
Barre,  Mass.,  to  teach  in  the  High  School  and  remained  there  till 
1863,  when  she  entered  the  Misses  Anable's  School  at  Abbots- 
ford  Place,  Philadelphia,  to  continue  her  studies  in  French  and 
Music.  The  next  October  found  her  a  governess  of  four 
children  of  Scotch  parentage  in  Chicago,  111.  After  two  years 
she  went  to  Dearborn  Seminary  on  Wabash  Avenue  and  had 
charge  of  the  Intermediate  Department,  with  recitations  from 
the  Collegiate  Department. 

She  was  married  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  October  9,  1866,  to 
Walter  Allen,  a  journalist  and  editor.  In  the  Civil  War  he 
was  Paymaster  in  the  Navy.  Soon  after  the  close  of  the  war 
he  engaged  in  journalism  and  has  been  associate  editor  or  edi- 
tor of  a  number  of  papers.  For  several  winters  he  was  staff 
correspondent  for  the  Boston  Advertiser  and  was  also  clerk  of 
the  Senate  Committee  on  Indian  affairs.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  commission  appointed  by  President  Hayes  to  investi- 
gate the  condition  of  the  Ponca  tribe  of  Indians.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  School  Committee  of  the  city  of  Newton.  He 
is  the  author  of  three  books.  He  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
at  Yale  College  in  1863,  and  that  of  M.A.  in  1893.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  of  the  Edward 
W.  Kinsley  Post.  G.  A.  R.,  and  of  the  National  Association  of 
Naval   Veterans. 

Grace  has  had  seven  children:  Agnes,  born  August  12,  1867, 
died  June  18.  1876;  Grace  Weston,  born  October  11,  1869; 
John  Weston,  born  April  19,  1872  ;  Walter  Hinds,  born  January 
9,  1875:  Abby  Louise,  born  July  3,  1877;  Ethel  Clara,  born 
March  6,  1880,  died  July  26,  1882;  Alice  Miller,  born  lanuarv 
3,  1884. 

Grace  Weston  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  Newton  High 
School  and  was  graduated  at  Smith  College  with  the  degree  of 
B.L.  in  1 891.  She  taught  in  high  schools  principally,  until 
1901.  when  she  was  married,  on  August  7.  to  Frederick  Stearns 
Hollis,    Ph.B.,   Ph.D.     He  is  Instructor  in  Chemistry  at  Yale 


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University.      Their    son,    Frederick    Allen    Hollis,    was    born 
December  22,  1902. 

J.  Weston  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1893,  and  from 
the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1896.  Soon  after  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Massachusetts  Bar  and  entered  the  law  office  of  Long 
(ex-Governor)  &  Hemenway,  Boston.  Although  associated 
with  them,  he  now  has  his  own  office  and  clients.  He  was 
married  June  12,  1901,  to  Caroline  Cheney  Hills,  B.A.,  Smith 
1899,  of  Amherst,  Mass.,  and  resides  at  Newton  Highlands, 
Mass.     Their  daughter,  Helen  Spencer,  was  born  April  8,  1902. 

Walter  Hinds  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale  College 
in  1895.  He  had  honors  in  Mathematics  and  was  awarded  the 
Lamed  Scholarship  in  the  Graduate  School  for  three  years. 
He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  Civil  Engineering  ( 1896)  and 
was  Assistant  Instructor  in  Surveying  in  1897-98.  He  served 
in  the  Connecticut  Naval  Militia  1896-98,  enlisted  as  Seaman 
in  the  United  States  Navy  Tune  15,  1898,  and  was  appointed 
Acting  Naval  Cadet  (after  examination)  July  21,  1898,  and 
assigned  to  U.  S.  S.  Dolphin.  He  was  honorably  discharged 
September  24,  1898.  Soon  after  he  went  to  Mexico  to  engage 
in  civil  engineering  and  remained  over  two  years.  He  is  now 
first  assistant  engineer  on  the  New  Haven  Division  of  the 
New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad. 

Abby  Louise  was  graduated  at  Smith  College  in  1899,  and 
has  remained  at  home  most  of  the  time  since.  She  is  the 
Secretary  of  her  class,  is  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Lucy 
Jackson  Chapter,  D.  A.  R.,  and  a  member  of  the  Mayflower 
Society.  In  1900  and  1901  she  was  engaged  in  genealogical 
research  at  the  Mayflower  Society's  office  in  Boston.  She  was 
married  June  17,  1903  to  John  Nicholson  Eaton  of  Newton. 
Their  daughter,  Janet  Nicholson,  was  born  August  6,  1904. 

Alice  Miller  was  graduated  from  the  Newton  High  School  in 
June,  1903.  She  is  an  excellent  player  on  the  basketball  team, 
and  is  much  interested  in  athletics. 

Mrs.  Allen  is  a  member  of  the  Monday  Club,  a  literary  and 
educational  society  of  Newton  Highlands.  She  also  belongs 
to  the  Lucy  Jackson  Chapter,  D.  A.  R.,  and  to  the  Mayflower 
Society.  Both  societies  are  devoted  to  genealogical  research. 
She  is  also  interested  in  church  charities. 

Address:  Mrs.  Walter  Allen,  1090  Walnut  St.,  Newton 
Highlands,  Mass. 


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Charlotte  Coles  was  born  in  New  York  City  and  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Purdy  Coles  and  his  wife,  Catharine  Clay 
Dodge,  both  natives  of  New  York  City.     Miss  Coles  entered  the 

Oread  as  a  student  in  December, 
1 86 1,  graduating  on  July  1.  1862. 
Her  paternal  ancestors  were  of 
French  and  English  extraction ;  the 
maternal,  English  and  Dutch.  They 
were  loyal  Americans  in  both  cases 
and  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution. One  of  them  was  after- 
wards granted  a  large  tract  of  land 
in  Westchester  County,  Xew  York, 
in  consideration  of  his  services  dur- 
ing that  war,  and  one  appears  as  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati in  1783.  Later  two  ancestors  served  their  country  in 
the  War  of  1812  as  Generals  in  the  Army. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Miss  Coles  became  interested  in 
procuring  relief  for  the  soldiers,  the  Civil  War  being  then  in 
progress.  She  served  on  two  com- 
mittees, being  chairman  of  one,  and 
was  active  in  obtaining  money  and 
supplies  for  the  Brooklyn  Sanitary 
Fair.  She  was  also  instrumental  in 
raising  several  hundred  dollars  for 
the  purchase  of  supplies  for  St. 
John's  Hospital  at  Annapolis,  Md., 
in  the  distribution  of  which  she  had 
some  share,  until,  developing  symp- 
toms of  typhus,  she  was  forced  to 
return  home.  In  1876  she  entered 
the  Xew  York  College  and  Hospi- 
tal   for  Women,   and   graduated   in 

1879.  Afterward  she  attended  dispensary  lectures,  and  for 
several  years  held  at  her  own  home  weekly  charitable  clinics. 
For  some  time  she  devoted  a  part  of  two  days  each  week  to 


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medical  consultations  and  has  had  considerable  practice, 
although  she  has  never  accepted  a  fee  for  medical  service. 

Miss  Coles  was  married  in  New  York  City  by  Rev.  O.  Ii. 
Frothingham,  ( )ctober  30,  1874,  to  Theodore  Parker  Jenkins, 
formerly  a  student  of  mining-  engineering  at  Clausthal  and  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Berlin,  Germany.  At  present  he 
is  a  merchant  in  building  materials  in  New  York  City. 

Airs.  Jenkins  has  no  children.  In  1884  she  became  a  mem- 
ber of  "Sorosis."  and  in  1893  was  made  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Education  in  that  body.  She  has  written  more 
or  less  for  delivery  and  publication.  Her  charities  have  been 
numerous,  and  the  individual  struggling  for  position  or  educa- 
tion has  found  her  helping  hand  outstretched. 

Address :  Mrs.  Theodore  P.  Jenkins,  or  Charlotte  Jenkins, 
M.D.,   "Acacia,"    New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 


Ellen  Pleroma  Palmer  was  born  in  Walpole,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1839.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Palmer 
and  his  wife,  Eleanor  Howard,  both  of  English  extraction,  and 

living  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  when 
their  daughter  entered  the  Oread 
in  the  autumn  of  186 1.  It  is  quite 
certain  that  Miss  Palmer  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Oread  at  some  earlier 
time  than  1861,  for  one  or  more 
terms,  but  details  concerning  that 
period  are  lacking.  At  her  grad- 
uation in  Jul}-,  1862,  she  read  an 
essay  on  "German  Literature — Its 
Influence  upon  the  Christian  Stu- 
dent." She  then  taught  in  the 
public  schools  of  Worcester,  until 
called  to  a  similar  position  in  the 
Hartford  (  Conn. )  Female  Seminary,  where  she  remained  until 
her  marriage  in  Woodstock,  Conn.,  September  2,  1867,  to  Rev. 
Benjamin  Angier  Dean,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College,  who  at 
this  time,  as  a  Congregational  clergyman,  was  engaged  in  mis- 
sionary work  in  the  West.  The  following  two  years  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dean  spent  in  Monticello,  Minn.  Then  for  two  years 
they  were  in  Garnavillo,  Iowa,  after  which  for  six  years  they 


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lived  on  the  frontier.  The  grasshopper  scourge  severely  affected 
all  the  region  and  there  was  much  poverty  and  suffering. 
Mrs.  Dean  kept  "open  house."  distributing  supplies,  feeding  the 
hungry,  clothing  the  naked,  doing  her  Master's  work  with 
the  consideration  and  gentleness  that  always  abode  with  her, 
endured  fatigue,  misfortune  and  hardship  with  fortitude,  and 
was  the  means  of  bringing  joy  and 
happiness  to  many  a  household. 

During  this  period  her  success  in 
obtaining  money  made  possible  the 
building  of  a  church  at  Sibley, 
Iowa.  Recently  ( twenty-five  years 
later)  a  grateful  friend  has  placed 
in  a  fine  new  church  edifice  at  Sib- 
lev,  a  handsome  window  dedicated 
to  her  memory.  From  1879  to 
1883  she  was  settled  in  Exeter.  Neb., 
where  her  husband  had  charge  of 
the  Congregational  parish. 

In  all  this  western  life  Mrs.  Dean 
was  her  husband's  valuable  co-worker,  and  was  very  success- 
ful  in    founding   societies    for   the    furtherance   of   missionary 
work.     She  prepared  little  for  the  press.     The  work  she  best 
loved  was  her  parish  work  among  the  children. 

In  the  educational  interests  of  a  growing  family  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dean  came  East,  and  from  1883  to  1886  Mr.  Dean  was  at 
the  Academy  Church  in  Meriden,  X.  H.,  where  the  two  eldest 
children  attended  the  Kimball  Academy,  for  one  and  two  years 
respectively,  before  entering  Wellesley  College.  Previous  to 
this  time  their  education  had  been  almost  wholly  given  them 
by  their  mother.  In  1891  the  family  removed  to  Harrisville. 
X.  H..  where  Mr.  Dean  had  charge  of  the  yoked  churches  of 
Xelson  and  Harrisville,  then  for  three  years  they  were  at  Brent- 
wood, near  Exeter,  X.  H.,  then  for  four  years  at  Medford, 
Mass..  where  Mr.  Dean  was  also  a  member  of  the  City  School 
Committee.  In  1895  they  removed  to  Colebrook,  Conn.,  where 
Mrs.  Dean  continued  her  labors  in  her  husband's  parish  until 
her  death,  February  2~,  1899.     Eight  children  were  born  to  her: 

Rosa,  born  May  9,  iSC>S,  at  Monticello.  Minn.,  was  educated 
at  Wellesley  and  was  graduated  there  in  1890.     She  was  mar- 


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ried  September  25,  1895,  at  East  Pierre,  So.  Dak.,  to  J.  B. 
Harm,  now  a  photographer  at  Whatcom,  Wash.,  and  has  three 
children. 

Florence,  born  July  20,  1869,  at  Monticello,  Minn.,  was  grad- 
uated at  Wellesley,  and  was  married  at  Colebrook,  Conn., 
August  5,  1897,  to  Harlan  Page  Spaulding,  and  resides  in 
Springville,  N.  Y. 

Austin  Phelps,  born  November  13,  1870,  at  Garnavillo,  Iowa, 
was  graduated  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  in  1889,  and  at 
Harvard  College  cum  laude,  in  1899. 

Grace,  born  March  22,  1872,  at  Garnavillo,  Iowa,  died  April 
11,  1872. 

Rachel,  born  in  Ocheyedan,  Iowa,  March  9,  1873,  died  March 
11,  1873. 

Philip  Redfield,  born  in  Sibley,  Iowa,  March  22,  1875,  was 
graduated  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  in  1892,  and  from  Har- 
vard College  magna  cum  laude,  in  1896.  He  was  married  to 
Frances  E.  H.  Flint  in  1901  and  has  one  child.  He  is  instruc- 
tor in  Physics  at  the  Boys  High  School  in  New  York  City. 

Horace  Bunce,  born  at  Sibley,  Iowa,  November  18,  1876, 
was  prepared  at  the  Medford  (Mass.)  High  School  for  Har- 
vard College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1899.  He  is  now 
teaching  in  Livingston,  Ala. 

Arthur  Benjamin,  born  at  Exeter,  Neb.,  April  19,  1882,  died 
April  21  of  the  same  year. 

From  her  earliest  youth  Ellen  Palmer  had  known  a  life  of 
activity  and  earnest  endeavor.  Her  childhood  was  passed  in 
various  places,  as  her  father  was  a  Methodist  minister.  To 
earn  a  livelihood  and  win  an  education  for  herself  she  worked 
in  a  factory  in  Nashua,  N.  H.,  and  beginning  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  taught  in  the  primary  schools  of  Worcester  until  she 
entered  the  Worcester  Female  College,  where  she  was  a  pupil  a 
short  time  before  going  to  the  Oread.  During  all  these  years 
of  her  young  womanhood  she  was  an  earnest  Christian  worker. 
At  Worcester  she  was  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  School  in  Union 
Church  and  at  the  mission  Sunday  School  as  well,  and  she  was 
also  an  active  worker  at  the  Center  Congregational  Church 
while  in  Hartford. 

She  was  always  interested  in  children,  and  in  the  Western 
parishes  she  conducted  Mission  Bands  and  Temperance'  Bands, 


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and  was  active  in  Christian  Endeavor  and  Sunday  School  work, 
in  addition  to  her  other  duties.  She  had  a  strong  religious  influ- 
ence on  the  young  around  her.  and  was  a  great  favorite  both 
with  her  fellow  pupils  at  school  and  with  her  scholars  when 
she  was  teaching. 

Although,  as  has  been  said,  she  wrote  little  for  publication, 
yet  she  was  not  wholly  inactive  in  this  respect.  She  had  a  large 
correspondence  and  wrote  many  letters  to  friends  in  the  East, 
which  were  of  great  influence  in  keeping  alive  an  interest  in 
home  missionary  work  in  the  West.  She  translated  a  booklet 
from  the  French  of  Rev.  Caesar  Malan,  and  contributed  to  local 
papers,  as  well  as  to  the  Mission  Dayspriug. 

Mrs.  Dean  lies  buried  in  Woodstock,  Conn.  To  those  who 
knew  her  well  she  was  a  rare  woman.  Her  perceptions  were 
keen,  her  kindness  unlimited.  These  characteristics,  combined 
with  a  sweet  disposition  and  a  quick  sense  of  the  amusing, 
made  her  companionship  both  profitable  and  pleasant.  The 
sentiment  expressed  upon  her  tombstone  is  especially  applicable : 
"Her  children  rise  up  and  call  her  blessed." 

Jane  Olivia  Simons  was  born  in  British  Burmah,  March 
4,  1 841.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Simons  and  his 
wife,  Caroline  Jenks  Harrington,  daughter  of  Deacon  Amos 
Harrington  of  West  Brookfield, 
Mass.  Both  of  her  parents  were 
missionaries  and  went  to  India  in 
the  early  thirties  (about  1833). 
The  mother  of  Miss  Simons  died 
when  she  was  only  two  years  of 
age,  and  three  years  later  she 
came  to  America  and  went  to  live 
with  her  grandparents  at  West 
Brookfield.  She  entered  the  Oread 
in  the  autumn  of  1861,  and  at  her 
graduation  in  1862  read  a  poem  in 
memory  of  her  mother,  who  died 
at  sea,  and  was  buried  on  the   "lone 

isle  of  Tellicherri."  She  also  wrote  the  parting  song  of  the 
graduating  class.  She  was  of  a  retiring  disposition,  not  readily 
seeking  friendships,  and  appears  to  have  had  an  extended  cor- 
respondence   with    only    one   of    her    classmates    after    leaving 


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school.  Sometime  in  1873  she  went  to  India,  there  meeting 
her  father  before  his  death  in  1875.  Later  she  was  married 
to  a  Eurasian  minister,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Thomas,  and  lived 
but  a  short  time,  dying  of  cholera  in  1877  or  1878.  She  left 
no  children. 


Emma  Spaulding,  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  was  the  daughter 
of  Erastus  Spaulding  and  his  wife,  Lucy  Locke.     Her  paternal 

ancestors  were  living  in  the  town  of 
Spalden,    in   what   is   now   Lincoln- 
shire,  England,  at  the  time  of  the 
>^5^k  Norman  Conquest.     The  first  Amer- 

' '"    ^^sff  ll '"'   dweller  of  thai    name  came  to 

r-     :*wF  this  country  with  Sir  George  Yeard- 

ley  in  1609,  and  in  1623  was  still  liv- 
ing in  the  Virginia  Colony.  Later 
he  joined  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony,  and  from  him  the  New 
England  stock  has  sprung.  Lucy 
Locke  was  a  member  of  the  English 
family  which  produced  John  Locke, 
the  metaphysician,  and  later  Samuel 
Locke,  who  at  the  first  Commencement  after  he  was  installed 
President  of  Harvard  College  in  1770,  delivered  an  address  in 
Chaldee,  being  also  proficient  in 
Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew.  Ances- 
tors on  both  sides  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  one  in  the  bat- 
tle of  Lexington ;  another,  under 
General  Gates,  was  present  at  the 
surrender  of  General  Burgoyne. 

Miss  Spaulding  entered  the  Oread 
in  December,  1861,  and  graduated 
there  the  following  July.  She  was 
married  (  )ctober  14,  1863,  in  Wor- 
cester, to  Amos  Bartlett  of  Webster, 
Mass.,  who,  after  the  battle  of  An- 
tietam,     closed     his     service     in     the 

(  nil    War   with    the   rank'   of   Captain    in   the   Fifteenth   Regi- 
ment   of    Massachusetts    Volunteers,    and    entered    upon    the 


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manufacture  of  woolen  goods.  After  living  a  short  time  in 
the  Connecticut  towns  of  Rockville  and  Warehouse  Point, 
Mrs.  Bartlett  returned  to  Webster,  where  she  has  since  contin- 
uously resided,  doing  little  outside  work  except  of  a  charitable 

nature,  much  of  which  has  been  done  through  the  Episcopal 
Church  of  her  native  town.  She  has  had  four  children,  all 
with  one  exception  having  been  horn  in  Webster,  and  all  now 
living  in  the  same  town.  Spanlding,  born  in  Warehouse  Point, 
Conn.,  January  10.  1869,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  in 
Webster  and  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1890.  He  was  married  in 
1896,  to  Georgia  Slater,  and  has  five  children.  He  is  now 
Superintendent  for  the  Slater  Woolen  Company.  Walter 
Locke,  born  August  17,  1870,  died  March  6,  1871.  Sydney 
Kingsbury,  born  July  30,  1872,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  and  at  the  Bristol  Academy  at  Taunton,  Mass.  He  is 
Assistant  in  the  Slater  Woolen  Company.  Lucia  Rhodes,  born 
October  26,  1875,  was  graduated  from  the  Webster  High 
School,  and  studied  in  Mr.  Arthur  Gilman's  School  at  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

Address:    Mrs.  Amos  Bartlett,  Webster,  Mass. 

Agnes  J.  Thomas  was  born  in  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Novem- 
ber  23,  1843.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Sylvanus  Thomas  and 
his  wife,  Agnes  Jackson  Martin. 
Her  maternal  ancestors  came  to 
America  on  the  Mayflower,  her 
father's  from  England  in  1642. 
Miss  Thomas  entered  the  Oread  in 
September,  i8f>o.  At  her  gradua- 
tion. July  I,  1862,  she  read  an  essay 
upon  "Genius  in  its  Dependence 
upon  the  Imagination."  She  was  a 
conscientious  and  painstaking  stu- 
dent, and  her  work  was  finished 
and  attractive. 

She  was  married  in  May,  1866,  to 
James  A.  Robert.  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  an 

educator  by  profession,  and  went  immediately  abroad,  as  she 
herself  expressed  it,  for  "pleasure  and  study."  Again  at  a 
later    date,    a    foreign    trip    of    four    months    gave    her    added 


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opportunities  in  a  similar  direction,  the  impulse  to  which  was 
increased  by  the  rare  culture  and  congenial  tastes  of  her  hus- 
band. 

Having  no  children,  she  has  been  able  to  give  herself  more 
freely  to  the  larger  world,  and  she 
has  been  active  in  both  church  and 
club    life.      In    the    course    of    her 
church  work,  which  has  been  always 
nearest   her   heart,    it    has   been   her 
privilege  to  lead  a  class,  with  a  mem- 
bership  of   fifty   married  women,   in 
Bible  study,  and  to  preside  over  the 
Young    People's   Association    of   the 
Home   and   Foreign    Missionary   So- 
cieties, and  also  over  an  Ecclesiasti- 
cal History  Class,  all  connected  with 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Dayton, 
Ohio,   where  she  resides.     Her  ability   and   proficiency  in  the 
study  of  Literature,  both  ancient  and  modern,  and  in  the  his- 
tory and  criticism  of  Literature  and  of  the   Fine  Arts,  have 
placed   her   at   the   head   of   the   Women's   Literary   Club,   the 
pioneer  women's  club  of  the  city,  and  made  her  President  of  the 
Mozart    Society    (which    unites   musical   and   literary    forces), 
and  of  the  Outlook,  also  a  literary  club. 

She  has  also  held  the  office  of  President  of  the  Ohio  State 
Federation  of  Clubs.  While  writing  and  delivering  many 
essays  and  addresses  in  connection  with  her  religious  and  lit- 
erary work,  she  has  never  written  for  publication  and  has 
studiously  declined  all  invitations  in  that  direction.  Neverthe- 
less, an  address  delivered  at  Denver,  Colo.,  at  the  Biennial 
Meeting  of  the  General  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs,  found 
its  way  into  print  in  spite  of  objections. 

Her  present  address  is :  Mrs.  James  A.  Robert,  128  West 
First  St.,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Juliet  L.  Wilcox  was  born  in  Cuthbert,  Randolph  County, 
Ga.,  July  24,  1843.  Her  father,  Horace  Wilcox,  came  from 
Vermont.  Her  mother,  Sally  Brown  Howell,  was  a  member 
of  the  Brown  family  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of   Roger   Williams.     Miss   Wrilcox  entered  the  Oread  in 


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September,  [861,  and  graduating  the  following  July,  read  an 
essay  upon  "The  Roman  Empire  under  the  Antonines."  She 
was  considered  the  best  history  scholar  in  her  class. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught 

school  in  Providence  for  five  years. 

>#^"%-  She  was  married  December  6,  1866, 

A^t^jPi  to   James    Pearl    Reynolds,    a    Xew 

£^r  \+ f  York  State  farmer,  and  lived  near 

kL  Rochester.    X.    Y.,    for    one    year, 

^M  ^3  when  she  journeyed  West,  and  for 

seven    years    made    her    home    near 

Traverse    City,    Mich.      Since    that 

time  she  has  lived  in  Olivet,  in  the 

same  state. 

She  has  five  children,  all  now 
living  in  the  state  of  Michigan, 
and  all  with  one  exception  born 
there:  James  William,  born  October  18,  1867,  in  Xew  Salem, 
X.  Y..  was  married  in  1891.  has  two  children,  and  lives  in 
Battle  Creek,  Mich. ;  Sarah  Knowles,  born  October  18,  1869, 
in  Traverse  City,  was  married  in 
1888  to  Oscar  Butterfield,  has  three 
children,  and  lives  in  Battle  Creek  ; 
Annie  Estelle,  born  October  24, 
1872,  in  Inland,  Benzie  County,  a 
graduate  of  Olivet  College  in  1896, 
was  married  in  1900  to  B.  D.  Xiles. 
also  a  graduate  of  Olivet,  and  now 
a  medical  student  in  the  University 
of  Michigan:  Candace  Wilcox,  born 
February  7,  1875,  in  Walton,  Grand 
Traverse  Co.,  graduated  at  Olivet  in 
1896,  and  is  now  teaching  in  Kala- 
mazoo: Everett  Pearl,  born  at  Walton,  April  19,  1877,  was 
graduated  from  Olivet  College  in  1900.  and  is  now  Principal 
of  the  High  School  and  teacher  of  the  Sciences  at  Hillsdale. 
Address :    Mrs.   Juliet  L.  Revnolds,  Olivet.  Mich. 


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CLASS   OF    I863 

M.  Abbie  Tilton,  daughter  of  Josiah  H.  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Emery)  Tilton,  was  born  October  7,  1841,  in  Limerick,  Me. 
Her  father  served  sixty  years  as  a  minister  in  the  Baptist 
denomination  and  still  lives  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight,  vigorous 
and  active  for  one  of  his  years.  Her  great-grandfather  on  her 
mother's  side,  Joseph  Noyes  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  served  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution  as  Lieutenant  (probably  Lieutenant- 
Colonel).  Abbie  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1861,  and 
graduated  in  June,  1863,  being  the  only  graduate  that  year. 
The  first  twenty  years  after  leaving  school  she  was  engaged 
in  teaching  and  other  employments.  The  last  twenty  years 
have  been  spent  at  home  with  her  parents. 

Address:    139  High  St.,  Reading,  Mass. 


CLASS   OF    1864 

Augusta  P.  Banvard  entered  the  school  in  1861,  graduating 
in  June,  1864.  She  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  August  27, 
1 84 1.     Her  father,  Joseph  Banvard,  was  the  son  of  a  French 


Huguenot,  and  became  a  noted  Baptist  clergyman,  receiving  the 
degree  of  D.D.  from  Shurtleff  College.  Upper  Alton.  111.,  and 
also  the  degree  of  A.M.  from  Columbian  College,  Washington, 
D.  C.     Lie  married  Martha  R.  Prentice,  (laughter  of  Nathaniel 


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Shepherd  Prentice,  M.D.,  for  many  years  a  resident  of  Rox- 
bury.  .Mass.  Dr.  Prentice's  father  lived  in  stirring-  times,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  famous  Boston  Tea  Party. 

(  )n  November  14.  1877.  Miss  Banvard  was  married  at  Nepon- 
set,  Mass..  to  Mr.  Charles  M.  Fales,  a  grocer.  She  is  actively 
interested  in  various  forms  of  church,  charitable  and  missionary 
work. 

Address :  Mrs.  Charles  M.  Fales,  8  Minot  Place,  Xeponset, 
Mass. 

Kate  A.  Harrington  became  an  Oread  pupil  in  September. 
1862,  graduating  in  June,  1864.  She  was  born  at  Westboro, 
Mass.,  August  10,  1843.      Her  father's  name  was  Samuel  Austin 


Harrington,  and  the  maiden  name  of  her  mother  was  Catherine 
Warren.     Her  parents  were  of  sturdy   New  England  descent, 
their  ancestors  being  early  settlers  of  Worcester  County. 
Her  address  is  Westboro.  Mass. 

Flora  Hinds  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  for  several  years, 
graduating  in  June.  1864.  She  was  born  February  8.  1837, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Ephraim  Hinds,  a  lawver.  who  was 
graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1805.  Her  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Maria  Hapgood,  was  the  daughter  of 
Hutchins  Hapgood.  a  leading  citizen  of  Petersham.  .Mass. 

Miss  Hinds  was  married  at  West  Boylston.  Mass..  May  1. 
1867,  to  Charles  H.  Walker,  a  merchant  of  Columbus,   (  )hio. 


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Mrs.  Walker  became  the  mother  of  four  daughters :  Ola  Maria, 
born  June  3,  1869;    Flora  Hortense,  born  February  22,  1871  ; 


Alice  Emma,  born  in  1872;  and  Edith  Nora,  born  in  August, 
1873.  all  in  Columbus,  Ohio.  The  eldest  daughter  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  State  Normal  School  of  Greeley,  Colo.  Three  of 
the  daughters  are  married. 

Mrs.  Walker  was  graduated  from  the  Oread  with  an  excel- 
lent record,  and  her  lovely  Christian  character  secured  for  her 
many  friends ;  but  her  health  was  frail,  and  she  died  March 
20,  1890,  at  Ouincy,  111. 


Louise  J.  Hine  became  a  pupil 
at  the  Oread  in  1863,  graduating  in 
June,  1864. 

She  was  an  excellent  student,  and 
a  person  of  unblemished  Christian 
character,  but  her  life  was  brief, 
as  she  died  in  a  few  months  after 
returning  to  her  home  at  Col- 
chester. Vt. 


Louise  A.  Packard  came  to  the  Oread  as  a  pupil  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1862,  graduating  in  June,  1864.  Her  father's  name  was 
I  k-nry  H.  Packard,  and  the  maiden  name  of  her  mother  Louise 


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Braman.  Miss  Packard  was  born  November  4,  1845,  at  East 
Randolph,  Mass.,  the  name  of  this  town  having  since  been 
changed  to  Holbrook. 

In  1878  she  was  married  to  a  lawyer,  Mr.  Hamilton  L.  Gibbs. 


Ten  years  later  Mr.  Gibbs  built  Hotel  Hamilton  at  Brockton, 
Mass.  where  Mrs.  Gibbs  has  since  resided,  and  of  which  she 
has  had  charge  since  the  death  of  her  husband  in  1893. 
Address  :    Mrs.  Louise  P.  Gibbs,  Brockton,  Mass. 


Nellie  Frances  Rogers  was  enrolled  as  pupil  at  the  Oread  in 
1862,  graduating  in  June.  1864.     She  is  a  native  of  Worcester, 


and  has  been  a  resident  of  that  city  almost  continuously.     Her 
father,  Thomas  Moore  Rogers,  was  a  direct  descendant  of  the 


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Thomas  Rogers  who  came  to  America  in  the  Mayflower,  and 
was  a  signer  of  the  compact  according  to  the  provisions  of 
which  the  Mayflower  Pilgrims  were  to  be  governed.  This 
Mayflower  ancestor  was  Miss  Rogers'  eighth  great-grandfather. 
Her  mother,  whose  name  before  her  marriage  was  Mary  Stevens 
Rice,  is  a  descendant  of  Gersham  Rice,  an  early  settler  in  Wor- 
cester. Miss  Rogers  is  a  member  of  Colonel  Timothy  Bigelow 
Chapter  of  the  D.  A.  R.,  and  she  is  also  much  interested  in  club 
and  charitable  work,  having  held  various  offices  in  connection 
with  the  "Woman's  Club  of  Worcester,  and  also  of  local  chari- 
table societies. 

Miss  Rogers  resides  at  28  High  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Hattie  A.  Smith  became  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  February, 
1863,  graduating  in  June,  1864.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Harriet  Dunham  Smith,  and  was  born  at  Uxbridge.  Mass., 
May  26,  1844. 


Since  leaving  school  Miss  Smith's  life  has  been  a  very  busy 
one.  She  is  connected  with  the  Associated  Artists  of  New 
York,  and  her  skill  and  taste  are  in  constant  requisition  by  those 
who  wish  an  artist's  help  in  decorating  and  beautifying  their 
homes. 

Miss   Smith's  present   address  is  9  Walnut    St.,   Worcester. 


Sarah    Katherine    Underwood   became    an    (  )read    pupil    in 
1  >ctober,  [862,  graduating  in  June.  [864.     She  is  the  daughter 


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of  Rev.  Enoch  I).  Underwood,  whose  ancestors  early  settled 
in  Maryland  and  Virginia.  Her  mother,  whose  maiden  name 
was   Harriet    Flint   Denny,   is   a   native  of   Leicester,   Mass.,  a 

descendant  of  the  Dennys  and  Hen- 
shaws,  old  and  well-known  families 
of  Worcester  County.  Miss  Under- 
wood  was  horn  April  13,  1843,  at 
Wauwatosa,  Wis.  She  is  allied  to 
very  many  of  the  oldest  and  most 
respected  families  of  Xew  England, 
some  of  whom  were  descendants  of 
John  Alden,  while  others  served 
both  in  Colonial  and  Revolutionary 
Wars. 

In  1870  she  was  married  to  Mr. 
Charles  E.  Curtis  of  New  York,  the 
marriage  taking  place  at  Wauwa- 
tosa. Wis.  Mrs.  Curtis  has  been  a  resident  of  three  states, 
Wisconsin,  Michigan  and  Minnesota,  and  has  traveled  both 
in  America  and  in  Europe.  For  about  twenty-five  years  she 
was  engaged  in  teaching,  being  a 
teacher  in  a  high  school  fourteen 
years.  She  is  actively  interested  in 
woman's  clubs  and  in  school,  chari- 
table and  mission  work,  both  at 
home  and  abroad.  Having  traveled 
extensively,  she  often  gives  papers 
before  clubs  and  .societies  on  travel 
and  kindred  subjects. 

She  is  a  member  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  and  is 
also  eligible  to  both  the  Mayflower 
and  Colonial  Dames  Societies.  She 
has     one     son,     Frederick     William 

Curtis,  horn  November  7.  1871.  at  Fruitport,  Mich.  He 
was  educated  as  a  mechanical  engineer,  and  is  employed 
as  Division  Superintendent  on  the  "Soo"  Railway,  lie  is 
unmarried. 

Address:    Mrs.  Sarah  K.  Curtis,  1678  Hennepin  Ave.,  Minne- 
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NON-GRADUATES 

Loura  F.  Ainsworth  entered  the  Oread  from  Barre,  Mass., 
in  i860,  and  remained  there  two  years.  She  has  lived  a  quiet 
life  since  then  in  her  native  town. 

Address :    Barre,  Mass. 

Clara  F.  Allen  was  born  in  Worcester,  April  29,  1847.  Her 
father,  Josiah  Waite  Allen,  was  seventh  in  descent  from  Walter 
Allen  of  Newbury,  who  emigrated  from  England  in  1640.  He 
was  a  mason,  and  died  in  Worcester,  August  18,  1870.  Her 
mother  was  Nancy  Blinds,  a  descendant  of  the  emigrant  James 
Hinds,  who  came  from  England  to  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1637.  She 
died  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  September  18,  1897.  Miss  Allen's 
ancestors  were  pioneer  settlers  of  the  towns  of  Barre  and  Hub- 
bardston,  Mass. 

She  attended  the  Oread  in  1863-65,  and  was  married  at 
Worcester,  March  28,  1867,  to  Rev.  Lucius  Manlius  Sargent, 
a  I laptist  clergyman  of  Worcester  and  North  Grafton.  They 
had  five  children:  Lucius  Walter,  born  May  7,  1868,  is  a 
graduate  of  Worcester  Academy  in  the  class  of  1885,  and  is 
now  Massachusetts  State  Supervisor  of  Drawing;  George 
Allen,  born  December  6,  1871,  is  also  a  graduate  of  Worcester 
Academy  (1895),  and  is  at  present  employed  by  the  Callahan 
Supply  Co.  of  Worcester ;  Fred  Augustus,  who  was  born  in 
1874.  died  the  next  year;  Edith  Clara,  born  July  13,  1879,  is 
attending  the  State  Normal  School  at  North  Adams;  Nelson 
Warren,  born  September  23.  1880,  is  employed  at  the  N.  Y., 
\.  II.  &  II.  freight  offices  in  Worcester.  The  first  three  were 
born  in   Worcester,  the  others  in  North  Grafton. 

.Mrs.  Sargent  died  in  North  Grafton,  October  29,  1886. 

Emma  Edith  Andrews  was  born  in  Boylston,  Mass.,  March 
13.  [846.  I  ler  father  was  Willard  Andrews  and  her  mother 
Dolly  Houghton,  both  descendants  of  early  settlers  from  Eng- 
land. She  was  at  the  <  )read  from  February  till  December  of 
the  year   [864.      She  passed  a  (|iiiet  life  at  home  until  her  mar- 


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riage  at   Boylston,  May  4,   1886,  to  John  A.  Ware,  a  farmer. 
In    1889   they   went   West,    where    Mr.    Ware   was   engaged   in 
mining  and  in  the  real  estate  business.     He  died  June  2,  1898. 
Address:    Mrs.  Emma  E.  Ware,  Seattle,  Wash. 

Clara  Amelia  Baldwin  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  Sep- 
tember, 1861,  to  June,  1862.  She  was  born  July  20,  1845,  m 
Nashua,  N.  H.     Her  father.  Josephus  Baldwin,  was  a  success- 


ful manufacturer  of  bobbins  and  shuttles,  and  a  distant  relative 
of  Loammi  Baldwin,  the  famous  civil  engineer,  from  whom  the 
Baldwin  apple  was  named.  Her  mother,  Nancy  Blanchard, 
was  the  daughter  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

Miss  Baldwin  was  married  in  Nashua,  N.  H.,  September  13, 
1864,  to  Roger  W.  Porter,  a  commercial  traveler.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Porter  have  had  four  children,  all  born  in  Nashua :  Clara 
Grace,  born  October  15,  1865,  died  June  21,  1866;  Pauline 
Elizabeth,  born  February  24,  1867;  Edwin,  born  in  April,  1869, 
died  in  June,  1869;  Annie  Baldwin,  born  August  23,  1872. 
Pauline  was  married  to  Edwin  S.  Bigelow  of  Lowell  on  Septem- 
ber 21,  1892. 

Address:  Mrs.  Roger  W.  Porter,  50  East  Pearl  St.,  Nashua, 
N.  H. 


Kate  Barry  was  the  daughter  of  Amasa  Stetson  and  Cath- 
erine (Riley)  Barry.  Her  father  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass., 
March  23,    182 1.  and   was  the  son  of  William  and  Esther  S. 


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Barry.     Her  mother  was  born   in   Middletown,   Conn.,   March 
12,  1826,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Calvin  and  Eunice  M.  Riley. 
The  Barrys  were  Norman — not  Celtic — having  come  from  Nor- 
mandy  to    England    with    William 
the  Conqueror,  and  in  Ireland  go 
back  to  1 184,  when  Philip  Barry, 
a  brave  commander,  was  sent  from 
England  to  Ireland  by  King  Henry, 
accompanied  by  his  brother  Gerald, 
distinguished    as    the    great    histo- 
rian of  Ireland,  to  whom  was  en- 
trusted the  education  of  the  King's 
son,    John,    to    prepare    the    latter 
for    the    government    of    Ireland. 
Her  father  was  also  a  descendant 
of    Charles    Barry,    who    came    to 
America    from    Ireland,    settled   in 
Virginia  and  then  moved  to   Boston.      His  ancestry,  both   in 
England  and  Ireland,  embraces  many  distinguished  and  illus- 
trious personages.     Kate  Barry's  mother's  ancestry  goes  back  to 
Richard  Montague  Riley,  son  of  Peter  and  Eleanor  (Montague) 
Riley,  who  was  born  about  16 14,  and  settled  in  Wethersfield, 
Conn.,  in   165 1.     Among  his  descendants  in  America  may  be 
numbered  many  persons  of  note  and 
prominence. 

Kate  Barry  was  born  September 
1,  1845,  at  Alton,  111.  She  attended 
the  Oread  in  the  year  1862-63. 
She  was  married  at  Alton,  111.,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1866,  to  William  Liaker  Gil- 
bert, a  lawyer  of  Cairo,  111.  Her 
husband  is  one  of  the  leading  and 
best  known  attorneys  of  southern 
Illinois.  Pie  was  for  seventeen  years 
Corporation  Counsel  of  the  city  of 
Cairo,  for  thirty-seven  years  attor- 
ney for  the  Illinois  Central  R.  R.  and 

the  City  National  Bank  of  Cairo,  and  still  lias  a  large  practice. 
He  was  born  at  Kaskaskia,  111.,  September  24,  1837,  received  a 
classical  education,  and  is  a  graduate  of  the  Harvard  Law 
School  in  the  class  of  i860,  with  the  degrees  of  A.M.  and  LL.B. 


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They  have  three  sons:  Miles  Safford,  born  September  2, 
1868,  married  Helen  E.  Judson,  October  4,  1899;  William 
Candee,  born  January  7,  1870,  married  Ethel  T.  Ogden,  October 
8,  1902;  and  Barry,  born  May  16,  1876,  married  May  R.  Peter- 
son, October  15,  1901.  All  three  sons  are  practicing  lawyers, 
and  have  had  a  classical  education.  The  two  eldest  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and 
the  youngest  is  a  graduate  in  Law  of  Northwestern  University. 

Mrs.  Gilbert  has  for  many  years  been  a  member  of  the 
Woman's  Club  and  the  Library  Association  of  Cairo,  111.,  is 
Vice  President  of  the  Children's  Home  and  is  a  prominent  and 
influential  worker  as  a  member  and  officer  in  the  Church  Guild 
of  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer  at  Cairo. 

She  has  written  and  delivered  several  papers  before  the 
uoman's  Club,  but  charitable  and  domestic  work  has  princi- 
pally engaged  her  attention. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  15.  Gilbert,  2800  Washington  Ave., 
Cairo,  111. 

Mary  B.  Blake,  who  was  at  the  Oread  in  1863-64,  was  the 
daughter  of  Asa  and  Harriet  (Harding)  Blake.     She  was  born 


April  12,  1839,  in  Norfolk,  Mass.,  and  her  home  is  now  in  Nor- 
wood, Mass. 

Mary  was  a  day  scholar  at  the  Oread,  and  boarded  in  Wor- 
cester with  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Harding.  Sarah  Bosworth  lived  at 
the  same  house,  and  the  two  srirls  attended  the  Oread  together. 


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For  the  past  years  she  has  had  a  pleasant  home  with  her 
invalid  sister,  and  her  life  has  been  a  quiet  but  useful  one,  spent 
in  caring-  for  her  sister  and  other  members  of  her   family. 

Address:    Norwood,  Mass. 

Sarah  L.  Bosworth  was  born  in  Medford,  Mass.,  December 
31,  1844.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  G.  W.  Bosworth,  D.D., 
and  his  wife,  Louisa  M.  Messinger.  She  attended  the  Oread 
as  a  day  pupil  a  short  time  in  1863.  At  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in 
1869,  she  was  married  to  James  C.  Stuart,  a  merchant,  and 
has  until  recently  lived  in  Lawrence.  She  has  three  sons  and 
one  daughter.     All  except  one  son  are  married. 

Address :    Mrs.  James  C.  Stuart,  Melrose  Highlands,  Mass. 

Mary  Frances  Boyce  entered  the  Oread  from  Providence, 
R.  I.,  at  the  opening  of  the  school  year  in  September,  1862,  and 
remained  two  years,  leaving  in  June,  1864. 

She  was  born  in  Providence  on  January  24,  1846.  Her  father 
was  James  Boyce,  and  the  maiden  name  of  her  mother  was 
Albina  Smith. 

After  leaving  the  Oread,  Mary  taught  a  year  or  more  in  a 
private  school,  and  was  in  kindergarten  work  for  one  year. 
Except  for  these  years  of  teaching  her  life  until  her  marriage 
was  uneventful.  She  was  married  in  September,  1875,  m 
Providence,  R.  I.,  to  William  Henry  Hobson.  Air.  Hobson  had 
one  child,  Emma,  by  a  former  marriage,  who  was  eight  years 
old  at  the  time  of  her  father's  second  marriage,  and  who  has 
been  a  most  devoted  and  loyal  daughter  to  her  second  mother. 

Mrs.  Hobson  has  had  five  children  of  her  own :  William 
Henry,  born  June  18,  1876;  Ethel  Boyce,  born  August  22, 
1878;  Louise  Boyce,  born  February  16,  1881  ;  Albert  Francis, 
born  May  8,  1883  :  and  Henry  Ramsden,  born  June  27,  1885. 
Of  these  only  two  are  now  living.  The  two  eldest  children, 
William  and  Ethel,  both  died  on  January  1,  1881.  and  Albert 
Francis  died  January  21/,  1884.  Louise  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Providence  Normal  School  in  the  class  of  1902,  and  Henry  is 
now  a  student  at  Brown  University. 

She  writes,  "My  personal  history  has  been  as  happy  a  one 
as  a  true  and  loval  husband  and   loving  children  could  make 


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it.  and  though  there  have  been  necessarily  many  anxious  and 
even  sad  hours,  the  bright  ones  far  outnumber  them." 

Mrs.  Hobson  has  given  her  willing  help  to  charitable  work  as 
opportunity  has  come  to  her. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  H.  Hobson.  72  Kenyon  St.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. 

Fannie  A.  Boyd  was  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Gove 
(  Bemis)  Boyd.  To  quote  from  the  Boyd  Genealogy,  "The 
ancient  family  of  Boyds  descended  from  a  younger  son  of  the 
illustrious  Lord  High  Steward  of  Scotland.  Robert,  second 
Lord  High  Steward,  was  of  a  very  fair  complexion  and  conse- 
quently was  named  Boyt  or  'Boyd,'  signifying  fair.  From  this 
Robert  all  the  Boyds  of  Scotland  descended."  Fannie's  grand- 
father. Robert  Boyd,  owned  the  farm  in  Antrim,  X.  H.,  now 
the  home  of  ex-Governor  Goodell  of  Xew  Hampshire.  This 
was  her  father's  boyhood  home.  The  Bemis  family  is  of 
French  descent.  Her  mother's  immediate  ancestors  resided  in 
Lincoln  and  Waltham,  Mass.,  for  many  years. 

Fannie  was  born  in  Boston  in  1839,  and  entered  the  Oread 
in  September,  1859.  Her  fine  scholarship  and  pleasant  manners 
gave  her  at  once  a  high  place  in  the  esteem  of  both  teachers 
and  schoolmates.  In  i860,  while  at  the  Oread,  a  sudden  physi- 
cal disability  came  upon  her  and  prevented  her  finishing  the 
regular  course.  It  left  her  in  a  weakened  condition.  After- 
wards her  only  sister  grew  ill  and  was  a  helpless  invalid  for 
two  years  before  her  death,  and  for  years  her  father  and  foster- 
mother  (an  aunt  1  were  semi-invalids  and  remained  so  up  to 
the  time  of  their  decease.  Her  duties  as  nurse  for  these  invalids 
caused  her  health  to  suffer  and  made  her  subsequent  comfort 
dependent  upon  a  quiet  home  life.  Thus  she  has  been  debarred 
from  active  outside  effort,  but  has  never  been  useless,  and  is 
still  "a  member  in  particular"  of  the  great  whole. 
Address:    108  Prospect  St..  Somerville,  Mass. 

Olive  Clark  was  born  at  Waltham.  Mass..  August  28,  1848. 
the  daughter  of  Eben  and  Margaret  (Cheney)  Clark,  and  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1863-64.  She  was  married  at  Belmont, 
April  2,  1870.  to  L.  G.  Brainard.  an  attorney  at  law.  They 
had  two  sons.  Amos  La  Gu.  born  at  Chicago.  March  19.  1871, 


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who  died  in  Belmont,  Mass.,  June  17,  1899,  and  Chester  Nathan, 
born  in  Boston,  July  20,  1873,  who  lives  in  Boston.     The  son- 
were  educated  in  Chicago  and  Boston  schools. 
Mrs.  Brainard  now  lives  at  Valkaria,  Fla. 

Hattie  Clifford,  daughter  of  Warner  and  Lorinda  (Hartwell) 

Clifford,  was  born  in  Barre,  Mass., 
March    18,    1848.      Several    of    her 
ancestors  were  officers  in  the  War 
of  the  Revolution,  and  her  mother 
was    a    direct    descendant    of    John 
Rowland.     Hattie  was  at  the  Oread 
from  1861  to  1865.      After  leaving 
the    Oread    she    attended    school    at 
Englewood,    X.    J.,    for    one    year. 
She    was    married    November     10, 
1869,    in    Worcester    to    Julius    O. 
Murdock,    and    has    two    children. 
Lester  B.,  born  November  18,  1873, 
in  Leicester,  Mass.,  graduated  from 
Harvard   in    1896,   and   is   a   broker 
in  Providence,  R.  I.     He  was  mar- 
ried to  Alice  M.  Aldrich  on  Novem- 
ber 7,  1900,  in  Providence,  and  has 
one  son,  Donald  A.  Murdock,  born 
in  Leicester,  August  28,  1902. 

Mrs.  Murdock's  second  son  is 
Harold  Clifford,  who  was  born  in 
Leicester,  February  19,  1873,  grad- 
uated from  Worcester  Academy  in 
June,  1903,  and  is  now  in  Harvard. 
She  is  especially  interested  in 
the  Baldwinsville  Cottage  Hospital 
work. 

Address:    Mrs.  Julius  O.   Murdock,   Leicester,   Mass. 

Essie  Davids,  only  daughter  of  Thaddeus  and  Mary 
(Daniels)  Davids,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November 
30,  [850.  Her  first  ancestors  in  this  country  were  members 
of   the   English    nobilitv   who   came   to   the   American   colonies 


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to  escape  religious  persecution.  Many  of  her  ancestors  fought 
in  the  Revolutionary  War.  She  came  to  the  (  )read  in  October. 
[863,  from  New  Rochelle,  X.  Y.,  and  remained  until  June.  1864. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  made 
her  debut  in  society,  and  spent  four 
happy  years  at  home  with  her  ten 
brothers,  traveling  for  pleasure 
part  of  the  time.  She  has  been 
twice  married.  First  to  Apollos  G. 
Braman  of  Philadelphia,  on  August 
5.  1868,  in  New  Rochelle.  X.  Y. 
She  was  left  a  widow  in  1872  with 
one  son,  Thaddeus  Davids,  born 
August  28,  i860.  Later  Mrs. 
Braman  traveled  in  the  West  for 
several  months,  and  in  1873  went 
abroad  with  her  father.  She  re- 
mained in  Europe  until  March.  1877.  On  September  25,  1877, 
she  was  married  in  Trinity  Church.  Xew  Rochelle,  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Charles  F.  Canady.  to  W.  Edward  Piatt,  a  merchant.  Her 
son.  Thaddeus  Davids  Braman,  died  March  5.  1898. 

Mrs.  Piatt  is  an  active  worker  in  church  and  Sunday  School, 
is  a  King's  Daughter  and  a  member  of  many  charitable  organ- 
izations. She  has  done  charity 
work  among  the  factory  classes. 
She  is  a  member  of  two  clubs,  lit- 
erary and  musical,  and  has  written 
many  articles,  both  for  publication 
and  for  club  work,  among  which 
are  the  following  :  "Construction  of 
the  Winter's  Tale,  Compared  with  the 
Earlier  Comedies  of  Shakespeare," 
"Use  of  the  Chorus  in  the  Winter's 
Tale,  and  Others  of  Shakespeare's 
Plays,"  "Michael  Angelo,"  "Rem- 
brandt."     "The     Indian     Mutiny," 

"Victoria,  the  Queen."    "Lady  Macbeth  or  the  Thane's  Daugh- 
ter."   "The  Vatican  and  its  Present  Occupant,"    "The  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States."    "The  Sweet  South  Land." 
Address:    Mrs.  W.  E.  Piatt.  410  Telfair  St.,  Augusta.  Ga. 


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Belle  Davis  came  to  the  Oread  from  Great  Falls  (now 
Somersworth),  X.  H.,  in  1862.     She  died  in  1884. 

Emma  E.  Davis  was  daughter  of  Alfred  and  Chloe  (Parker) 
Davis.  Her  grandfather,  Clement  Parker,  was  a  Congrega- 
tional minister  in  Maine.  She  was  born  in  Somersworth,  N.  H., 
June  16,  1843,  entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  1859,  and  left 
in  1 861. 

She  was  married  in  Worcester,  June  16,  1863,  to  Jacob 
Childs,  D.D.S.,  and  has  led  a  quiet  domestic  life.  Her  son, 
Bertram  Davis  Childs,  was  born  March  2,  1870.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  the  public  schools  of  Newton,  and  of  the  Waltham 
Horological  School,  and  was  married  in  1896. 

Address:  Mrs.  Jacob  Childs,  391  Lexington  St.,  Auburndale, 
Mass. 

Annie  Louise  Depew  attended  the  Oread  in  1860-62.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Yashti  Susan  (Cole) 
Depew  of  Peekskill,  X.  Y.,  where  Annie  was  born  August  4, 

1843.  Jn  this  town  her  early  life 
was  spent,  and  here  on  Novem- 
ber 2^,  1864,  she  was  married  to 
Henry  Thomas  Worster,  who  was 
engaged  in  the  iron  business  in 
Peekskill.  After  residing  in  this 
place  some  years  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Worster  moved  to  Baltimore,  Md., 
and  later  removed  to  Paterson, 
N.  J.,  where,  after  a  lingering  and 
painful  illness,  borne  with  wonder- 
ful patience  and  sweetness,  Mrs. 
Worster  passed  away  on  Sunday 
morning,  February  3,  1895.  All 
that  medical  skill  and  fond  nursing  could  do  was  done  without 
avail.  This  beloved  wife  and  devoted  mother,  this  bright, 
lovely  and  lovable  woman  had  finished  her  earthly  work  and 
was  called  to  her  reward.  Those  who  were  at  the  Oread  with 
\niiH'  remember  her  as  tall  and  graceful,  with  a  beauty  of  mind 
and  character  as  well  as  of  face  and  form.  Tier  kind  acts  and 
loving  words  always  fitly  and  sweetly  Spoken  will  never  be  for- 
srotten. 


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Mrs.  Worster  left  two  daughters,  Annie  A.,  born  in  Peeks- 
kill,  and  Susie  A.,  born  in  Baltimore.  Their  home  is  with  their 
father.  .Mr.  Henry  T.  Worster,  725  East  27th  St..  Paterson, 
X.  J. 

Vashti  Susie  Depew,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1860-62, 
was  a  sister  of  Annie  Louise  Depew,  and  was  born  in  Peeks- 
kill.  X.  V..  where  she  spent  her  early  years.     Later,  on  account 

of  Air.  Depew's  health  the  family 
moved  to  Baltimore.  Aid.,  and  there 
on  Xovember  24,  1875,  Susie  was 
married  to  Charles  Worth  Folger, 
son  of  Judge  Charles  James  Folger 
of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  Albany, 
X.  Y.,  and  Secretary  of  the  Treas- 
ury under  President  Chester  A. 
fi  Arthur. 

Charles   Worth  Folger  was  edu- 
cated  at   Peekskill    Military    School 
and  at  Williams  College,  where  he 
was  graduated  with  honors  in  1868. 
After  their  marriage  Air.  and  Airs. 
Folger  resided  some  years  in  Geneva,  N.  Y.      Owing  to  Air. 
Folger's   ill  health  they  traveled  for  a   few  years.      Later  he 
accepted  the  position  of  purchasing 
clerk  in  the   Bureau   of   Engraving 
and  Printing  in  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
he  died  while  in  office,  January   11,  |M 


a 


[885.  After  his  death  Airs.  Folger 
built  a  cottage  in  Geneva  on  the 
Lake  road,  just  beyond  Hobart  Col- 
lege', where  she  has  since  lived.  I 

She  has  had  six  children :  Alira- 
bel  Depew.  burn  in  Geneva,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1876,  was  married  to  Orlo  J. 
I  [amlin  at  Smethport,  Penn.,  on 
January  4.  1899,  and  has  one  daugh- 
ter. Alirabel  AI.,  born  September  6,  1901  ;  Charles  James,  born 
in  Geneva,  August  5,  1877,  was  educated  at  St.  Alark's  School, 
Southboro.  Alass.,  and  at  Hobart  College ;  Thomas  Worth,  born 


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in  Geneva,  September  29,  1878,  was  educated  at  St.  John's  Mili- 
tary School,  Delafield,  Wise,  and  at  Hobart  and  Cornell  Col- 
leges; Ethel  Louise,  born  in  Geneva,  March  10,  1880,  was  edu- 
cated at  Delancey  School,  Geneva,  and  at  St.  Margaret's  School, 
Buffalo,  X.  Y. ;  Susan  Worth,  born  in  Worthington,  Minn., 
February  1,  1882,  died  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  January  24,  1884; 
Paul,  born  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  June  27,  1883,  IS  now  taking  a 
six  vears'  course  at  Cornell,  preparatory  to  the  practice  of  the 
law. 

Address:  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Folger,  862  Main  St.,  Geneva, 
N.  Y. 

Emilie  Doolittle,  who  took  graduate  study  at  the  Oread  in 
1862-63,  was  born  in  Xew  York  City,  May  28,  1842.  Her 
mother  was  Hannah  Maria  (Higbee)   Doolittle,  descendant  of 

Jonas  Higbee,  a  minute  man  in  the 
Revolutionary  War  under  Colonel 
Josiah  Smith  of  Long  Island.  Her 
father.  Dr.  Adrastus  Doolittle,  was 
a  physician  in  New  York  City  for 
r«*  «•-  forty-two   years.      He    was    a    non- 

commissioned officer  in  the  War  of 
18 1 2,  and   was  a   leading  abolition- 
ist and  philanthropist.      Her  great- 
great-grandfather,    Benjamin    Doo- 
little,  was  the  first  minister  settled 
at  Northfield,  Mass.    Besides  being  a 
minister  he  was  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon and  did  good  service  during  the  French  and  Indian  Wars. 
His  wife  was  Lydia,  granddaughter  of  Christopher  Todd,  one 
of  the  proprietors  of  New  Haven. 

Miss  Doolittle  was  married  May  3,  1869,  at  Hartford,  Conn., 
to  John  Calvin  Martin.  Mr.  Martin  is  a  miner  and  shipper  of 
semi-bituminous  coal,  owning  a  developed  coal  field  of  five 
thousand  acres  in  Pennsylvania.  Me  is  a  member  of  the  Loyal 
Legion,  and  the  originator  and  director  of  the  John  C.  Martin 
Educational  Fund  for  the  education  and  spiritual  advancement 
of  colored  ministers  ol    the  South. 

Mrs.  Martin  lias  been  a  leader  in  Primary  Sunday  School 
work,  and  has  had  charge  of  this  work  for  a  number  of  seasons 


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at  Chautauqua.  She  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  1882  of  the 
Chautauqua  Literary  and  Scientific  Circle;  President  for  three 
years  of  the  Guild  of  the  Seven  Seals;  an  associate  of  Miss 
Frances  E.  Willard  in  purity  work, 
and  a  leader  in  the  anti-Mormon 
campaign.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Woman's  Press  Associa- 
tion, of  the  New  York  City  Woman's 
Press  Club,  and  of  the  New  York 
City  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution.  She  has 
been  superintendent  of  the  work 
for  the  promotion  of  purity  in  Lit- 
erature and  Art  in  the  National 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union  since  1891,  and  member  of 
the  Woman's  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions of  the  Presbyterian  Church  since  its  organization.  She  is 
Synodical  Secretary  of  Literature  for  the  Synod  of  New  York. 

As  incumbent  of  these  many  offices  she  has  worked  inde- 
fatigably  for  the  elevation  of  journalism  and  the  purification  of 
the  drama,  express  matter  and  the  mails.  She  has  helped  to 
secure  the  passage  of  laws  in  Congress  and  various  legislatures 
for  the  moral  protection  of  children,  has  been  a  constant  con- 
tributor to  magazines  and  newspapers,  and  as  a  public  speaker 
has  given  addresses  throughout  this  country  and  in  other  lands. 
She  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  the  International  Council  of 
Women  in  London  in  1899. 

Address:  Mrs.  John  C.  Martin,  The  Wollaston,  96th  St.  and 
Broadway.  New  York  Citv. 


Emma  Frances  Duncan,  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Try- 
phosa  (Lakin)  Duncan,  was  born  in  1845  m  North  Brookfield, 
Mass. 

She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1862-63.  On  December  24, 
[868,  she  was  married  at  North  Brookfield  to  Theodore  Cor- 
nelius Bates.  Mr.  Bates  was  for  many  years  a  successful  man- 
ufacturer in  Worcester,  but  gave  up  that  occupation  to  interest 
himself  in  Western  railroads.  He  has  taken  an  important 
part   in   political   affairs,   was    for   several   vears   Chairman   of 


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the  State  Central  Committee,  and  was  twice  elected  to  the 
State  Legislature  and  twice  to  the  State  Senate,  which  gives 
him  the  title  of  "Honorable."  He  was  a  warm  personal 
friend  of  the  late   President   McKinley. 

Their   daughter,   Tryphosa,   was 
educated  at  private  schools,  and  en- 
«•£.  tered  Radcliffe  College  with  honors 

in  the  class  of  1899.  She  has  spent 
nearly  three  years  in  Paris  study- 
ing with  the  famous  vocal  teacher, 
Mme.  Mathilde  Marchesi.  She 
iJ  made  her  debut  in  concert  at  the 

Salle  Erard  in  Paris  in  June,  1900. 
In  April  of  that  year  she  sang  at  a 
Massenet  Musicale,  when  she  sang 
one   of    Massenet's   songs,   accom- 
panied by  the  great  composer  him- 
self.    She  has  sung  in  New  York 
recently  with  great  success.      She 
was    married    in    1897    to    Francis 
Batcheller  of  Boston,  and  is  now 
living  in  that  city.     She  has  written 
considerable  poetry  which  has  re- 
ceived the  commendation  of  com- 
petent  critics.      Her  biography   is 
to  be   found  in  the  book    "Repre- 
sentative   Women    of    New    Eng- 
land,"   edited  by  Mrs.  Julia  Ward 
Howe. 

Mrs.  Bates  has  been  an  active 
worker  in  the  Worcester  Woman's 
Club,    and    is    a    member    of    the 

1 ).  A.  R.,  having  twice  represented  her  chapter  at  the  Conti- 
nental Congress  in  Washington.  She  has  spent  much  time  in 
Europe,  having  chaperoned  her  daughter  while  she  was  study- 
ing there. 

Address:  Mrs.  Theodore  C.  Bates,  20  I  larvard  St.,  Worcester. 


Catherine  Elizabeth  Dwight,  who  entered  the  Oread  in 
September,  i860,  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  May  19,  1843. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Gamaliel  Lyman  and  Catherine  Hen- 


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shaw  (Jones)  Dwight  She  was  descended  on  both  sides  from 
distinguished  New  England  families,  who  were  prominent  in 
the  early  religious,  political,  judicial  and  educational  activities 

of  the  country.  On  her  paternal 
grandfather's  side  she  is  the  seventh 
in  descent  from  John  Dwight,  who 
came  from  Dedham,  England,  in 
1634  and  settled  at  Dedham,  Mass. ; 
from  Rev.  Henry  Flint  of  Brain- 
tree,  Mass..  who  came  to  America 
in  1635,  and  whose  wife,  Margery 
Hoar,  was  a  sister  of  President 
Hoar  of  Harvard  College ;  from 
William  Partrigg  or  Partridge,  who 
removed  from  Hartford  to  Hadley 
in  1660 ;  from  John  Crow,  whose 
wife  Elizabeth  was  a  daughter  of 
William  Goodwin,  the  famous  ruling  elder  of  Hartford  and  Had- 
ley ;  and  from  Eltweed  Pomeroy,  who  is  believed  to  have  come 
to  America  in  1630  in  the  ship  Mary  and  John,  and  who  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  and  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Dorchester. 
On  her  paternal  grandmother's  side  she  is  the  seventh  in 
descent  from  Chad  Brown  of  Providence,  who  came  first  to 
Boston  in  1638,  was  settled  at  the 
Baptist  Church  in  1642,  after  Roger 
Williams,  and  was  the  progenitor  of 
the  family  so  much  distinguished  as 
the  patrons  of  Brown  University  at 
Providence  ;  from  Obadiah  Holmes, 
who  was  admitted  to  the  church  at 
Salem,  March  24,  1639,  but  after- 
wards became  a  Baptist,  was  excom- 
municated from  the  Salem  church 
ami  otherwise  punished;  from  Wil- 
liam Harris,  who  went  with  Roger 
Williams  from  Salem  in  1636,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Provi- 
dence; from  Richard  Tew  of  Xewport,  one  of  the  grantees  in 
the  royal  charter  of  1663,  ancl  who  had  married,  before  leaving 
England,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Clark  of  Hardwick  Priors, 


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Warwick  County ;  from  Zachariah  Rhodes  of  Providence,  who 
married  Joanna,  daughter  of  William  Arnold ;  from  Resolved 
Waterman  of  Providence,  son  of  Richard  Waterman  of  Salem 
and  Providence,  who  married  Mercy  Williams,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Roger  Williams  of  Providence. 

She  is  also  descended  from  the  Lyman  family  through  her 
great-great-grandmother,  Hannah  Lyman,  daughter  of  Lieuten- 
ant Benjamin  Lyman  of  Northampton,  Mass. 

Kate's  great-grandfather,  David  Howell  (Princeton  College, 
1766),  was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  one  of  the 
founders  of  Brown  University,  and  United  States  District  Judge 
of  Rhode  Island. 

Both  her  father  and  mother  died  before  she  was  twelve  years 
of  age  and  she  was  placed  under  the  guardianship  of  Hon. 
William  S.  Patten  of  Providence.  She  entered  the  Oread  in 
the  autumn  of  i860  and  remained  one  year.  Afterwards  she 
attended  the  Emma  Willard  School  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  later 
Miss  Rostan's  Boarding  School  in  New  York  City. 

On  July  2,  1864,  she  was  married  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  to 
Ebenezer  Arthur  Rockwood.  Since  1871  they  have  made  their 
home  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  Mr.  Rockwood  was  a  dealer  in 
India-rubber  goods  till  1896.  He  was  Colonel  of  the  National 
Guard  of  New  York  and  retired  with  his  commission  in  1892. 
He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  was  for  many  years 
President  of  the  Erie  County  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Animals.  Mr.  Rockwood  numbers  among  his  ances- 
tors Rev.  Daniel  Emerson,  the  first  pastor  of  Hollis,  N.  H., 
and  Hon.  Ebenezer  Hazard,  the  first  Postmaster-General  under 
the  Confederation  (1782-89).  Mrs.  Rockwood  is  a  member  of 
the  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  of  the  (  )rder  of  the  Eastern  Star. 
and  of  the  National  Society  of  Xew  England  Women. 

They  have  had  five  sons,  four  of  whom  are  living:  Arthur 
Jones,  born  March  26,  [865,  a  graduate,  in  1887,  of  the  Rensse- 
laer Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  \.  Y.,  was  married  in  1892, 
has  three  children,  and  is  Division  Engineer  for  the  western 
division  of  the  Stale  Canals;  William  Patten  was  horn  in  1867, 
and  died  in  1S70;  Charles  Frederic  was  born  September  23, 
1871,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy  ( 1804  ). 
is  married  and  is  practicing  Structural  engineering  at  Louisville, 
Ky. ;    Edward   Vermilye,  horn  in    Buffalo,   May  30,   1874,  and 


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Dwighl  Carrington,  born  also  in  Buffalo,  July  3,  1877,  are  both 
graduates  of  Cornell  University.  The  former  is  an  architect, 
and  the  latter  an  electrical  engineer. 

Address:   Mrs.  E.  A.  Rockwood,  954  Main  St.,  Buffalo,  X.  Y. 

Mary  J.  Farnum  was  born  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  September  1, 
1846,  the  daughter  of  Joseph  S.  and  Lois  N.  (Stoddard)  bar- 
fium,  and  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  1863  to  1867.  On 
(  )ctober  25,  1876.  in  Worcester,  she  was  married  to  Mr.  J.  E. 
Rockwood.  She  has  one  son,  Edward  Farnum,  born  on  Christ- 
mas day,  1882. 

Address:  Mrs.  J.  E.  Rockwood,  961  Beacon  St.,  Xewton 
Centre,     Mass. 


Rebecca  Ann  Fiske  was  born  June  15,  1843.  an(l 
the  (  )read  in  i860.  She  was  sister 
of  Sarah  Jane  Fiske,  who  attended 
the  ( )read  in  1854.  After  leaving 
the  Oread  she  taught  school  in 
Minnesota  until  compelled  to  re- 
sign on  account  of  severe  illness. 
She  returned  to  her  home  in  Graf- 
ton, Mass.,  where,  on  April  7,  1869, 
she  was  married  to  O.  J.  Davis.  She 
was  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church,  and  did  much  benevo- 
lent work.  She  died  March  1,  1877, 
leaving  two  sons:  Royal  Keith,  and 
Irving  Henry,  both  of  whom  are 
business  men. 


entered 


Lizzie  Chase  Goodwin,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Abbie 
(Earle)  Goodwin,  was  born  in  Worcester,  June  13,  1844. 

After  completing  her  course  at  the  Oread  in  1863,  she  taught 
in  the  public  schools  of  Worcester  for  ten  years.  She  was 
married  to  Isaac  C.  Roath,  teller  of  the  Worcester  Safe  Deposit 
&  Trust  Co.,  and  a  member  of  the  G.  A.  R. 

Mrs.  Roath  was  constantly  associated  with  church  and  Sun- 
day School   work  after  uniting  with  the  church  at  the  aee  of 


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fifteen.  She  was  superintendent  of  the  primary  department  of 
Grace  M.  E.  Church  in  Worcester  for  fifteen  years.  The  erec- 
tion of  St.  Luke's  Church  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  was  the  result  of 
her  personal  efforts.  She  was  engaged  a  year  in  missionary 
work  in  connection  with  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Lowell,  Mass., 
and  a  year  in  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  work  with  a  Congregational  church 
in  Xew  Haven,  Conn.  Her  services  were  constantly  in  demand 
in  Xew  England  as  a  lecturer  on  Primary  Sunday  School  work. 
Three  years  previous  to  her  death  she  was  called  to  Chicago 
by  the  State  Board  and  preached  in  thirty  counties  of  Illinois. 
She  died  in  Worcester  in  October,  1896. 

Martha  Gertrude  Greene  was  born  in  East  Greenwich,  R.  I., 
August  6,  1848,  the  daughter  of  William  Arnold  and  Martha 
Waldo  (Brown)  Greene.  Her  father  taught  French  at  the 
Oread  under  Dr.  Pattison.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Col.  Chris- 
topher Greene  of  Revolutionary  fame,  who  defeated  the  Hes- 
sians at  Redbanks,  N.  J. 

After  leaving  the  Oread,  where  she  was  a  pupil  from  1861 
to  1863,  Miss  Greene  was  a  teacher  for  two  years.  On  May 
9.  1872,  at  Hannibal,  Mo.,  she  was  married  to  William  Fred- 
erick Sherman,  a  civil  and  mechanical  engineer,  the  agent  of 
a  large  cotton  mill  and  a  mechanical  expert.  They  have  three 
children:  Alice  Louise,  born  in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  April  14, 
1874;  Charles  Greene,  born  January  3,  1878,  also  in  Fall  River; 
and  Harold  Frederick,  born  in  Melrose,  Mass.,  January  26, 
1885.  Alice  was  married  to  Albert  W.  Dimick  in  1895,  and 
has  four  daughters.  Charles  attended  Phillips  Academy,  An- 
dover,  and  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute,  and  is  now  an 
electrician  with  French  &  Hubbard  of  Boston.  Harold  is  in 
the  .Melrose  High  School. 

Mrs.  Sherman  was  a  promoter  and  is  a  director  of  the  Law- 
rence Woman's  Club,  and  was  secretary  for  seven  years  of  the 
Ladies'  Union  Charitable  Society,  an  organization  that  sus- 
tains the  Lawrence  General  Hospital  and  Children's  Home. 
She  lias  been  a  member  of  the  D.  A.  R.  since  [896,  and  has 
written  papers   for  the   Woman's  Club  of   Lawrence. 

Address:  Mrs.  William  F.  Sherman,  128  Youle  St.,  Mel- 
rose,   Mas^. 


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Lizzie  Grout,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  J.  1  Smith) 
Grout,  was  born  in  Worcester,  February  28,  1850.  She  at- 
tended the  Oread  in  the  year   [863-64.      She  was  married  to 

Hiram  S.  Adams,  and  died  in  1881.  leaving-  one  child,  who  died 
four  years  and  six  months  later. 

Isabel  Florence  Hapgood,  translator  and  author,  was  horn 
in  Boston,  November  21,  1851,  the  daughter  of  Asa  and  Lydia 
(Crossley)  Hapgood.  After  leaving  the  Oread,  where  she  was 
a  pupil  from  1863  to  1865,  she  attended  Miss  Porter's  school 
at  Farmington,  Conn.,  and  then  visited  Russia  to  study  the  lan- 
guage and  the  literature  of  the  country.  The  following  quota- 
tion tells  briefly  of  her  work :  "Miss  Hapgood  received  a  liberal 
education  and  her  talent  for  language  has  been  developed  to  a 
remarkable  degree.  She  has  utilized  her  knowledge  of  the  lead- 
ing modern  languages  in  the  translation  into  English  of  the 
works  of  standard  authors.  She  is  known  wherever  English  is 
spoken  by  her  work  in  Russian  literature.  Her  'Epic  Songs  of 
Russia'  is  a  standard  classic  and  the  only  rendering  of  those 
productions  in  English  that  has  ever  been  made.  Her  transla- 
tions from  the  Russian  include  the  works  of  Tolstoi,  Gogol, 
Verestchagin  and  many  others  of  the  highest  grade.  She  has 
written  for  various  magazines  a  number  of  valuable  articles  on 
Russian  subjects.  Her  translations  of  Victor  Hugo's  'Les 
Miserables,'  'Les  Travailleurs  de  la  Mer.'  'Notre  Dame."  and 
'L'Homme  qui  Rit,"  are  pronounced  the  standards  bv  the  critics. 
She  has  translated  many  works,  prose  and  verse,  long  and  short, 
from  the  French,  the  Spanish  and  the  Italian  languages,  with 
which  she  is  familiar.  Besides  her  work  in  translation,  she 
has  written  much  signed  and  unsigned  critical  work  for  publi- 
cations of  the  highest  order." 

Address:   Care  Houghton.  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Xew  York  City. 

Annie  Lauriston  Hartwell  entered  the  Oread  in  September, 
i860.  Her  parents,  John  Bryant  and  Harriet  (Hall)  Hartwell, 
were  residents  of  Providence.  R.  I.,  where  Annie  was  born 
March  10,  1843.  Here  she  was  married  October  25,  1865.  to 
Jeffrey  Hazard,  a  descendant  of  a  prominent  Rhode  Island 
family.  Mr.  Hazard  is  a  cotton  merchant,  a  member  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  during  the  years  1887 


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and  1888  served  as  President  of  the  Board  of  Trade.  Through 
the  Civil  War  he  was  an  officer  in  the  Union  Army,  entering 
in  October,  1861,  as  Lieutenant  in  Battery  A.  Two  years  later 
he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  in  Battery  H. 

Mrs.  Hazard  is  a  member  of  the  Gaspee  Chapter  of  the 
D.  A.  R.,  and  until  last  year  was  one  of  the  visitors  of  the  Lying- 
in  Hospital.  She  has  served  on  the  Board  of  the  Society  for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children,  but  most  of  her  chari- 


table work  has  been  done  on  independent  lines.  Her  life  has 
been  spent  in  Providence,  with  the  exception  of  trips  taken  for 
pleasure  and  health  and  several  visits  abroad. 

Seven  children  have  gladdened  their  home,  four  of  whom  are 
living:  Lauriston,  born  November  22,  1866;  Jeffrey,  born 
December  28,  1867;  John  Hartwell,  born  May  20,  1869;  Mar- 
garet Crandall,  born  April  10,  1872;  Marion,  born  August  3, 
1874;  Harriet  Hall,  born  August  11,  1877:  Anna  Rosalind, 
born  October  8,  1882.  Jeffrey,  John  and  Margaret  are  not  liv- 
ing.    Marion  is  now  Mrs.  Leland  1 1.  Littlefield  of  Central  Falls. 

Her  present  address  is:  Mrs.  Jeffrey  Hazard,  216  Hope  St., 
I  'rovidence,  R.  I. 


Hattie  S.  Horton  was  born  in  Calais,  Me.,  in  1845,  the 
'laughter  of  John  B.  and  I  Iarriet  Taft  (  Sargent  )  I  lorton.  (  )ne 
of  her  ancestors,  Paul  Dudley  Sargent,  born  in  1745.  was  an 
intimate  friend  of  Lafayette  and  helped  to  plan  the  Boston  Tea 
Tarty.       I  lis  wife  was  a  descendant  of  Governor  Joseph  Dud- 


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ley  and  Governor  John  Winthrop.  Miss  Horton's  great-grand- 
father on  her  father's  side  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  She 
is  herself  a  distant  relative  of  Admiral  Dewey. 

She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1862-63.  On  September  21, 
[892,  she  was  married  to  Jason  P.  Brown,  an  engineer  in  the 
navy  during  the  Civil  War,  who  has  now  retired  from  business. 

.Mr>.   Brown's  address  is  60  Plymouth  Road.  Maiden,  Mass. 

Mary  Pierreponte  Hoyt.  daughter  of  U.  G.  Hoyt,  a  native 
of  Xorwalk,  Conn.,  who  belonged  to  the  old  Hoyt  family  origi- 
nating in   Stamford.   Conn.,   was  born   at    South   Avon.   X.   Y. 
Her    mother,    whose    maiden    name 
was    Emma    G.    Pierpont,    and    who 
was  a  relative  of  J.   Pierpont  Mor- 
gan's  mother,   died   when    May   was 
seven  years  old. 

May  attended  the  Oread  in  1862- 
03.  and  then,  returning  to  her  home 
in  Roehester,  X.  Y..  entered  the  Liv- 
ingstone Park  Seminary,  a  private 
school  in  that  city.  She  graduated 
from  the  >eminary  and  taught  there 
for  two  years.  Afterwards  she 
taught  for  two  years  in  the  public 
schools.  Part  of  the  next  year  she  spent  in  Richmond,  Va.,  her 
father's  home  at  that  time.  Of  her  life  since  then  she  writes 
as  follows  :  "I  regained  my  health,  went  back  to  Rochester,  and 
was  very  soon  called  to  Albany  to  my  most  intimate  friend,  who 
had  le^st  her  nearest  relative  under  very  distressing  circum- 
stances. I  came  to  be  with  her  for  a  month,  but  stayed  two 
years,  when  her  husband  died  suddenly,  leaving  her  alone  in 
the  world,  and  we  lived  on  together  eighteen  years  in  a  harmony 
many  sisters  would  have  envied.  At  the  end  of  that  time  the 
home  was  broken  up.  my  friend  married  again,  and  I  came  here 
1  to  the  Albany  Hospital)  at  the  solicitation  of  the  chief  sur- 
geon to  'stay  a  month,'  and  "be  at  leisure'  if  anyone  wished  to  see 
the  place  or  ask  any  questions.  I  am  about  completing  my  sixth 
year  here  and  am  far  from  'being  at  leisure,'  as  whatever  is 
repudiated  by  anyone  else  as  'not  my  business.'  I  at  once  make 
mine.     I  have  no  official  name  and  my  position  is  rather  unique. 


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"I  have  appeared  in  print  only  a  few  times — have  two  little 
hymns  in  the  latest  edition  of  the  Church  Hymnary,  NTos.  /$() 
and  985." 

Address:    Albany  Hospital,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Margaret  A.  Joy,  daughter  of  Nathan  A.  and  Dorothy  L. 
(Johnson)  Joy,  was  born  in  Ellsworth,  Me.,  July  8,  1843. 

After  attending  the  seminary  at  Bucksport,  Ale.,  Margaret, 
in  September,  i860,  entered  the  Oread,  where  she  remained  one 
year.  On  August  10,  1862,  she  was  married  at  Ellsworth  to 
Lieutenant  William  T.  Parker,  who  was  soon  promoted  to  be 
Captain,  but  did  not  live  to  see  the  end  of  the  Civil  War.  After 
Capt.  Parker's  death  Mrs.  Parker  was  graduated  from  Ohio 
Wesleyan  Female  College  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  and  afterwards 
studied  and  taught  painting,  music  and  drawing. 

(  )n  June  23,  1878,  she  was  again  married  to  Mr.  Jesse  Camp- 
bell, an  engineer  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  She  has  been  active  in 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  having  been  an  offi- 
cer in  local  and  county  work  for  over  thirty  years,  her  depart- 
ment being  jail,  prison  and  evangelical  work.  As  one  of  a 
committee  of  three  she  compiled  and  published  an  excellent 
cook  book.  She  has  written  and  delivered  several  lectures  on 
finance,  one  "Thirty  Years  Financial  Legislation  of  the  United 
States  Congress,"  an  able  article  of  great  length.  She  has  also 
spoken  much  on  temperance  and  equal  suffrage. 

Address :    Mrs.  Jesse  Campbell,  Box  740,  Springfield,  Ohio. 

Annie  L.  Kemp,  daughter  of  Hiram  A.  and  Mary  (  Peaslee) 
Kemp  of  Whitefield,  Me.,  was  born  in  Boston,  June  22,  1843. 
The  founder  of  the  Peaslee  family  in  America  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1635.  The  Kemp  family  also  came  from  England  prior 
to  1659. 

Annie  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  i860,  and  left  at  the 
close  of  the  school  year  in  1862. 

She  was  married  February  2y,  1867,  to  George  H.  Ray  of 
Boston,  who  died  January  1,  1879.  She  has  three  sons:  Henry 
G.,  born  in  Boston,  August  23.  [869;  Franklin  A.,  born  in 
Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  August  28,  1871  ;  Edward  W.,  born  in  Bos- 
ton, January  it,  1875.  All  were  educated  in  the  Boston  and 
Winchester  public  schools.  Edward  was  married  October  11, 
[897,  and  lias  a  daughter,  born  (  )ctoBer  9,   1899. 


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Mrs.  Ray's  home  has  been  in  Winchester  since  1882.  Her 
sons  Henry  and  Franklin  live  with  their  mother,  and  Edward 
and  his  family  near  by. 


Her  great-grandfather.  Colonel  Parsons,  was  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  serving  on  General  Warren's  staff  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill,  her  husband  was  in  the  Civil  War,  and  one  of  her 
sons  in  the  Spanish  War. 

Address :  Mrs.  Annie  L.  Ray,  20  Mt.  Pleasant  St.,  Winches- 
ter, Mass. 

Celia  C.  Kemp,  daughter  of  Hiram  A.  and  Mary  (Peaslee) 


Kemp  of  Whitefield,  Me.,  was  born  in  Boston,  September  23, 
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1 84 1.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1859,  and  left  in 
June,  1 86 1. 

On  September  1,  1870,  she  was  married  to  E.  B.  Stillings  of 
Boston,  and  has  two  children  :  Charles  A.,  born  in  Boston,  April 
20,  1872;  Marie  L.,  born  in  Boston,  April  12,  1878.  Mrs.  Still- 
ings is  especially  interested  in  music  and  physical  culture  work. 

Address:  Mrs.  Celia  C.  Stillings,  20  Mt.  Pleasant  St.,  Win- 
chester, Mass. 

Helen  Kendrick,  daughter  of  Asahel  C.  and  Anne  (Hopkins) 
Kendrick,  was  born  in  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  January  4,  1843.     She 

was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1863- 
65,  and  was  married  in  1869  to 
Rossiter  Johnson,  the  well-known 
editor  and  author.  Mr.  Johnson  is 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Rochester  (1863)  and  also  holds 
the  degrees  of  Ph.D.  and  LL.D. 
He  has  been  editor  of  the  Roches- 
ter Democrat  and  of  the  Concord 
Statesman.  Since  his  removal  to 
New  York  in  1873,  he  has  been 
associate  editor  of  the  American 
Cyclopaedia,  and  of  the  Standard 
Dictionary,  editor  of  the  Annual 
Cyclopaedia  since  1883,  editor  of 
the  Authorized  History  of  the  Co- 
lumbian Exposition,  and  editor-in- 
chief  of  The  World's  Best  Books, 
and  Little  Classics.  His  published 
poems  are  to  be  found  in  the  vol- 
umes entitled  Idler  and  Poet,  Three 
Decades,  and  Morning  Lights  and 
Evening  Shadows.  In  addition  he 
has  published  a  large  number  of 
historical  works,  covering  every 
period  of  our  nation's  history. 

He    has    been    President    of    the 
New  York  Association  of  Phi  Beta 

Kappa,  of  the  Society  of  the  Genesee,  of  the  Quill  Club,  and 
of  the  Delta  Upsilon  Club,  and  has  been   I 'resident  of  the  Um- 


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versity  Extension  Society  since  1898.  He  was  for  six  years 
Secretary  of  the  Author's  Club.  He  lectures  frequently  on  sub- 
jects  connected  with  American  history. 

Mrs.  Johnson  is  herself  an  author  and  editor  of  note.  She 
was  editor  of  the  American  Woman's  Journal  in  1893-94,  and 
has  edited  The  Nutshell  Series,  Poems  and  Songs  for  Young 
People,  and  other  collections.  Her  published  works  include 
The  Roddy  Books,  Our  Familiar  Songs,  Raleigh  Westgate,  and 
Woman  and  the  Republic. 

She  originated  the  "Meridian,"  a  woman's  club,  founded  in 
1886,  and  is  an  active  member  of  the  Association  Opposed  to 
the  Extension  of  Suffrage  to  Women,  and  author  of  some  of 
its  publications. 

Mrs.  Johnson  has  had  four  children,  but  only  one  daughter  is 
now  living. 

Address :  Mrs.  Rossiter  Johnson,  care  D.  Appleton  &  Co., 
436  Fifth  Ave.,  Xew  York  City. 


Marion  Elizabeth  Lakin,  daughter  of  George  Shipley  Lakin, 
a  direct  descendant  of  James  Lakin  (1690)  of  Groton,  Mass., 
and  Nancy  F.  Hubbard,  a  direct  descendant  of  George  Hubbard 
(  1595)  of  Guilford,  Conn.,  was  born 
June    2j,    1845,    at    Paxton,    Mass. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in   Septem- 
ber, 1861,  leaving  in  October,  1863. 
Her   family   removed    from   Paxton 
to    Holden    in    1864,    and    she    was 
married   May    13,    1869,   in   Holden, 
to  Samuel  Warren,  a  tanner,  of  the 
firm  of  W".  G.  Warren's  Sons,  man- 
ufacturers of  card  leather.     He  has 
served  as   Selectman,   Assessor  and 
member  of   the   School   Committee. 

She    has    three    children :     Her- 
bert Lakin,  born  August  24,   1870; 

Arthur  Kirke,  born  December  13,  1871  ;  and  George  Water- 
man, born  December  3,  1882.  Herbert  was  a  graduate  of 
Amherst  College  in  the  class  of  1895.  He  established  the  busi- 
ness of  the  Westboro  Lnderwear  Co.  in  Westboro,  Mass..  in 
1897.  and  was  married  to  Katherine  Sweet  of  Canton,  Pa.,  in 


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1899.     He  died  of  Bright's  disease  in  Westboro,  October  24, 
Kjoi.     Arthur  graduated  from  Hinman's  Business  College  in 

Worcester  in  1890.  George  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Holden  High  School 
and  Williston  Seminary,  Easthamp- 
ton,  Mass.  He  entered  the  Wor- 
cester Polytechnic  Institute  in  Sep- 
tember, 1902. 

Airs.  Warren  has  been  interested 
in  church  and  school  work.  She  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Holden,  and  has  been 
its  Treasurer  since  1888,  has  been 
a  member  of  the  School  Board 
since  March,  1887,  and  has  been 
Secretary  of  the  Board  the  entire  period. 

Address :   Mrs.  Samuel  Warren,  Holden,  Mass. 


Lizzie  M.  Loudon,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Margaret  (Law- 
son)  Loudon,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  in  1846,  and 
came  to  Boston  when  four  years  old.  She  entered  the  Oread 
in  1863  and  remained  a  year  and  a  half.  On  April  24,  1867, 
she  was  married  to  Edward  Coverly  of  Boston,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 12,  1876,  and  on  January  11,  1888,  she  was  married  to 
William  Lumb,  a  plumber  of  Boston. 

Address:  Mrs.  Eliza  M.  Lumb,  11  Sparhawk  St..  Brighton, 
Mass. 


Sarah  McFarland  was  born  in 
Leicester,  Mass.,  January  17,  1846. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Warren 
and  Jerusha  Edwards  (White)  Mc- 
Farland and  a  sister  of  Abbie  Mc- 
Farland, an  ( )read  of  1868.  She  at- 
tended the  (  )read  in  1863  and  [864. 
On  January  1,  1867,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Henry  C.  Pyne.  She  died 
on  February  [9,  18S2,  in  Worcester, 
Mass. 


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Martha  Elizabeth  Morse,  daughter  of  Charles  Moody  and 
Elizabeth  Kendall  (Beelsford)  Morse,  was  born  in  Waterville, 
Me.  Her  father  descended  from  Anthony  Morse,  born  in 
.Marlboro,  England,  in  1596,  who  came  to  America  in  1634. 
The  grandfather  of  Charles  Moody  Morse  was  one  of  the 
minute  men  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  his  great-grand- 
father was  an  officer  in  the  Colonial  Wars. 

Mattie  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  i860,  and  remained 
as  a  student  there  for  more  than  two  years.  Soon  after  she- 
left  the  Oread  her  father  with  his  _ 
family  removed  from  Maine  and  ^fl  |^ 
settled  in  Jacksonville,  111.  For 
many  years  she  was  associated  with 
the  best  social,  literary  and  art  cir- 
cles of  Jacksonville,  a  college  town 
founded  by  Xew  Englanders  and 
the  seat  of  numerous  schools,  as 
well  as  of  the  principal  State  institu- 
tions for  the  blind,  deaf  and  dumb, 
and  the  insane.  In  this  town  she 
was  for  some  years  a  teacher  in 
the  studio  of  the  Young  Woman's 
Academy.  In  1888  her  mother  died  and  from  that  time  she 
withdrew  largely  from  social  life  and  devoted  all  her  time  to  the 
companionship  and  care  of  her  father.  Some  years  later  she 
and  her  father  removed  to  Philadelphia,  and  in  that  city  in 
March,  1902,  her  father  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-one. 
(  )n  January  24,  1903,  his  devoted  daughter  Martha  passed 
away.  An  unfinished  flower  study  on  the  easel,  a  bit  of  deli- 
cate sewing  in  her  work  basket  and  a  book  with  its  marker 
where  she  laid  it  down,  each  spoke  pathetically  of  the  one 
whose  pathway  had  led  to  the  Celestial  Gates. 

She  was  a  woman  of  exceptional  natural  gifts  and  of  rare 
cultivation.  Her  work  in  pencil,  pastel,  water  colors  and  oil, 
as  well  as  in  china  painting  and  wood  carving,  was  charac- 
terized by  refinement  of  taste  and  grace  of  execution. 


Annie  Newcomb,  who  left  the  Oread  in  the  winter  of  1862.. 
was  born   in  Easton,   Mass.,  July  24,   1845.     $ne  was  a  sister 


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of  Otis  C.  Newcomb,  Instructor  in  Mathematics  and  Science 
at  the  Oread. 

In  1868,  at  Attleboro,  Mass.,  she  was  married  to  Everett  B. 


Bliss,  a  business  man,  now  retired.     They  have  two  children: 
Mil  ford  E.,  born  July  7,   1869,  and  Edward  N.,  born  May  2, 
1875,  and  there  is  one  grandchild,  Donald  Hesses  Bliss. 
Address:    Mrs.  E.  B.  Bliss,  17  Peck  St.,  Attleboro,  Mass. 

Alice  W.  Paine,  who  was  at  the  Oread  from  1862  to  1865, 
was  born  in  Worcester,  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Hannah 
(Kingsbury)  Paine.  She  was  married  to  James  C.  Davis,  a 
lawyer,  and  has  two  daughters,  Ellen  H.  and  Alice  Paine. 

Address:  Mrs.  James  C.  Davis,  Forest  Hills  St.,  Jamaica 
Plains,  Mass. 


Elisabeth  Boutelle  Philbrick,  daughter  of  John  White  and 
Julia  Shepherd  (Moore)  Philbrick,  was  born  October  22,  1844, 
in  Taycheedah,  Wise,  a  Dutch  Indian  hamlet.  Her  paternal 
ancestors  were  English  and  her  grandfather's  home  was  in 
Exeter,  N.  H.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Herbert  Moore, 
whose  ancestors  were  of  Lowell,  Mass. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  i860,  and  left  on  account 
of  ill  health  during  the  holidays  of  1861-62.  In  the  spring 
of  [863  she  entered  Codman  Mill  School  at  Dorchester,  and 
remained  till  July,   1864. 


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(  hi  August  19,  1866,  she  was  married  to  John  Barton  Foster, 
who  had  been  editor  of  Zion's  Advocate,  and  was  then  Profes- 
sor of  Greek  and  Latin  in  Colby  College.  In  1876  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  his  Alma  Mater,  and  in  1894  he 
was  elected  first  Professor  Emeritus.  He  died  August  19,  1897. 
His  first  wife  left  one  son,  John  Marshall  Foster,  who  has  been 


to  Mrs.  Foster  all  that  an  own  son  could  have  been.  He  is 
now  a  missionary  in  China.  His  home  in  America  is  at  Bur- 
ton. Vashon  Islands.  Wash.     He  has  six  children. 

Mrs.  Foster  has  always  been  interested  in  all  movements  for 
the  betterment  of  the  world  through  home  and  foreign  missions. 
She  is  a  member  of  woman's  clubs  and  a  W.  C.  T.  U.  sympa- 
thizer, though  not  an  active  worker. 

Address:  Mrs.  Elisabeth  B.  Foster,  216  Main  St.,  Water- 
ville.  Me. 


Laura  Maxwell  Porter,  daughter  of  Edward  Jarvis  and  Ruth 
(Gardner)  Porter,  was  born  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  September  24, 
1839.  Her  parents  were  married  in  1819  and  Laura  was  the 
youngest  of  nine  children.  Her  grandfather.  Perez  Gardner, 
was  in  the  Revolutionary  War  for  seven  years,  and  was  in  Xew 
York  with  Washington  when  the  army  was  disbanded  at 
the  close  of  the  war.  Her  father  was  in  the  War  of  1812  and 
was  stationed  at  Fort  Warren  in  Boston  harbor  for  some 
months.  He  was  afterwards  a  privateersman  and  was  taken 
prisoner  and  sent  to  Dartmoor  prison.  His  ancestry  in  America 
dates  back  to  1635.  from  Richard  Porter  of  England. 


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Laura  was  graduated  from  the  Boston  High  School  and 
taught  six  years  in  the  Phillips  School,  Boston,  hefore  enter- 
ing the  Oread  in  i860.  After  one 
year  she  returned  to  the  same  school, 
where  she  remained  till  she  re- 
signed to  take  a  medical  course  in 
the  New  York  Homeopathic  Col- 
lege and  Hospital  for  Women,  from 
which  she  was  graduated  in  1878. 
She  immediately  commenced  prac- 
tice in  Boston,  continuing  till  her 
death,  May  2,  1899. 

She  was  a  member  of  several  med- 
ical societies  and  served  in  numerous 
hospitals   at   various   times,   besides 
doing  a  great  deal  of  charity  and 
dispensary  work.     She  lectured  three  years  at  the  Lasell  Young 
Woman's  Seminary,  Auburndale,  Mass. 


Emma  Prescott,  daughter  of  Henry  Allen  and  Delia  Anna 
(Graves)  Prescott,  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  May  23,  1845. 
Her  father  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  First  Rhode  Island  Resri- 


^■b 


ment  in  the  Civil  War  and  was  killed  in  the  first  battle  of 
Bull  Run,  July  21,  1861.  He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  John 
and  Mary  (Platts)  Prescott,  who  came  from  Lancaster,  Eng- 
land, and  settled  in   Boston  in   [640. 


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She  attended  the  Oread  in  1862-63,  and  was  married  in  St. 
John's  Church,  Lowell,  Mass.,  May  2,  1867,  to  Charles  Willis 
Eaton,  a  hanker  and  broker.  They  have  three  children:  Willis 
Prescott,  born  in  Lowell,  May  16.  1868,  and  married  in  St. 
Anne's  Church,  Lowell,  to  Laura  E.  Stoddard.  July  20,  1892; 
Grace  Elizabeth,  born  in  Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  November  2,  1871, 
a  missionary  in  Central  America  ;  and  Florence,  born  in  Lowell, 
November  13,  1873,  and  married  in  St.  Anne's  Church,  Lowell, 
September  12,  1899,  to  Arthur  Andrew  Wright. 

Address:  Mrs.  Charles  Willis  Eaton,  108  Myrtle  St.,  Lowell. 
Mass. 

Ella  Frances  Randall,  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Eliza  (Glea- 
son)  Randall,  was  born  in  Petersham,  Mass.,  December  29, 
1843.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  September,  1863,  till  the 
winter  of  1865.  She  was  married  May  1,  1865,  soon  after  leav- 
ing the  Oread,  to  John  X.  Leonard,  a  silk  manufacturer  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  in  1893,  President  of  the  Leonard  Silk 
Company  of  Northampton,  Mass.  She  has  an  adopted  son, 
Harry  R.,  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  28,  1876.  who  studied 
at  Amherst  College,  and  is  in  business  in  New  York  City. 

Address :  Mrs.  John  N.  Leonard.  478  Elm  St.,  Northamp- 
ton, Mass. 

Lizzie  S.  Rice,  daughter  of  Asa  and  Catherine  (Davis)  Rice, 
was  born  in  West  Boylston.  Mass.,  December  29,  1847.  Her 
grandfather,  Luther  Rice,  furnished  for  the  Antiquarian  Rooms 
in  Worcester  a  gun,  which  he  carried  when  he  served  under 
General  Washington  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  She  was  at 
the  Oread  two  years  under  Dr.  Pattison,  then  taught  French, 
History  and  Algebra  in  Windsor  Academy,  Windsor,  N.  Y.  On 
July  2,  1865,  in  Rutland,  Mass.,  she  was  married  to  Charles  W. 
( iray.  who  attended  Amherst  College,  who  had  studied  medicine 
and  who  became  a  medical  cadet  in  the  U.  S.  Army  Hospital  in 
r862.  He  later  attended  Harvard  Medical  College,  and  then 
taught  for  several  years,  but  a  business  life  seemed  more  attrac- 
tive than  a  professional  one,  and  he  became  interested  in  the 
envelope  business.  He  was  President  of  the  W.  H.  Hill 
Envelope  Company  till  it  became  a  part  of  the  United  States 
Envelope  Company. 


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Mr.  and  Airs.  Gray  have  two  children:  Miriam,  a  graduate 
of  Mount  Holyoke  College,  was  married  to  Edward  S.  Eichel- 
berger.  District  Attorney  of  Maryland,  and  has  two  children ; 
Albert  studied  at  Harvard,  and  is  a  teacher  in  the  High  School 
at  Worcester.  Mrs.  Gray  has  engaged  in  philanthropic  work 
in  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  and  the  Orphans'  Home. 

Address :  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Gray,  20  Channing  St.,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 


Estelle  A.  Rogers,  daughter  of  George  S.  and  Amanda 
(Atwood)  Rogers,  was  born  in  Wales,  Mass.,  July  3,  1845. 
Her  family  was  of  good  old  New  England  stock,  her  ancestors 

being   among   the   first    to    settle    in 
western  Massachusetts.     Among  her 
ancestors   were  officers  and  soldiers 
£         ^^M  m   Dotri    Revolutionary   and   Mexican 

W-*  *■>  jB  Wars,  as  well  as  statesmen  and  poli- 

ticians. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1862  and 
left  in  1865.  She  remained  at  home 
until  her  marriage  to  David  Boyden, 
Jr.,  June  27,  1872,  at  Wales,  Mass. 
Mr.  Boyden  was  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  John  Kendall  &  Co.,  hatters 
and  furriers.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  city  government,  a  bank  director  and  Colonel  of  Massachu- 
setts Militia.  He  died  June  5,  1896.  They  had  three  children: 
Edith  R.,  born  June  2,  1873;  W.  Thane,  born  May  30,  1876; 
and  Arthur  R.,  born  July  6,  1883,  all  in  Worcester.  All  are 
well  educated.  Edith  was  married  October  10,  1899,  to  Gilbert 
R.  Holway,  and  Thane  was  married  November  9,  1900,  to 
Ethel  A.  Brooks. 

Address:  Airs.  Estelle  A.  Boyden,  57  Fruit  St..  Worcester. 
Mass. 


Mary  G.  Sawyer,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1862-63,  enter- 
ing from  Lexington.  Mo.,  died  in   February,  1869. 


Anna  M.  Seaver  was  bom  in  X'orthboro,  Mass.,  August  19, 
1844,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Abram  W.  and  Maria  (Mandell) 


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Seaver.  Her  father  was  for  many  years  President  of  the 
Northboro  Bank.  On  both  sides  of  her  family  Miss  Seaver  is 
eligible  to  membership  in  the  Society  of  the  Dames,  and  also 

of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution.  One  of  her  ancestors 
was  an  officer  in  General  Washing- 
ton's own  regiment.  Her  mother's 
great-grandfather  was  a  Brigade- 
Major,  her  grandfather,  always 
called  Major  Mandell,  an  aide-de- 
camp to  Major-General  Warren, 
and  her  father  a  Lieutenant  of 
Militia. 

Miss    Seaver   entered   the   Oread 

in  i860,  and  left  in  1865.     She  was 

a  member  of  the  class  of  1864,  but 

was  compelled  to  leave  school  about 

six  weeks  before  graduating  on  account  of  illness.     Dr.  Patti- 

son  urged  her  to  return  in  June  and 

graduate,  but  she  did  not  do  so. 

Since  leaving  the  Oread,  home 
duties  have  occupied  her  time,  to- 
gether with  church  and  other  simi- 
lar work.  She  has  visited  Europe 
three  times,  in  1880,  in  1890,  when 
she  remained  two  years,  and  in 
1894,  when  she  visited  Norway, 
Sweden  and  Denmark.  In  1889  she 
traveled  through  our  western  coun- 
try, taking  a  trip  up  the  Pacific  coast 
from  Mexico  to  Alaska. 

She  is   Corresponding  Secretary 
of   the  Oread   Collegiate   Institute   Association,   and   has   done 
remarkable   work   in   collecting   scattered   records   and   tracing 
those  whose  present  whereabouts  had  hitherto  been  unknown. 
Her  present  address  is  Xorthboro,  Mass. 


Huldah  Dorcas  Sheldon,  the  sixth  daughter  and  twelfth 
child  of  Pardon  and  Rebecca  W.  (Aborn)  Sheldon,  was  born 
in   Pawtuxet,   R.    I.,   November   20.    1845.      Her   great-grand- 


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father  Aborn  was  a  Revolutionary  privateer,  and  it  is  sup- 
posed that  her  father's  father,  when  a  boy  or  young  man,  went 
from  Pawtuxet  with  the  men  of  history  who  burned  the  Gaspee 


in  Narragansett  Bay — the  first  overt  act  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution. 

Miss  Sheldon  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  year  1861-62. 
Her  life  has  been  a  quiet  one,  and  she  has  always  lived  in 
the  home  of  her  birth. 

She  is  interested  in  historical  research,  and  has  transcribed 
the    "Early  Records  of  the  Town  of  Providence." 

Address:    2169  Broad  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Almira  Esther  Sibley,  known  at  the  Oread  as   "Etta  Sibley," 

was  at  the  school  for  one  term  in 
1862.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Elijah  and  Pamelia  (Jones)  Sibley, 
both  of  whom  were  of  English  de- 
scent, and  was  born  in  Sutton, 
Mass.,  August  7,  1843.  An  ances- 
tor, Daniel  Sibley  of  Sutton,  Mass., 
was  a  minute  man  at  the  battle  of 
Lexington. 

She    was    married    in    Worcester, 
November     10,     1868,     to     Uberto 
V  Crocker   Crosby,   now    President   of 

the  New  I  [ampshire  Fire  Insurance 
Co.  They  have  two  children:  Everett  Uberto,  born  in  Wor- 
cester, April  2,  1871,  was  prepared  for  Harvard,  but  could  not 


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attend  because  of  trouble  with  bis  eyes,  is  now  general  agent 
for  the  North  British  and  Mercantile  Fire  Insurance  Co.  in 
Xew  York  City,  is  married  and  has  two  children ;  Alice  Sibley, 
born  in  Newton,  Mass.,  June  25,  1882,  attended  the  Pelham 
Manor  School  in  New  York  after  leaving  the  Newton  schools, 
and  is  now  at  home. 

Address:    Mrs.  Uberto  C.  Crosby,   1855  Elm  St.,  Manches- 
ter, X.  H. 


Amy  A.  Simmons,  daughter  of  William  W.  and  Martha  T. 
(Earle)  Simmons,  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  July  17,  1847. 
Her  father  came  from  Rehoboth,  Mass.,  of  good  old  Puritan 
stock,  and  her  mother  was  a  descendant  of  Gregory  Dexter, 
who  settled  in  Providence  in  1(44. 

Amy  was  early  left  an  orphan.  Her  aunt,  Mrs.  Louisa  Dex- 
ter Mumford,  had  the  oversight  of  her  education  and  it  was 
under  her  care  that  she  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1859, 
and  remained  during  Dr.  Pattison's  administration.  She  fin- 
ished her  education  at  East  Greenwich  Seminary,  near  which 
Mrs.  Mumford  then  resided. 

Amy  went  abroad  once,  but  beyond  that  led  a  quiet,  unevent- 
ful life.  It  has  been  truly  said  of  her  that  wherever  her 
quiet  path  led  her  "she  went  about  doing  good."  She  was  a 
member   of   the    Central    Congregational    Church,    Providence. 

She  died  of  consumption  in  1883. 

Mary  J.  Smith,  called  at  the 
Oread  "Mollie,"  was  the  daughter 
of  Elisha  Smith  of  Pawtuxet,  R.  I., 
who  early  in  life  went  South,  and 
engaged  in  mercantile  business  in 
Georgia,  where  he  married  a  south- 
ern wife.  Mary  was  the  young- 
est of  three  children,  all  born  in 
Georgia.  Her  mother  died  when 
she  was  quite  young. 

Her  father  married  for  his  sec- 
ond wife  an  old  friend  in  Rhode 
Island,  and  when  he  died  soon 
after,  her  stepmother  returned  North,  bringing  Mary  with  her 


222  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1862,  remaining  there  two  years. 
After  the  war  she  visited  friends  and  relatives  in  the  South,  and 
later  married  Mr.  Hunter  of  Savannah,  Ga.  She  died  in  Paw- 
tuxet  at  the  home  of  her  mother  a  short  time  after  her  marriage. 
She  had  all  the  grace  and  charm  of  the  typical  Southern  woman 
of  the  old  regime. 

Frances  A.  Spink,  the  daughter  of  Nicholas  N.  and  Huldah 
A.  Spink  of  Wickford,  R.  I.,  came  to  the  Oread  as  a  boarding 
pupil  in  February,  1862,  and  remained  there  nearly  two  years. 

Her  present  address  is  Wickford,  R.  I. 

Mary  E.  Stall,  daughter  of  Samuel  Stall,  was  born  in  Taun- 
ton, Mass.,  in  1850,  and  was  at  the  Oread  four  years,  1860-64. 
Dr.  Pattison's  family  took  her  under  their  care  and  when  they 
left  the  Oread  she  went  to  Illinois  with  them  and  remained  in 
the  family  three  years,  until  they  gave  up  housekeeping.  She, 
however,  has  continued  to  live  at  Upper  Alton,  111.,  and  that  is 
her  present  address. 


Mary  Louise  Stedman  was  the  daughter  of  John  Porter  and 
Thais  Maria  (Hooker)  Stedman.  The  Stedmans  are  of  Eng- 
lish descent.  Her  mother's  ancestors,  the  Hookers  and  Wins- 
lows,  were  prominent  in  the  early 
settlement  of  Massachusetts,  the 
latter  being  directly  descended  from 
Col.  Edward  Winslow,  who  came 
over  in  the  Mayflower.  She  was 
born  in  Southbridge,  Mass.,  June 
13,  1840,  and  entered  the  Oread  in 
i860. 

She  was  married  October  7,  1869, 
to  Rev.  C.  B.  Sumner,  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  of  Mon- 
son,  Mass. 

Mr.  Sumner  is  a  graduate  of  Yale 
College  in  the  class  of  1862,  and  of 
Andover  Seminary  in  1867.     He  was  settled  at  Monson,  Mass., 
in  January,  1868,  and  remained  there  until  1879.     From  Mon- 
son   the    family    removed    to    West    Somerville,    Mass.,    where 


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Mr.  Simmer's  pastorate  continued  till  November,  1882,  when, 
because  of  the  ill  health  of  Mrs.  Sumner,  they  removed  to 
Tucson,  Ariz.     After  a  pastorate  of  two  years  here  Mr.  Sumner 

was    appointed    Home    Missionary       

Superintendent  of  Arizona  and  New 

Mexico    by    the    American    Home  |  v 

Missionary     (now     Congregational  V  *i 

Home  Missionary)  Society,  and  the 

family  removed  to  Las  Vegas,   N.  >l3y   fpfc 

Mex.     Two  years  later,  on  account  ,    . 

of   the  high   altitude,   Mr.    Sumner  m&  — ~ 

resigned  and  removed  to  California.  B^^fer-Hi 

Here    he    organized    a    church     in  .{*J  j|4 

Pomona,     [une    2,     18S7.    and    was  /  H|k 

instrumental    in    the    location    and  m  ^M  e\v 

incorporation   of    Pomona   College, 
four  miles  north  of  Pomona.     The 

town  of  Claremont  has  now  grown  up  about  the  college.  April 
i,  1888,  he  resigned  the  pastorate  of  this  church  for  college 
work.  Mr.  Sumner  has  held  various  positions  in  the  college, 
as  Business  Manager,  General  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Pro- 
fessor. 

Mrs.  Sumner  entered  most  heartily  into  the  work  of  both 
church  and  college.  One  of  the  college  buildings,  the  first  one 
for  the  young  women's  dormitory  and  boarding  department, 
was  named  for  her,  "The  Mary  L.  Sumner  Hall."  She  died 
in  Pomona,  Cal.,  July  21,  1893. 

She  had  two  children:  Helen,  born  at  Monson,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1 87 1,  a  graduate  of  Pomona  College  in  the  class  of 
1894,  and  a  graduate  student  at  the  University  of  California 
in  1897-98,  was  married  in  November,  1899,  to  Eugene  Hunt- 
ington Benson,  a  rector  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and 
has  one  daughter,  Mary  Sumner,  born  April  6,  1903  ;  George 
Stedman,  born  at  Monson,  October  24,  1874,  is  a  graduate  of 
Pomona  in  1894,  and  of  Yale  in  1895,  received  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1897,  and  is  Professor  of  History  in  Pomona. 

Florence  Thompson  was  born  in  South  Dedham.  now  Nor- 
wood, Mass.  Having  been  left  an  orphan,  she  lived  with  her 
guardian.  Rev.  J.  W.  Parkhurst,  until  1861,  when  she  entered 


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the  Oread,  where  she  remained  a  year  and  a  half.  She  then 
attended  the  Emerson  School  in  Boston,  living  at  the  home  of 
an  uncle.  Soon  after  leaving  this  school  she  spent  a  year 
abroad,  visiting  England,  Scotland,  Egypt  and  Palestine. 

In  1872  she  was  married  to  Andrew  F.  Leatherbee,  a  lumber 
dealer  of  Boston,  where  they  lived  for  several  years.  Two 
children  were  born  in  Boston:    Florence  K.  in  1873,  and  Albert 


Thompson  in  T877.  Florence  is  a  graduate  of  Wellesley  Col- 
lege and  Albert  of  the  Boston  High  School.  Both  have  spent 
some  time  abroad  in  study  and  travel.  Florence  has  taught  in 
the  Chauncey  Hall  School,  and  Albert  is  now  in  business  with 
his  father.  A  second  daughter,  Margaret  Rhodes,  was  born 
in  Newton  Centre  in  1882,  and  is  a  graduate  of  Smith  College, 
class  of  1904. 

Address:  Mrs.  Andrew  F.  Leatherbee,  908  Beacon  St.,  New- 
ton Centre.  Mass. 

Agnes  L.  Walker,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Charlotte 
(Eaton)  Walker  of  Worcester,  attended  the  Oread  from  T863 
to  [866.  She  was  married  to  Major  L.  ( i.  White  of  Wor- 
cester, a  dealer  in  coal  and  ice,  and  has  one  daughter,  Helen 
Agnes,  now  Mrs.  II.  E,  Sargent. 

Address:    Mrs.  L.  (i.  While,  47  Harvard  St..  Worcester. 


Susan  Elizabeth  Ware  attended  the  <  >read  in  1862-63.     She 
was  the  daughter  of  Albert    P.  Ware,  of  the  Ware  Pratt  Co. 


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of  Worcester,  and  the  firm  still  bears  his  name,  though  he  died 
in  1880.  Her  mother  was  Elizabeth  (Abbott)  Ware,  who  died 
in  1884.     Both  were  from  Andover,  Mass. 

Susie  was  born  in  Worcester  in  1845,  and  died  there  in  1864, 
while  still  a  school  girl. 

Mary  C.  Wheeler  was  born  in  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1846.  Her 
parents  were  A.  H.  and  Harriet  (Lincoln)  Wheeler  of  Hingham 
ancestry.  She  was  at  the  Oread  from  March  till  June,  1863. 
After  leaving  the  Oread  she  continued  the  study  of  Art  in  Paris 
and  of  German  in  Dresden.  She  founded  a  very  successful 
school  of  her  own  in  Providence,  now  in  its  fourteenth  year. 
She  delivered  a  paper  before  the  International  Congress  of 
Drawing  in  Paris  in  1900,  and  has  read  many  papers  on  Art 
before  women's  clubs. 

Address :   26  Cabot  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Jennie  Wait  Whipple  was  born  in  Williamsburg,  Mass.,  on 
November  22,  1846.  Her  parents  were  Nelson  and  Caroline 
(Warren)  Wait.  Her  mother  was  a  descendant  of  Gen.  Joseph 
Warren  of  Revolutionary  fame.  Jennie  Wait  was  adopted  as 
a  daughter  by  Franklin  and  Eliza  (Warren)  Whipple,  and  her 
name  was  changed  from  Mary  Jane  Wait  to  Jennie  Wait 
Whipple.  She  was  at  the  Oread  during  the  school  year  of 
1861-62. 

On  October  1,  1864,  she  was  married  to  Charles  Curtis 
Andrews  of  Worcester.  Mr.  Andrews  is  the  Superintendent  of 
a  boot  and  shoe  factory  in  Worcester.  They  have  had  three 
children,  all  born  in  Worcester :  Grace  Lillian,  born  March  2, 
1866;  Lucy  Eleanor,  born  May  3,  1870,  died  August  16,  1870; 
Franklin  Curtis,  born  November  17,  1871.  Grace  was  married 
to  William  L.  Sargent  on  January  I,  1895.  Franklin  was  mar- 
ried to  Lulu  Edith  Randies  on  August  17,  1893. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrews  have  always  resided  in  Worcester. 
Mrs.  Andrews  has  been  engaged  in  city  missionary  work. 

Address:    Mrs.  C.  C.  Andrews,  8  Jaques  Ave.,  Worcester. 

Miriam  Blagden  Whiton,  daughter  of  James  Morris  and 
Mary  Elizabeth  Whiton,  was  born  in  Boston.  Mass.,  December 


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12,  1848,  and  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1861.  In  1868  she 
was  married  to  Henry  B.  Opdyke  of  New  York  City,  where 
they  lived  till  1879,  removing  then  to  Plainfield,  N.  J.  She 
died  in  Switzerland,  August  31,  1902.  She  is  survived  by 
her  husband  and  their  three  children:  Henry,  born  in  1870, 
a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  class  of  1890;  Howard,  born  in  1872  ; 
and  Agnes,  born  in  1876.  She  was  especially  active  in  the 
Plainfield  Organized  Aid  Association. 

Sarah  M.  Wood  was  born  in  Somerville,  N.  J.,  December  7, 
1849,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Aurin  and  Eleanor  (Boice) 
Wood.  She  was  at  the  Oread  three  or  four  years  in  the  early 
sixties.  Her  father  was  possessed  of  remarkable  mechanical 
ability,  and  was  an  eminent  inventor.  She  was  married 
November  22,  1870.  to  Frederick  E.  Reed,  a  manufacturer  of 
machinists'  tools.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Worcester.  She  has  four  children,  all  born  in  Worcester: 
Florence,  born  in  1876;  Charles,  born  in  1878;  Alice,  born  in 
1880;  and  Margaret,  born  in  1882.  Margaret  was  married  in 
January,  1903,  to  Ernest  Bigelow  Freeman  of  Boston. 

Address :  Mrs.  Frederick  E.  Reed,  27  Germain  St.,  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 


THE   OREAD   FROM    1864  TO    1881 


THE    SHEPARDSON-PACKARD    ADMINISTRATION 

DR.  PATTISOX  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  John  Shepardson, 
then  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church  at  Petersham,  Mass., 
and  Miss  Sophia  B.  Packard,  who  had  been  Preceptress  of  the 
Connecticut  Literary  Institute  at  Suffield,  Conn.  Dr.  Shepard- 
son and  Miss  Packard  were  associated  together  as  principals, 
their  names  being  bracketed  under  that  title  in  the  catalogues. 

When  he  assumed  this  position  at  the  Oread  Mr.  Shepardson 
did  not  give  up  his  pastorate  at  Petersham,  and  spent  only  a 
part  of  each  week  in  Worcester,  usually  from  Monday  night  till 
Friday  morning.  He  had  no  classes,  but  gave  general  super- 
vision to  the  work  of  the  school  and  looked  after  its  outside 
interests,  leaving  to  Miss  Packard  the  chief  responsibility  for 
its  instruction  and  discipline.  This  charge  Miss  Packard  was 
most  competent  to  assume.  She  was  a  woman  of  powerful 
intellect  and  strong  will,  aggressive  and  energetic,  with  almost  a 
masculine  genius  for  business  and  capacity  for  leadership,  and 
in  addition  was  a  thoroughly  consecrated  and  devoted  Christian. 
In  spite  of  a  dignity  and  authoritative  manner  that  in  some 
persons  would  have  been  almost  forbidding.  Miss  Packard's 
strong  and  positive  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  made  her  a 
woman  to  inspire  deeply-felt  admiration  and  devotion,  and 
many  of  her  pupils  were  roused  through  her  influence  to  an 
eager  ambition  for  intellectual  achievement  or  to  a  life-long 
consecration  to  Christian  service. 

Dr.  Shepardson.  who  was  a  big.  hearty,  genial  man,  so  cordial 
and  kindly  that  the  affectionate  nickname  given  him  by  the 
girls,  "Father  Shepardson,"  seemed  most  fitting  and  appro- 
priate, was,  like  Miss  Packard,  deeply  interested  in  the  moral 
and  spiritual  welfare  of  the  girls,  so  that  the  whole  school 
during  this  administration  was  permeated  with  religious  interest 
and  enthusiasm. 


228  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

Miss  Packard  was  ably  assisted  in  her  duties  of  instruction 
and  discipline  by  Miss  Hattie  E.  Giles,  her  devoted  friend, 
with  whom  she  had  been  constantly  associated  in  all  that  she 
had  done  for  ten  years,  and  who  continued  to  be  her  co-worker 
till  Miss  Packard's  death.  It  would  have  been  impossible  for 
a  school  girl  of  those  days  to  speak  or  think  of  one  without 
the  other.  They  dressed  alike  and  in  leisure  hours  were  nearly 
always  together.  Miss  Giles  was  in  character  quite  unlike  Miss 
Packard,  being  most  gentle,  mild,  and  self-effacing,  but  con- 
stantly watchful  and  quietly  observant  that  everything  went 
well.  The  devotion  of  these  two,  in  disposition  and  tempera- 
ment so  totally  different,  was  a  striking  proof  of  the  truth  of 
that  verse  in  Tennyson's  In  Memoriam,  which  gives  as  the 
cause  of  perfect  sympathy  between  two  friends, — 

"But  he  was  rich  where  I  was  poor, 
And  he  supplied  my  want  the  more 
As  his  unlikeness  fitted  mine." 

Under  this  administration  an  excellent  corps  of  teachers  was 
gathered  together.  With  the  exception  of  Mr.  Seabury  W. 
Bowen,  who  had  been  one  of  Dr.  Pattison's  assistants,  all  of 
these  began  their  connection  with  the  Oread  at  the  beginning 
of  this  administration,  though  several  of  them  continued  to 
teach  at  the  school  for  many  years  after  Dr.  Shepardson  and 
Miss  Packard  left.  A  list  of  these  teachers  follows.  Their 
biographies  will  be  found  on  the  pages  indicated. 

Miss  Sophia  B.  Packard,  Meta-  Mine.    Franziska    Wilhelmine 

physics  and  Literature. ..  .p.  241  Fitch,  German p.     37 

Miss  Hattie  E.  Giles,  Ornamen-  Miss  Maria  C.  Harding,  English 

tals  and  Music p.  241  Branches p.  277 

Rev.    Joseph    Banvard,    Elocu-  Prof.  C.  C.  Stearns,  Piano,  Or- 

tion,  Natural  Sciences  and  gan  and  Musical  Composi- 

Moral  Philosophy p.  249  tion p.  265 

Mons.    J.    R.    Lamoureux,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Allen,  Vocal  Music  p.  248 

French p.  262  Miss    Helen    M.    Knowlton, 

Mr.  Seabury  W.  Bowen,   Natu-  Guitar  p.  262 

ral  Sciences p.  163  Miss  Maggie  Valentine,  Gymnas- 

Miss  Jennie  L.  Woodbury,  Latin  tics  and  Calisthenics. 

and  English  Branches. ..  .p.  272  Prof.    C.    E.    Moran,    Penman- 

Mlle.  Caroline  Guerpillon,  French  ship   p.  262 

and  Italian.  Miss  Flora  Hinds,  Registrar  ..p.  1S3 

Miss  Mary  C.  C.  Goddard,  Latin  Mrs.  Katie  Dispeau,  Matron...  p.  257 

and  Mathematics p.  260  | 


HARRIS    RAY   GREENE. 


The  Shepardson-Packard  Administration  229 

The  yearly  enrollment  of  the  school  under  the  Shepardson- 
Packard  administration,  as  indicated  by  the  catalogue  of  the 
year  1865,  was  about  one  hundred  and  twenty.  Under  these 
principals  there  were  nine  graduates,  five  in  the  class  of  1865 
and  four  in  the  class  of  1866. 

Dr.  Shepardson  was  at  the  head  of  the  Oread  for  only  two 
years,  from  1864  to  1866.  After  his  retirement  Air.  Harris 
R.  Greene  of  Worcester  took  his  place  and  was  associated  as 
principal  with  Miss  Packard  for  one  year,  1866-67.  In  this 
year  there  were  no  graduates.  The  new  names  on  the  list  of 
teachers  were  four  in  number.  Miss  Carrie  Frost  in  the  depart- 
ment of  Mathematics  (see  p.  258),  Mile.  L'Aignoux  in  French. 
Miss  Lizzie  Howe  in  Latin  (see  p.  261),  and  Mr.  Ezekiel  W. 
Dimond,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Bowen  in  the  department  of 
Natural  Sciences   (see  p.  255). 


MR.    GREENE'S   ADMINISTRATION 

In  September,  1867,  Mr.  Greene  assumed  entire  control  of 
the  school.  He  held  the  office  of  Principal  of  the  Oread  for 
the  next  twelve  years,  from  1867  to  1879,  the  longest  period 
in  its  history  during  which  it  was  under  a  single  head.  When 
he  came  to  the  Oread  he  was  already  well  known  as  a  teacher 
in  Worcester,  having  been  the  popular  principal  of  its  High 
School.  In  consequence  of  this  fact  he  drew  large  numbers  to 
the  institution,  and  in  the  year  1867  there  were  one  hundred 
and  ninety-one  enrolled  in  the  school  catalogue,  the  highest 
number  on  record  in  the  history  of  the  school. 

His  pupils  remember  Mr.  Greene  as  a  man  of  striking  appear- 
ance, of  swarthy  complexion,  and  long,  bushy,  jet-black  hair; 
his  face  expressing  a  kindly  interest,  his  manners  quiet,  but  at 
the  same  time  genial.  His  natural  instincts  were  toward  the 
life  of  the  scholar,  and  he  was  an  indefatigable  student.  Except 
when  he  had  classes  or  some  special  business  elsewhere,  he 
could  nearly  always  be  found  in  his  study,  poring  with  deep 
absorption  over  his  books.  Here  he  loved  not  only  to  read 
and  enjoy  the  best  in  the  literatures  of  all  ages,  but  also  did 
scholarly  work  in  the  line  of  original  research,  and  was  not 
only  a  student,  but  also  a  writer  of  books. 


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As  befitted  one  who  was  in  constant  communion  with  the 
royal  minds  of  all  time,  Mr.  Greene  was  a  man  of  singular  sim- 
plicity and  purity  of  character.  He  was  inclined  to  a  kindly 
leniency  in  the  smaller  matters  of  discipline,  but  was  firm  and 
decided  against  all  that  was  really  false  or  wrong.  His  own 
uprightness  and  love  for  all  that  was  "lovely  and  of  good 
report"  made  his  influence  positive  and  powerful  in  leading  his 
pupils  to  love  and  strive  to  attain  to  a  worthy  Christian  char- 
acter. He  was  entirely  consecrated  to  his  work  as  a  teacher, 
and  believed  that  occupation  to  be  as  sacred  a  calling  as  the 
ministry,  his  main  object  being  not  only  to  teach  the  necessary 
facts,  but  through  them  to  impart  a  love  and  enthusiasm  for 
things  of  greater  value.  Some  of  his  pupils  still  remember  dis- 
tinctly one  evening  when  he  took  his  astronomy  class  out  under 
the  stars  to  point  out  to  them  the  various  constellations,  and 
how  before  doing  so  he  gave  them  a  little  talk  on  the  beauty 
of  the  heavens  at  night  and  the  goodness  of  God  in  making 
nature  so  beautiful  for  the  help  and  comfort  of  man.  Though 
the  names  of  many  of  the  constellations  have  been  for  years 
forgotten,  this  little  talk  has  lingered  long  in  the  memories  of 
the  girls  to  whom  he  spoke. 

Although  in  social  life  Mr.  Greene  was  a  quiet  man,  and, 
when  he  was  absorbed  in  his  work  even  inclined  to  absent- 
mindedness  (his  weakness  in  this  line  being  a  constant  source 
of  good-natured  joking  in  which  he  joined  as  heartily  as  any- 
one), in  the  class-room  he  became  roused  and  by  his  own  enthu- 
siasm and  eagerness  in  the  pursuit  of  knowledge  he  inspired 
the  same  feelings  in  his  pupils.  He  had  charge  of  two  depart- 
ments, Ancient  Languages  and  English  Language  and  Litera- 
ture, but  the  latter  was  his  specialty,  and  the  one  in  which  both 
he  and  his  pupils  took  special  delight.  In  the  history  and  devel- 
opment of  the  English  language  and  in  comparative  philology 
he  was  a  thorough  scholar,  and  his  unusual  knowledge  of 
these  subjects,  added  to  his  unusual  gifts  as  a  teacher,  made 
lessons  in  grammar  and  the  analysis  of  the  English  language, 
ordinarily  dull  and  dry,  teem  with  interest  and  life.  But  the 
one  class  which  stands  out  vividly  above  all  others  in  the 
memory  of  his  pupils  was  the  one  popularly  called  "  The  Poets," 
in  which  the  works  of  the  great  English  writers  of  verse  were 
studied.     Contrary  to  the  usual   practice  in  many  schools  and 


Mr.   Greene's  Administration  231 

colleges  in  those  days,  he  did  not  give  his  pupils  hooks  about 
the  great  poets — Shakespeare,  Milton  and  others — but  intro- 
duced them  directly  to  their  works.  He  had  a  wonderful  way 
of  so  presenting  a  subject  that  the  important  points  were  indeli- 
bly impressed  on  the  memory  of  his  hearers.  His  method  was 
half  lecture,  half  recitation.  He  gave  his  pupils  a  great  deal 
of  himself,  and  at  the  same  time  demanded  a  great  deal  of 
them.  Among  other  things  he  insisted  on  their  committing  to 
memory  a  large  number  of  beautiful  passages,  a  requirement 
which  has  since  proved  to  his  pupils  a  source  of  profit  and 
pleasure.  One  of  them,  for  many  years  a  teacher  of  literature, 
writes  as  follows, — and  she  echoes,  I  am  sure,  the  feeling  of 
all  who  had  the  pleasure  of  coming  under  Mr.  Greene's  instruc- 
tion,— "To  Mr.  Greene  is  due  my  success  in,  and  love  for  lit- 
erature. My  first  insight  into  its  beauties  came  from  him,  as 
I  listened  to  his  reading  of  Milton,  and  among  my  most  precious 
possessions  is  the  old  Index  Rerum,*  now  nearly  filled,  which 
I  began  to  fill  in  his  classes.  It  has  been  my  constant  com- 
panion, and  my  own  pupils  were  all  familiar  with  it."  Mr. 
Greene  was  widely  known  for  his  success  in  teaching  "The 
Poets,"  and  before  coming  to  the  Oread  had  had  many  private 
classes  in  the  city  in  that  subject. 

Associated  with  Mr.  Greene  in  all  his  work  was  his  brilliant 
and  versatile  wife.  She  was  a  woman  of  great  refinement  and 
culture,  a  talented  artist,  an  accomplished  musician,  and  pos- 
sessed of  a  wide  and  appreciative  knowledge  of  literature.  In 
spite  of  the  fact  that  at  this  time  she  was  burdened  with  the 
cares  of  a  family  of  four  small  children,  she  found  time  to 
become  personally  acquainted  with  most  of  her  husband's  pupils, 
to  mother  them  and  cheer  them  when  they  were  homesick  or  ill, 
and  during  nearly  the  whole  of  Mr.  Greene's  administration  to 
render  him  valuable  assistance  by  giving  instruction  on  the 
piano,  and  in  painting  and  drawing.  She  was  a  brilliant  con- 
versationalist, and  at  any  entertainment  the  sparkling  center  of 
the  whole. 

Another  member  of  Mr.  Greene's  family  whom  all  will 
remember  was  Mrs.  E.  S.  Seamans,  Mrs.  Greene's  mother,  a 
bright,  keen-minded  and  cheery  old  lady,   interested   in  every- 

*This  Index  Rerum  was  a  note  book,  into  which  were  copied  all  the 
passages  which  the  girls  were  required  to  learn. 


232  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

thing  and  in  everybody,  still  active  and  vigorous  in  body  and 
intellect  in  spite  of  her  advancing  years.  And  nearly  always 
with  her  was  to  be  found  her  dearest  friend  and  companion,  her 
gentle  and  timid  little  granddaughter  Alice.  As  will  be  remem- 
bered. Alice  died  while  her  father  was  still  Principal  of  the 
Oread. 

About  the  time  that  he  took  the  principalship  of  the  Oread, 
Mr.  Greene  founded,  and  afterwards  had  charge  of,  an  institu- 
tion called  the  Oread  High  and  Grammar  School.  This  school, 
situated  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Austin  streets,  was  a  private 
preparatory  school  for  boys  and  girls,  fitting  boys  for  college 
and  girls  chiefly  for  the  Oread.  It  was  always  very  closely 
connected  with  that  institution,  some  of  its  teachers  having 
classes  at  both,  and  all  of  them  boarding  at  the  Oread.  The 
smaller  Oread  pupils  often  attended  the  Grammar  School 
instead  of  the  Institute.  Miss  Ava  Williams,  well  known  to 
Oreades,  was  its  first  and  best-known  principal. 

The  life  at  the  Oread  under  Mr.  Greene  showed  a  healthy 
tendency  towards  devotion  to  study  rather  than  towards  social 
gaieties.  The  daily  routine  was  as  follows :  Breakfast  was  at 
seven,  followed  by  a  "silent  time"  for  private  devotions.  Reci- 
tations were  heard  in  the  morning  only,  and  they  lasted  till 
dinner  time  at  one  o'clock.  Study  hours  were  in  the  afternoon 
till  four,  and  in  the  evening.  The  recreation  period  was  from 
four  till  six.  On  Monday  and  Wednesday  evenings  the  pupils 
had  gymnastic  exercises  in  the  dining  room  immediately  after 
supper.  On  Thursday  evening  Mr.  Greene  gave  what  was 
called  a  religious  lecture,  and  these  little  talks  were  so  sane, 
sensible  and  helpful,  and  at  the  same  time  were  inspired  by 
such  lofty  ideals,  that  his  pupils  speak  of  them  as  one  of  the 
most  valuable  and  not  the  least  attractive  part  of  the  week's 
routine.  On  Saturday  evening  was  the  prayer  meeting,  and 
on  Sunday  evening  the  Bible  class.  Saturday  was  a  day  of 
recreation,  with  the  exception  of  study  hours  from  eleven  to 
one  in  the  morning  and  for  a  short  time  in  the  evening. 

The  two  great  social  events  of  the  year  were  the  annual 
soiree,  given  in  connection  with  the  commencement  exercises 
in  June,  and  the  semi-annual  soiree  given  usually  in  February. 
To  these  the  friends  of  the  pupils  and  of  the  school  were 
invited.      An    entertainment    was   given   by   the   pupils,   consist- 


THE    DRAWING     ROOM. 


MR.     GREENE  S    STUDY. 


Mr.   Greene's  Administration  233 

ing  of  musical  selections,  recitations,  tableaux  or  dramatics. 
On  one  occasion  scenes  were  given  from  Racine's  Athalic,  in 
French.  But  the  dramatics,  though  frequently  given  in  French, 
were  usually  of  a  less  ambitious  character.  A  reception  fol- 
lowed this  entertainment. 

It  is  very  difficult  to  write  an  interesting  story  of  the  life  at 
any  well-conducted  school.  Its  atmosphere  of  studious  quiet 
shows  a  dearth  of  exciting  incidents,  either  within  or  without 
the  daily  routine.  The  life  at  the  Oread  under  Air.  Greene 
shows  this  freedom  from  unusual  incident.  There  was.  how- 
ever, one  notable  exception,  and  this  was  the  burning  of  the 
barn  in  the  spring  of  187 1.  This  barn  was  a  wooden  structure, 
standing  in  the  rear  of  the  Oread  at  some  little  distance  from 
the  main  building.  The  girls  were  roused  in  the  dead  of  night 
by  the  crackling  of  the  blaze  and  by  the  bright  glare  of  flames, 
which  shone  into  their  rooms  with  the  brilliancy  of  daylight. 
The  smell  of  smoke  and  the  evident  nearness  of  the  conflagra- 
tion gave  the  impression  that  the  Oread  itself  was  on  lire,  and 
although  the  consternation  and  terror  caused  by  this  impression 
was  soon  put  an  end  to  by  the  discovery  of  the  real  location  of 
the  blaze,  the  girls  did  not  recover  from  the  effects  of  their 
fright  for  a  long  time.  Xot  the  least  distressing  incident  con- 
nected with  the  burning  of  the  barn  was  the  discovery  that  the 
handsome  black  horse,  owned  by  Air.  Greene  and  a  great  pet 
among  the  girls,  had,  after  frantic  efforts  to  escape,  lost  its 
life  in  the  flames. 

Another  incident  which  caused  some  temporary  excitement, 
but  which  afterwards  proved  to  have  a  more  humorous  than 
serious  side,  was  a  spectacular  attempt  on  the  part  of  the  dis- 
reputable, and  therefore  cast-off,  husband  of  Airs.  Dennis,  the 
cook,  to  make  her  return  to  her  home  and  live  with  him.  His 
method  was  a  pretended  attempt  at  suicide.  His  aim  was  inten- 
tionally wide  of  the  mark,  but  his  pistol  made  a  very  loud  noise. 
This  did  not  move  the  hard  heart  of  Airs.  Dennis,  but  it  caused 
a  very  considerable  panic  among  the  girls,  who  tried  to  prevent 
Air.  Greene  from  going  down  to  the  kitchen  to  investigate.  He 
went,  however,  just  in  time  to  see  Air.  Dennis,  discouraged  and 
rejected,  disappearing  around  the  end  of  the  Oread. 

The  standard  of  scholarship  at  the  Oread  under  Air.  Greene 
was  very  high.      His   requirements   for  the   degree   of   Oreas 


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Erudita  included  Algebra,  Geometry  and  Trigonometry,  Physi- 
ology, Natural  Philosophy,  Chemistry,  Botany  and  Astronomy, 
four  years  of  Latin  and  three  of  French,  History,  Intellectual 
and  Moral  Philosophy,  Rhetoric  and  English  Literature,  and 
the  courses  were  of  a  difficulty  worthy  of  an  institution  of  col- 
legiate grade.  Optional  courses  were  offered  in  Analytical 
Geometry  and  Conic  Sections,  Natural  History,  Geology,  Logic, 
German  and  Greek.  Several  took  the  course  in  Greek,  and  it  is 
noteworthy  that  the  present  head  of  the  Greek  department  at 
Yassar  College  began  the  study  of  that  language  at  the  Oread. 

From  1868  to  1879  there  was  no  year  without  its  graduating 
class.  None  of  these  classes  had  less  than  four  members.  The 
class  of  1873  had  thirteen  members,  the  largest  number  in  the 
history  of  the  school.  In  1868  there  were  eight  graduates,  in 
1869  six,  in  1870  nine,  in  1871  eleven,  in  1872  five,  in  1873 
thirteen,  in  1874  four,  in  1875  ten,  in  1876  five,  in  1877  four, 
in  1878  five,  and  in  1879  f°ur I    making  a  total  of  eighty-four. 

The  average  number  of  pupils  enrolled  during  the  first  six 
years  of  this  administration  was  nearly  one  hundred  and  forty. 
About  this  time  the  large  woman's  colleges,  Yassar,  Smith  and 
Wellesley,  threw  open  their  doors,  turning  towards  themselves 
the  tide  of  patronage  among  New  England  girls  of  scholarly 
ambition,  and  affecting  seriously  the  attendance  at  many  schools 
of  collegiate  grade,  like  the  Oread.  A  private  institution  could 
not  compete  with  institutions  on  a  permanent  foundation  and 
with  larger  endowments,  and  after  1874  the  average  registra- 
tion at  the  Oread  was  only  about  seventy.  The  collegiate  insti- 
tute was  the  forerunner  of  the  woman's  college.  It  prepared 
the  way  for  it  and  made  it  possible.  After  the  college  was 
founded  the  important  work  of  the  collegiate  institute  was 
done,  and  it  was  inevitable  that  as  the  strength  of  the  one 
increased,  the  necessity  for  the  existence  of  the  other  should 
gradually  decrease. 

An  account  of  the  life  at  the  Oread  under  Air.  Greene  would 
be,  to  the  minds  of  many  of  his  pupils,  manifestly  incomplete, 
if  it  contained  no  mention  of  the  many  excellent  teachers  who 
formed  his  faculty.  The  Oread  was  famed  in  those  days  for 
the  high  quality  of  the  instruction  given,  especially  during  the 
first  six  years  of  the  administration.  It  would  be  impossible 
to  give  even  brief  mention  of  all,  but  there  were  two  or  three 


Mr.  Greene's  Administration  235 

whose  connection  with  the  Oread  was  so  long  and  who  made  an 
abiding"  impression  on  so  many  of  the  pupils,  that  they  deserve 
at  least  a  passing  notice.  They  were  all  skilled  teachers,  but 
it  is  for  their  attractive  or  forceful  personal  qualities  that  their 
old  pupils  still  hold  them  in  loving  memory.  First  of  all  there 
was  Miss  Goddard,  a  bright-eyed  little  woman,  wide-awake  and 
energetic;  in  discipline  ever  most  wise  and  just,  in  manner 
warm-hearted  and  affectionate,  and  one  who  had  the  charming 
grace  of  making  each  pupil  feel  she  had  a  personal  interest  in 
her.  Then  there  was  Miss  Jennie  Woodbury,  sweet,  young 
and  girlish,  who  seemed,  in  fact,  more  like  one  of  the  girls 
herself  than  one  of  the  teachers;  and  Miss  Ava  Williams,  every 
inch  a  lady,  as  was  shown  in  the  exquisite  care  of  her  dress 
and  in  her  manner  of  gracious  dignity ;  punctilious  in  every 
detail  and  the  soul  of  honor,  possessing  among  the  Oread  pupils 
a  remarkable  reputation  for  intuitively  knowing  everything  that 
was  going  on ;  the  loyal  friend  and  encourager  of  those  who 
were  ambitious  to  do  their  best,  the  relentless  scorner  of  the 
idler  and  the  shirk.  These  three  teachers  were  associated  with 
Mr.  Greene  during  the  whole  of  the  first  half  of  his  adminis- 
tration.* Prominent  among  the  teachers  of  the  latter  half 
were  Miss  Abbie  Leach,  dignified,  scholarly,  and  of  high  ambi- 
tion. Miss  Parkinson,  gentle,  retiring,  and  conscientious,  and 
Miss  Helen  Wood,  true-hearted  and  faithful. 

Of  the  non-resident  teachers,  who  could  ever  forget  Mrs. 
Sumner,  always  full  of  life  and  push,  the  indefatigable  worker, 
big-hearted,  and  possessed  of  a  refreshingly  large  modicum  of 
sane,  practical,  common  sense ;  or  the  instructors  in  vocal  and 
instrumental  music,  Mrs.  Doane  and  Professor  Ainsworth, 
both  a  source  of  pride  to  the  school  for  the  excellent  musical 
reputation  they  gave  it :  both  accepting  nothing  but  the  most 
conscientious  work  on  the  part  of  their  pupils,  yet  never  ceas- 
ing to  be  pleasantly  encouraging.  Mrs.  Childs,  matron  from 
1869  to  1874.  Oread  pupils  will  remember  as  a  woman  of 
refinement  and  superior  intelligence,  quiet,  yet  winning  univer- 

A.s  a  matter  of  fact  Miss  Williams  was  regularly  connected  with  the 
school  as  a  teacher  for  only  three  years,  but  she  boarded  there  while 
she  was  principal  of  the  Oread  High  and  Grammar  School,  knew  all 
the  pupils,  and,  until  1873,  was  as  much  a  part  of  the  school  life  as  Mr. 
Greene  himself. 


236  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

sal  respect;  persistently  conscientious  and  faithful  in  the  per- 
formance of  all  her  duties  regardless  of  consequences,  yet  ever 
regarded  with  love  and  affection  by  all  who  lived  in  Oread 
Castle  in  those  days. 

Besides  their  duties  as  supervisors  of  discipline  and  the 
moral  and  religious  welfare  of  the  school,  the  Principal  and 
Preceptresses  took  upon  themselves  the  chief  burden  of  instruc- 
tion in  the  strictly  academic  and  collegiate  branches,  except 
French  and  German.  In  addition  to  these,  assisted  by  Miss 
Goddard,  Miss  Woodbury  and  Miss  Williams  in  the  first  six 
years  and  later  by  Miss  Leach,  Miss  Parkinson  and  Miss  Wood, 
there  were  eight  other  instructors  in  the  academic  branches, 
but  no  two  of  these  were  there  together  and  only  one  of  them 
stayed  over  a  year,  that  one  being  a  non-resident  lecturer. 

Mr.  Greene  provided  excellent  instruction  in  French  and 
German.  During  the  twelve  years  of  his  administration  there 
were  ten  different  instructors  in  the  Modern  Languages,  includ- 
ing three  native  French  teachers  and  two  native  Germans. 
Three  of  these  instructors  taught  both  French  and  German. 

Music  was,  of  course,  a  large  department  and  always  called 
for  from  three  to  six  instructors.  Professor  Ainsworth  was 
the  head  of  the  department  of  instrumental  music  for  a  large 
part  of  Air.  Greene's  administration,  and  was  succeeded  by 
Professor  Story.  Mrs.  Greene's  name  is  found  on  the  rolls 
as  instructor  in  piano  from  1869  to  1879.  There  were  five 
other  assistant  instructors,  but  their  connection  with  the  school 
lasted  only  one  or  two  years  each.  As  head  of  the  department 
of  vocal  music  Mrs.  A.  L.  Doane  was  connected  with  the  school 
for  eight  years.  She  was  preceded  by  Mrs.  E.  A.  Allen  and 
succeeded  by  Mr.  Walter  Kennedy.  Mr.  W.  E.  Chandler  gave 
instruction  in  this  department  in  1869. 

Besides  these  more  important  departments  a  special  instruc- 
tor was  always  provided  in  the  department  of  Painting  and 
Drawing,  in  the  department  of  Art  Fancy  Work,  in  Gymnastics 
and  Voice  Culture,  and  in   Penmanship. 

A  complete  list  of  Air.  Greene's  preceptresses  and  teachers, 
with  the  matrons  who  had  charge  of  the  household  affairs, 
follows.     This  does  not  include  the  teachers  of   1866-67. 


Mr.  Greene's  Administration 


237 


PRECEPTRESSES.  FRENCH. 

Mrs.  J.  J.  Tucker,  1S67-69,  p.  26S.  Mile.  Louise  Amaron,  1867-69, 
Miss  Adelaide  L.  Smiley,  1S69-70,  p.  24S. 

p.  169.  Miss  Sarah  Willard,  1869-70,  p.  270. 

Miss  Mary  C.  C.  Goddard,  1S70-71,  Madame  Perside  A.  Clements, 

p.  260.  1870-71.  p.  255. 

Miss  Ava  Williams,  1871-73,  p.  270.  Miss  Elizabeth  Clark,  1S71-72,  p.  254. 

Mrs.  Helen  Bcothby,  /Sjj-74.  Madame  Minna  V.  Fitch,  1872-76, 
Miss  Mar)-  A.  Hodgkins,  1874-76,  p.  37. 

p.  261.  Miss  Penelope  Burns,  1876-77, 
Miss  Abby  Leach,  1S76-7S,  p.  297.  p.  251. 

Mrs.  Harris  R.  Greene,  1S78-79,  Mile,  Bertha  Marchal,  iSjj-jS. 

P-  24?. 


TEACHERS    IN    THE    ACADEMIC 
BRANCHES. 

Miss  Mar)-  C.  C.  Goddard,  1S65-73. 

p.  260. 
Miss  Jennie  L.  Woodbury, 

1S64-73,  p.  272. 
Miss  Ava  Williams,  1867,  1S71-73, 

p.  270. 
Miss  Lizzie  Howe,  1S66-68,  p.  261. 
Miss  Fannie  L.  Mcintosh,  186S-69, 

p.  281. 
Miss  Ella  M.   Eddy,  1871-72,  p.  288. 
Miss  S.  L.  Merrill,  1S72-73,     p.  303. 
Miss  Abby  Leach,  1S73-7S,  p.  297. 
Miss  Caroline  Parkinson,  1873-75, 

p.  263. 
Miss  Martha  E.  Burt,  1S73-74,  p.  294. 
Miss  Nellie  F.  Collins,  1874—75. 
Miss  Helen  M.Wood,  1S76-79,  p.  323. 
Prof.  James  Bushee,  1S74-79,  p.  251. 
Miss  Abbie  S.  Russell,  187S-79, 

p.  420 


Madame  Minna  V.  Fitch,  1S64-68, 

P-  37- 
Miss  M.  Anna   Wilson,  iS6S-6g. 
Miss  Sarah  Willard.  1869-70,   p.  270. 
Prof.  Carl  S.  LakebusA,  1870-72. 
Madame  Minna  V.   Fitch,  1S72-76, 

P-  37- 
Miss  Penelope  Burns,  1 S76— Si, 

p.  251. 


INSTRUMENTAL    MUSK   . 

Prof.  C.  C.  Stearns,  1864-6S,  p.  265. 
Prof.  H.  L.  Ainsworth,  1867-75. 

p.  247. 
Mrs.  H.  R.  Greene,  1S69-79,   p.  245. 
Miss  Clara  C.  Thayer,  1867-69,  p.  275. 
Miss  Isabel  Bronson,  1874-75,  P-  25r- 
Mr.  II.  H.  Rick,  1876-77. 
Miss  Anna  M.  Dunton,  p.  361. 
Prof.  E.  B.  Story.  1S75-79,  P-  2°6. 
Miss  Helen  M.  Knowlton  (guitar), 

1S65-69,  p.  262. 


VOCAL    MUSIC. 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Allen,  1S64-69,  p.  24^. 
Mrs.  A.  L.  Doane,  1869-77,  p.  257. 
Mr.  W.  E.  Chandler,  1869-70,  p.  252. 
Mr.  Walter  Kennedy,  1876-81,  p.  261. 


TAINTING    AND    DRAWING. 

Mrs.  Leonora  B.  Tooker,  1867—70. 
Miss  A.  L.  Sturtevanl,  1870—72. 
Miss  Mary  E.  Brigham,  1S72-77, 

p.  250. 
Mrs.  Harris  R.  Greene,  1877-79, 

p.  245- 


ART    FANCY    WORK. 

Miss  E.  Gilson,  1S68- 6g. 

Miss  Nellie  Durell,  1869-75.  p.  258. 


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Oread  Collegiate  Institute 


GYMNASTICS    AND    VOICE    CULTURE. 

Mrs.  M.  J.  Sumner,  1867-73,   P-  2^7- 
Miss  C.  D.  Fuller,  1873-74,  P-  259. 
Miss  Nellie  F.  Collins,  1S74-73. 
Miss  Carrie  L.  Burdick,  1876-77. 
Miss  Ella  F.  Bassett,  1877-78,  p.  280. 


ELOCUTION. 


PENMANSHIP. 


Mr.  B.  G.  Howes,  1867-6Q. 
Mr.  Franklin  Bullard,  1869-70. 
Mr.  G.   W.  Thompson,  1874-79. 


Miss  C.  D.  Fuller,  1873-74,  p.  259. 
Mr.  S.  K.  Kelley,  1874-79. 


MATRONS. 


1867-68. 

Mrs 

Hayes. 

1868-69. 

Mrs 

Edmunds. 

1869 

) 

to 

-  Mrs. 

L.  A.  Childs,  p.  25 

1874. 

) 

1874-75. 

Mrs. 

C.  A.  Flagg,  p.  258 

1875-76. 

Mrs. 

Pratt. 

1876-77. 

Mrs. 

Julia  Burdick. 

1877-78. 

Mrs. 

M.  J.   Thome. 

IS78-79. 

Mrs. 

0.  M.  C.  Holman. 

THE   CLOSING   YEARS   OF   THE   SCHOOL 


In  1877  Mr.  Greene  had  been  ordained  to  the  gospel  minis- 
try, and  in  1879  ne  resigned  his  position  at  the  Oread  to  take 
np  his  work  as  a  preacher.  He  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  John 
Alden  Thayer,  son  of  the  founder  of  the  Oread.  Mr.  Thayer 
was  a  young  man  of  fine  scholarship,  had  just  graduated  from 
Harvard  with  honors,  and  took  the  principalship  of  the  Oread 
with  the  promise  of  earning  an  enviable  reputation  for  himself 
and  the  school.  This  promise  was  thwarted  as  far  as  the  Oread 
was  concerned,  however,  by  the  fact  that,  soon  after  the  school 
opened  in  the  fall  of  1879,  Air.  Thayer's  health  broke  down, 
and  he  was  compelled  to  give  up  his  work  there  entirely  and  go 
South  for  recuperation.  The  whole  charge  of  the  school  now 
devolved  upon  the  Preceptress,  Miss  Harriet  E.  Paine.  Miss 
Paine  was  a  graduate  of  Wheaton  Seminary  at  Norton,  and 
has  since  won  considerable  fame  for  herself  as  an  author. 

When  Mr.  Thayer  took  the  school  its  attendance  had,  for 
causes  already  mentioned,  begun  to  suffer  a  noticeable  diminu- 
tion. The  number  enrolled  was  now  only  about  thirty  or  forty, 
but  the  standard  of  scholarship  was  still  high,  special  effort 
being  made  to  secure  the  very  best  teachers,  the  moral  tone 
of  the  school  was  excellent,  and  its  social  life  attractive. 

Those  who  lived  in  Oread  Castle  under  the  care  of  Miss  Paine 


MRS.     GREENE'S    PARLOR. 


A    SOUTH    TOWER    BEDROOM. 


The  Closing  Years  239 

have  many  delightful  recollections  of  their  connection  with  the 
school.  The  small  number  of  pupils  made  more  freedom  allow- 
able than  was  possible  in  its  more  populous  days.  There  was  a 
good  deal  of  social  life.  Frequent  receptions  were  held  in  the 
school  parlor,  and  an  occasional  small  dance,  with  orchestral 
music,  was  given  in  the  dining  room.  Coasting  and  all  other 
healthy  recreations  were  encouraged. 

There  were  only  two  resident  teachers  at  this  time,  besides 
Miss  Ida  Thayer,  teacher  of  painting  and  drawing  (see  p.  129), 
who  lived  with  her  family  in  the  Xorth  Tower.  These  two 
were  Miss  Penelope  Burns,  the  skilled  teacher  of  French  and 
German,  who  had  already  been  connected  with  the  school  for 
several  years  under  Mr.  Greene,  and  Miss  Paine,  the  Pre- 
ceptress. Miss  Paine  had  a  sweet  and  lovable  personality, 
through  which  she  early  won  the  affection  and  loyalty  of  every 
pupil.  One  of  them  says  :  "We  all  thought  everything  of  Miss 
Paine.  In  fact  we  loved  her  dearly,  and  we  would  have  been 
greatly  troubled  to  know  that  we  had  done  anything  to  dis- 
please her.  I  distinctly  remember  how  one  evening  some  of 
us  stole  away  without  permission  for  a  trip  to  town,  and  how 
Miss  Paine's  distress,  when  she  found  we  had  done  it,  affected 
us.  I  believe  none  of  us  after  that  found  any  especial  attraction 
in  the  infringement  of  the  rules."  The  other  teachers  under  this 
administration  were  Miss  Abbie  S.  Davis,  instructor  in  the 
academic  branches  (p.  303).  Mr.  Henshaw  Dana  and  Mr. 
Walter  Kennedy,  teachers  of  instrumental  music  ( pp.  255  and 
261),  William  E.  Xolan,  instructor  in  elocution,  and  Mr.  P.  H. 
Reilly,  dancing  master. 

The  life  at  the  school,  then,  was  pleasant,  the  teachers  were 
of  high  reputation  and  ability,  those  in  immediate  charge  were 
capable  and  wise,  but  its  attendance  had  been  so  reduced  that  it 
was  impossible  to  make  it  a  success  financially,  and  after  two 
years  it  was  thought  best  to  discontinue  it.  In  1881,  after 
thirty-two  years  of  distinguished  service  in  the  cause  of  the 
higher  education  of  women,  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 
closed  its  doors,  going  out  of  existence  only  after  it  had  helped 
to  bring  about  the  great  object  for  which  it  was  founded, 
namely,  universal  recognition  of  the  need  and  value  of  a  col- 
legiate trainino-  for  women  as  well  as  for  men. 


OREAD   TEACHERS   FROM    1864  TO   1881 


THE  PRINCIPALS 


1864   TO    1866 

Rev.  John  Shepardson  was  born  at  Royalston,  Mass.,  April 
12,  1820.  His  parents,  Daniel  and  Prudence  (Cook)  Shepard- 
son, were  people  of  the  old  Puritan  type,  and  exerted  a  power- 
ful influence  upon  their  children  in  the  direction  of  a  devout 
faith  and  a  strong  sense  of  duty.     At  eleven  years  of  age  their 

son  John  united  with  the  Baptist 
church  of  which  his  parents  were 
members.  His  thoughts  were  at 
once  turned  toward  the  ministry, 
but  the  slender  means  at  the  com- 
mand of  the  family  led  him  to 
so  nearly  abandon  his  half-formed 
purpose  that  he  entered  into  a  con- 
tract with  his  parents  to  remain  at 
home  and  manage  the  farm  dur- 
ing their  lives.  A  painful  accident, 
however,  which  disabled  him  for 
several  weeks,  led  to  serious  re- 
flections and  he  became  convinced 
that  he  was  not  in  the  path  of  duty.  His  father  generously 
released  him  from  the  contract,  and,  at  seventeen  years  of  age 
he  began  the  struggle  for  an  education. 

For  eight  successive  winters  he  taught  and  studied,  attend- 
ing the  Shelburne  Falls  Academy  part  of  each  year  and  teach- 
ing the  rest  of  the  time.  The  deep  religious  interest  shown  by 
his  pupils,  frequently  culminating  in  powerful  revivals,  led  him 
to  feel  that  he  should  not  much  longer  delay  in  entering  upon 
his  life-work.  Accordingly  in  June,  1842,  he  yielded  to  the 
earnest  desire  of  the  church  in  New  Salem  and  Prescott  to 
become  its  pastor.  Soon  after,  he  married  Maria  A.  Chamber- 
lain of  New  Salem. 


Teachers  from  1864-1881 


241 


He  remained  at  New  Salem  seven  years,  and  then  removed 
to    Petersham,    where    he    had    occasionally    held    services,    to 
organize  a  Baptist  church  there.     This  proved  to  be  a  remarka- 
ble pastorate  of  twenty-three  years. 
During    two    years    of    this    time, 
from    1864   to    1866,    he    was    also 
Principal    of    the    Oread    Institute, 
returning  to  Petersham  weekly  for 
the  Sabbath  services. 

In  1866  he  founded  the  High- 
land Institute,  Petersham,  which  he 
managed  in  connection  with  church 
work  until  the  close  of  this  pastor- 
ate, when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Baptist  Church  in  Wales,  Mass.  It 
was  here  that  his  wife  died.  Two 
daughters  were  left  to  him :    Addie 

F.,  who  was  married  to  W.  T.  Leonard  of  Taunton,  Mass. ; 
and  Ella  S.,  an  Oread  graduate  of  1866,  who  was  married  to 
Rev.  F.  E.  Tower.  Before  the  close  of  this  pastorate  he  was 
married  again  to  Mrs.  Maria  B.  Jones  of  Taunton. 

In  1876  he  removed  to  Greenfield,  Mass.,  to  assume  the  pas- 
torate of  the  Baptist  Church  in  that  place.  Here  he  remained 
eleven  years.  Then  failing  health  compelled  him  to  lay  the 
burden  down,  and  he  removed  to  Taunton,  assuming  charge, 
however,  of  the  church  in  Norton,  so  far  as  to  supply  the 
pulpit  on  the  Sabbath.  This  he  continued  to  do  till  within  two 
weeks  of  his  death,  which  occurred  December  14,   1889. 


1864   TO    1867 

Miss  Sophia  B.  Packard  and  Miss  Harriet  E.  Giles  were 
so  closely  associated  in  all  their  life-work  that  it  seems  fitting 
to  make  one  biography  serve  for  both.  Miss  Packard  was 
born  in  Xew  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1824,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Winslow  and  Rachel  (Freeman)  Packard.  Miss  Giles  was  the 
daughter  of  Mr.  Samuel  Giles  of  Xew  Salem.  Although  born 
in  the  same  town  they  were  not  acquainted  until  Miss  Packard 
went  to  New  Salem  Academy  as  Preceptress  in  1855.  Miss 
Packard  began  to  teach  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  continued  in 
16 


242  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

that  profession  until  her  death.  At  the  age  of  twenty-six 
she  graduated  from  Charlestown  Seminary,  and  the  next  year 
was  appointed  teacher  in  the  same  school.  Afterwards  she 
held  the  position  of  Preceptress  successively  at  New  Salem 
Academy,  at  a  private  school,  at  the  Connecticut  Literary 
Institute  at  Suffield,  Conn.,  and  at  the  Oread.  After  becom- 
ing acquainted  at  New  Salem  Academy  Miss  Giles  and  Miss 
Packard  became  co-workers  and  were  never  thereafter  sepa- 
rated except  by  death.  Their  connection  with  the  Oread  began 
in  the  autumn  of  1864  and  continued  three  years,  during  which 
Miss  Packard  taught  Metaphysics  and  Literature,  and  had 
charge   of   the   school   administration,   and   Miss    Giles   taught 

Ornamentals  and  Music. 

After  leaving  the  Oread 
they  went  to  Boston,  where 
Miss  Packard  engaged  in 
business,  and  was  after- 
wards Pastor's  Assistant 
in  the  Shawmut  Avenue 
Baptist  Church  and  Tre- 
mont  Temple.  Miss  Giles 
taught  music  and  other 
miss  giles  and  miss  Packard.  branches  to  private  pupils. 

In  1880  Miss  Packard, 
then  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Woman's  American  Bap- 
tist Home  Missionary  Society,  an  association  which  she  had 
herself  organized,  made  with  Miss  Giles  a  trip  through  the 
South  in  order  to  become  acquainted  with  the  needs  of  the 
negroes.  Being  convinced  that  they  were  themselves  called  to 
work  among  the  illiterate  negro  women  of  the  South,  they 
secured,  in  spite  of  much  opposition,  an  appointment  by  the 
Society  to  work  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 

April  11,  1881,  their  school,  then  called  the  Atlanta  Baptist 
Female  Seminary,  was  opened  in  the  dark  basement  of  the 
Friendship  Baptist  Church,  witb  an  attendance  of  eleven  pupils, 
most  of  them  full-grown  women.  By  the  close  of  the  year 
there  were  eighty  pupils,  and  at  the  opening  of  the  school  the 
next  fall,  one  hundred  and  seventy-three  were  enrolled.  Since 
that  time  the  school  has  steadily  increased  in  numbers  and 
equipment.     After  being  the  principal  of  this  school  for  eight 


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or  nine  years  Miss  Packard's  health  gave  out,  and  although  she 
took  a  long  vacation  and  traveled  in  Europe  for  her  health,  she 
never  really  recovered,  and  died  in  June,  1891,  at  Washington, 
D.  C.j  on  her  way  home  to  Massachusetts.  She  was  buried  in 
Athol,  .Mass.,  June  24,  1891.  After  her  death  Miss  Giles 
became  President  of  the  institution,  and  still  holds  that  posi- 
tion. It  is  now  the  largest  school  for  colored  women  in  the 
United  States,  and  its  name  has  been  changed  to  Spelman  Semi- 
nary in  honor  of  Mr.  Harvey  B.  Spelman,  an  ardent  advocate 
of  the  cause  of  negro  education  and  father  of  Mrs.  John  D. 
Rockefeller,  whose  husband  has  always  been  one  of  its  most 
generous  benefactors.  At  present  Spelman  Seminary  numbers 
nearly  seven  hundred  pupils  and  forty-one  teachers.  It  has 
twenty  acres  of  beautifully  kept  grounds  on  which  stand  eight 
large  brick  buildings,  with  all  the  modern  improvements,  includ- 
ing steam  heat  and  electricity.  Its  forty  class-rooms  are  suita- 
bly equipped  with  all  modern  appliances  and  the  school  boasts 
a  good  library,  a  small  museum,  and  a  well  supplied  reading 
room.  The  courses  of  instruction  include  primary,  intermedi- 
ate, grammar,  academic  and  college  preparatory  courses,  a  nor- 
mal and  training  course,  a  missionary  training,  and  also  a  nurse 
training  and  industrial  course. 

It  stands  as  a  splendid  monument  to  the  noble  consecration 
and  untiring  efforts  of  these  two  brave  women. 

Miss  Giles'  address  is :    Spelman  Seminary,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

1866   TO    1879 

Harris  Ray  Greene  was  born  in  North  Kingstown.  R.  I., 
August  16,  1829.  He  was  the  son  of  Colonel  James  and  Lucy 
(Sherman)  Greene.  His  father  was  a  descendant  of  General 
Xathanael  Greene  of  Revolutionary  fame,  and  his  mother  a 
descendant  of  Roger  Sherman  of  Connecticut.  There  were 
eight  children  in  the  family,  of  whom  Harris  was  the  fifth. 
His  home  was  in  the  country  and  there  he  learned  to  love 
nature  in  her  ''visible  forms,"  and  received  inspiration  for  his 
life-work. 

lie  early  evinced  a  love  of  study,  and  attended  the  district 
school  near  his  home,  and  later  a  school  kept  by  a  Mrs. 
Arnold,  a  woman  of  great  intelligence  and  of  superior  educa- 


244  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

tion.  She,  wishing  to  superintend  the  education  of  her  own 
children,  received  into  her  home  many  other  children  living  in 
her  neighborhood.  She  was  a  thorough,  painstaking  teacher, 
and  inspired  her  pupils  with  a  fondness  for  study,  and  urged 
upon  them  the  value  of  a  college  education.  Mr.  Greene 
always  spoke  of  her  with  great  affection,  and  felt  that  he  owed 
to  her  more  than  to  any  one  else  his  desire  for  intellectual 
advancement. 

He  studied  in  preparation  for  college  at  the  Wickford  Acad- 
emy, at  the  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  Academy,  and  at  the  Provi- 
dence High  School,  and  entered  Brown  in  the  year  1850,  when 
Francis  Wayland  was   President. 

In  college  Mr.  Greene  was  distinguished  for  scholarship  in 
all  the  studies  of  the  course,  but  was  especially  proficient  in 
mathematics,  in  which  he  received  several  prizes.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  high  stand  society,  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  also 
a  member  of  the  D.  K.  E.  fraternity.  He  gave  an  oration  at 
commencement  and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in  July,  1854. 
Six  weeks  previous  to  his  graduation  he  was  appointed  teacher 
in  the  Providence  High  School. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  M.  A.  Seamans  of  Springfield,  Mass., 
on  October  9,  1856. 

Later  he  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  was 
appointed  Principal  of  the  High  School,  which  position  he 
retained  for  seven  years,  resigning  to  take  charge  of  the  Oread 
Collegiate  Institute  in  September,  1866.  At  the  time  of  leav- 
ing the  Worcester  High  School  he  received  many  letters  from 
members  of  the  committee  and  others,  regretting  his  decision. 
One  of  the  members  writes  of  his  work :  "There  is  a  freshness 
in  his  manner  of  teaching  that  gives  a  pleasure  and  a  relish  for 
labor  to  those  under  his  instruction.  I  have  observed  more 
interest  and  enthusiasm  in  his  classes,  more  variety  under  any 
one  subject  discussed,  more  thorough  examination  of  the  mat- 
ter in  hand  than  I  have  met  with  elsewhere.  Our  High  School 
scholars  have  not  only  been  generally  fortunate  in  entering 
college  unconditioned,  but  they  have  remarkably  retained  and 
maintained  their  scholarship  during  their  course,  carrying  off 
frequently  the  highest  honors  and  prizes  at  Yale.  Mr.  Greene's 
love  of  language  and  its  philosophy  may  be  well  called  a 
passion." 


HARRIS    R.     GREENE    AND    HIS    FAMILY. 


MR.    GREENE.  -MRS.    GREENE. 

FANNIE.  MRS.    SEAMANS.  ALICE. 

WILLIAM.  HARRIS. 


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Mr.  Greene  severed  his  connection  with  the  Oread  after 
thirteen  years  service.  While  connected  with  the  school  he 
wrote  several  books  on  the  English  language,  and  was  prepar- 
ing a  series  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Greene  was  ordained 
to  the  ministry  at  Worcester,  May  14,  1877.  E.  W.  Robinson, 
LL.D..  President  of  Brown  University,  preached  the  ordina- 
tion sermon.  Mr.  Greene  left  Worcester  in  1879,  an^  became 
pastor  of  the  Second  Baptist  Church  in  East  Cambridge,  Mass., 
where  he  remained  four  years.  After  resigning  his  charge 
there,  he  went  to  Brooklyn,  X.  Y..  and  conducted  the  Greene 
Collegiate  Institute,  a  school  for  young  ladies,  at  165  Lafayette 
Avenue.     He  remained  there  nine  years. 

While  on  a  visit  to  the  home  of  his  sister  at  Wickford,  R.  I., 
he  was  taken  ill  and  died  after  a  short  illness,  on  August  18, 
1892.  The  funeral  services  were  conducted  at  Wickford  by 
Rev.  Warren  Randolph  of  Newport,  R.  I. 

Mr.  Greene's  published  works  include  the  following  three 
series :  "Analysis  of  the  English  Language,"  "One  Method  in 
English  and  Latin,"    and    "Inductive  Lessons  in  English." 

Mrs.  M.  Antoinette  Seamans  Greene,  his  wife,  was  born 
June  24,  1833,  at  Springfield,  Mass.  Her  father.  Otis  Arnold 
Seamans.  was  born  at  Foster,  R.  I.  Her  mother,  Emelia  Steele, 
was  the  daughter  of  Lieutenant  James  Steele  of  Ellington. 
Conn.,  who  served  under  Washington  at  the  battle  of  Long 
Island.  Emelia  Steele's  mother  was  Jemima  Wolcott,  lineal 
descendant  of  Oliver  Wolcott,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  of  Roger  Wolcott,  Governor  of  Connecticut. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  in  1879.  Mrs.  Greene  discharged 
with  unusual  tact  the  duties  of  a  pastor's  wife,  while  her  hus- 
band was  settled  over  the  Second  Baptist  Church  at  East  Cam- 
bridge, and  from  1883  to  1892  was  Mr.  Greene's  assistant  at 
the  Greene  Collegiate  Institute  in  Brooklyn. 

She  has  compiled  a  book  on  Art  and  Art  Treasures  of  the 
Old  Masters.  Sculpture  and  Painting,  and  has  painted  many 
specimens  of  grasses,  wild  flowers  and  ferns,  for  illustrations 
in  a  work  which  she  is  preparing,  entitled,  "Wild  Flowers. 
Sedges,  Grasses  and  Ferns." 

Mr.  Greene  had  five  children,  three  of  whom  are  now  living: 
Frances  Augusta,  born  at  Springfield.  Mass..  August  6,  1858: 
Emelia  Steele,  born  at  Worcester.  July  22.  1861,  died  Septem- 


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her  ii,  1862;  Alice  Maud,  born  at  Worcester,  July  15,  1863, 
died  at  Worcester,  April  3,  1876;  William  Sherman,  born  at 
Worcester,  November  18,  1867 ;  Harris  Ray,  2d,  born  at  Wor- 
cester, November  4,  1873. 

Fanny  was  graduated  at  the  Oread  in  June,  1877,  and  has 
given  much  time  to  musical  study  and  composition.  William 
was  graduated  from  Yale  University  in  the  class  of  1890,  was 
married  on  June  18,  1900,  to  Rachel  Russell  Allen,  and  has 
one  son,  William  Sherman  Greene,  2d.  Harris  was  graduated 
from  Yale  in  the  class  of  1896,  has  been  married  twice,  first 
on  January  24,  1901,  to  Edith  Rebekah  Maltby,  who  died 
November  6  of  the  same  year,  leaving  an  infant  daughter,  Edith 
Maltby  Greene,  and  second  to  Alice  Ailing,  in  the  fall  of  1904. 

Mrs.  Greene's  address  is  413  West  57th  St.,  New  York  City. 


1879   TO    1880 

John  Alden  Thayer,  son  of  Eli  Thayer,  founder  and  first 
Principal  of  the  Oread,  and  Caroline  M.  (Capron)  Thayer,  was 
born  December  22,  1857, 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Worcester,  and 


graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1879,  with  the  degree  of 
B.A.  He  was  Principal  of  the  Oread  from  September,  1879, 
till  the  spring  of  1880,  when  he  was  compelled  to  give  up  the 
management  of  the  school  on  account  of  a  severe  illness. 


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247 


He  spent  the  winters  of  1880-81  and  1881-82  in  Aiken,  S.  C. 
From  1884  till  1886  he  taught  in  a  private  family  at  Dobbs 
Ferry,  N.  Y.  In  1887  he  entered  the  Columbia  College  Law 
School  and  graduated  in  1889  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  In 
1888  he  made  a  trip  to  Europe,  visiting  Great  Britain,  Ireland 
and  Paris.  In  a  second  trip,  in  1889,  he  visited  England,  Nor- 
way, Sweden,  Russia,  Prussia,  Bavaria,  Switzerland  and  France. 

From  1892  to  1897  he  was  Clerk  of  the  Central  District  Court 
of  Worcester,  and  is  now  practicing  law  in  that  city. 

Address:   827  State  Mutual  Bldg.,  Worcester. 


THE   FACULTY 

Professor  Henry  L.  Ainsworth  was  born  at  Springfield, 
Mass..  in  February,  1836.  of  sturdy  Puritan  stock.  He  was 
dedicated  by  his  parents  to  the  work  of  foreign  missions,  but  his 
delicate  health  and  his  love  for  music 
turned  his  talents  in  a  different  direc- 
tion. 

After  completing  his  musical  educa- 
tion under  Dr.  Webb  of  Boston  and  at 
the  Conservatory  of  Berlin,  he  was 
instructor  in  music  at  Wyoming  Semi- 
nary. N.  Y..  the  Troy  Female  Semi- 
nary, the  Oread  (from  1867  to  1875), 
and  Highland  Hall.  Worcester.  Dur- 
ing these  years  he  was  church  organist 
and  choir  director  in  several  prominent 
churches. 

Failing  health  compelled  him  to  seek  a  more  favorable  climate 
in  the  West,  and  in  1883  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Leaven- 
worth. Kans.  In  1888  he  removed  from  that  place  to  Hiawatha, 
Kans.,  where  he  was  an  instructor  in  the  Hiawatha  Academy. 
He  organized  classes  in  music  in  the  neighboring  towns  of 
Highland  and  Beattie  and  was  considering  plans  for  further 
work — for  he  was  always  a  hard  worker,  regardless  of  his  frail 
health — when,  on  December  4.  1894.  he  died. 

Dudley  Buck,  the  well-known  composer,  said  once  of  Pro- 
fessor Ainsworth,    "When   he   was   in    Massachusetts   he   was 


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regarded  as  one  of  the  best  read  men  musically  and  one  of  the 
most  accomplished  instructors  in  New  England." 
His  widow  still  resides  in  Hiawatha,  Kans. 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Allen  was  born  in  Boston,  February  28,  1830. 
Her  maiden  name  was  Eliza  Ann  Cole,  and  she  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  John   and  Eliza  Ann    (Prouty)    Cole,  both  of   Boston. 

Miss  Cole's  father  and  her  grand- 
father Prouty  were  hardware  mer- 
chants, and  were  both  drowned  in 
Boston  harbor  with  several  other 
prominent  business  men  while  on  a 
yachting  trip. 

She  was  married  in  Boston,  April 
18,  1850,  to  Albert  S.  Allen  of 
Worcester,  for  a  time  Instructor  in 
Vocal  Music  at  the  Oread  (see  p. 
22).  Mrs.  Allen  gave  vocal  lessons 
to  Oread  pupils  under  Dr.  Shepard- 
son,  and  in  the  early  years  of  Mr. 
Greene's  administration.  She  was  a 
beautiful  singer  and  frequently  took  solo  parts  at  the  Worcester 
Festival.  She  also  sang  soprano  for  many  years  in  Worcester 
church  choirs.  She  acted  for  a  time  as  organist  of  All  Saints 
Church,  and  was  prominent  in  the  musical  organizations  of 
Worcester. 

She  had  three  children:  Charles  A.,  born  January  27,  1852, 
married  Grace  T.  Chase,  an  Oread  pupil  of  1871-72  (see  p.  348) 
and  is  a  civil  engineer ;  Mary  Salisbury,  born  November  2^, 
1854,  died  October  25,  1867;  Frank  Lincoln,  born  August  8, 
1862,  married  Fannie  Millet  and  has  three  children.  He  is  a 
contractor. 

Mrs.  Allen  died  at  her  home  in  Worcester,  February  2,  1885. 

Mile.  Louise  Amaron  came  to  the  Oread  as  Teacher  of 
French  in  1807,  and  left  in  1869.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Annette  (Cruchet)  Amaron,  and  was  born  August 
1  1,  1848,  at  De  Ramsay,  P.  O.,  Canada. 

Her  parents  left  Switzerland  in  1840,  and  were  employed  by 
the  French-Canadian  Missionary  Society  (Protestant)  to  pro- 
claim the  gflad  tidings  of  the  Gospel  to  the  Roman  Catholics  of 


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249 


the  Province  of  Quebec.     They  founded  the  now  prosperous 
Mission  Schools  of  Pointe  anx  Trembles  near  Montreal. 

After  leaving  the  Oread,  .A  I  lie.  Amaron  taught  four  years  in 
the    Ipswich    Female    Seminar),    of 
which  Airs.  E.  C.  Cowles  was  Prin- 
cipal. 

In  1875,  at  the  request  of  many 
parents  the  Amarons  opened  their 
present  boarding  school.  With  Allle. 
Amaron  was  associated  in  this  work, 
her  sister,  A  [me.  Perside  A.  Cle- 
ments, who  taught  at  the  Oread  in 
1870-71.  The  object  of  the  school 
is  to  give  a  liberal  education  in  all 
branches,  especially  French,  making 
the  terms  such  as  to  compete  with 
the  convents. 

Mile.  Amaron,  in  addition  to  her  school  work,  and  the  many 
charities  in  which  she  is  interested,  has  devoted  herself  to  the 
care  of  her  sainted  father,  the  pioneer  of  French  Protestant 
Evangelical  work  in  Canada,  in  his  declining  years.  He  died 
June  i,  1904. 

She  has  written  occasionally  for  newspapers  and  magazines 
in  Ontario  and  the  United  States. 

Address :    Berthier  en  haut,  P.  Q.,  Canada. 


Joseph  Banvard,  D.D.,  taught  at  the  Oread,  in  1864-66, 
Elocution,  Xatural  Sciences,  and  Aloral  Philosophy.  He  was 
brother  of  John  B-anvard,  the  well-known  artist  and  poet,  and 
was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  Alay  9,  1810.  On  his 
father's  side  he  was  descended  from  the  French  Huguenots, 
and  on  his  mother's  from  the  early  settlers  of  Xew  England. 
His  parents  being  members  of  the  Aloravian  Church,  he  was 
brought  up  under  its  influence.  He  was  converted  through 
the  instrumentality  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  G.  Sommers, 
and  united  with  the  church  in  Xew  York  of  which  the  latter  was 
the  pastor. 

He  received  his  preparatory  education  at  the  South  Reading 
Academy,   and   then  pursued  the   full   course  of  study  at   the 


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Newton  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1835.  A  few  days  after,  he  was  ordained  pastor  of  the 
Second,  now  the  Central,  Baptist  Church  in  Salem,  Mass.  He 
conscientiously  performed  his  pastoral  duties,  but  found  time 

for  study  and  to  gratify  his  love  of 
History  and  Natural  Science.  He 
was  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Boston  Society  of  Natural  History, 
and  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Wis- 
consin. He  was  at  one  time  Vice 
President  of  the  Worcester  County 
Natural  History  Society,  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Historical  Society  of 
Passaic  County,  N.  J.  He  was  pas- 
tor for  five  years  of  the  Main  Street 
Baptist  Church  of  Worcester.  He 
was  also  pastor  of  Baptist  churches 
in  Boston  and  West  Cambridge,  Mass.,  New  York  City,  Paw- 
tucket,  R.  I.,  Paterson,  N.  J.,  and  Independence,  Mo. 

He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from 
Columbian  College,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Divinity  from  Shurtleff  College,  Upper  Alton,  111.  He 
died  September  29,  1887,  aged  seventy-seven. 

He  was  the  author  of  "Priscilla,"  an  historical  tale  (New 
York,  1854)  ;  "Novelties  of  the  New  World"  ;  "The  Romance 
of  American  History" ;  "Tragic  Scenes  in  the  History  of  Mary- 
land" (New  York,  1856)  ;  "The  American  Statesman,"  a 
memoir  of  Daniel  Webster  (1853)  ;  "Wisdom,  Wit,  and  Whims 
of  the  Old  Philosophers"  (1854)  ;  "Plymouth  and  the  Pilgrims." 
He  wrote  also  many  books  for  children  on  Natural  History, 
and  a  large  number  of  Sunday  school  question-books. 

Mary  E.  Brigham  was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Charles  Brigham.  In  1872  she  went  to  the  Oread 
to  take  charge  of  the  Art  Department,  and  remained  there 
until  1877.  Since  that  time  she  has  been  a  teacher  of  Art  His- 
tory  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  in  Boston,  passing  her  summers  at 
her  home  in   Grafton. 

Address:    69  St.   Botolph  St.,  Boston. 


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Isabel  Bronson  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  J.  and 
Mary  (Chaplin)  Bronson,  and  sister  of  Nellie  Bronson,  who 
attended  the  Oread  in  1872.  Miss  Isabel  Bronson  studied 
music  in  Worcester  with  Air.  Zutchman  and  gave  lessons  in 
instrumental  music  at  the  Oread  in  1874-75. 

She  died  in  November,  1886,  at  Lewisburg,  Pa.,  where  she 
was  a  teacher  of  music  in  Bucknell  University. 

Penelope  Burns  taught  French  and  German  at  the  Oread  in 
1876-81.     Her  birthplace  wras  Glasgow,  Scotland. 

She  is  still  a  teacher  of  languages  in  Worcester,  and  has 
many  private  pupils  and  classes. 

Address :    33  Pleasant  St.,  "Worcester. 


Professor  James  Bushee  was  born  at  Smithfiekl,  R.  I.,  on 
October  15,  1805.  He  was  the  son  of  a  farmer  in  limited 
circumstances,  the  eldest  of  a  large  family  and  obliged  to  share 

its  burdens.     But  he  was  possessed  

of  an  intense  desire  for  an  educa- 
tion. He  made  the  most  of  his 
opportunities  at  the  district  school, 
and  studied  winter  evenings  by  the 
light  of  the  cottage  fire-place  or 
candle.  Later  he  attended  for  sev- 
eral terms  the  Academy  at  Woon- 
socket,  and  for  two  years  the 
Friends  School  in  Providence. 

He  first  taught  school  at  Somer- 
set, and  afterwards  at  Fall  River. 
From  Fall  River  in  1831  he  went 
to  Woonsocket,  and  for  twenty-one 

years  was  Principal  of  the  Old  Smithfiekl  Academy,  where 
he  had  been  a  pupil.  In  1852  he  became  a  resident  of  Wor- 
cester, and  was  connected  for  some  time  with  the  Worcester 
Academy.  He  taught  for  twelve  years  a  private  school  for 
young  ladies,  and  was  also  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Wor- 
cester Eclectic  Medical  College.  For  ten  years  he  was  in  charge 
of  the  scientific  department  of  the  Highland  Military  School. 


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From  1874  to  1879  he  gave  experimental  lectures  in  the  Natural 
Sciences  to  classes  at  the  Oread.  "As  a  class-room  lecturer  and 
a  facile  and  successful  manipulator  of  philosophical  apparatus 
he  had  few  equals  and  very  few,  if  any,  superiors."* 

Professor  Bushee  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Worcester 
Natural  History  Society,  was  its  Vice-President  for  eight  years, 
and  President  in  1872-73. 

In  the  fall  of  1879  he  returned  to  his  old  homestead  in  Woon- 
socket,  where  he  taught  private  classes  till  his  eightieth  birth- 
day.    He  died  in  Woonsocket,   December  20,   1888. 

Professor  Bushee  was  twice  married,  first  in  1832  to  Lucy, 
daughter  of  George  Aldrich,  Esq.  She  died  in  1850,  and  he 
was  again  married,  in  1858,  to  Harriet  J.,  daughter  of  Harris 
J.  Mowry,  Esq.  Three  children  are  still  living,  a  son  and 
daughter  by  his  first  wife,  and  by  his  second  wife  a  daughter, 
Lucy  A.  Bushee,  who  is  an  Oread,  and  whose  address  is  101 
West  58th  St.,  New  York  City. 


William  E.  Chandler,  teacher  of  Vocal  Music  in   1869-70, 

was  born  at  West  Longmeadow,  Mass.,  on  September  5,  1839. 

On  both  his  father's  and  his  mother's  side  he  was  descended 

from  Revolutionary  ancestry. 

He  was  educated  at  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  at 
Monson  Academy.  In  June,  1858, 
he  left  home  to  study  singing,  piano, 
and  organ  under  Professor  B.  D. 
Allen  in  Worcester,  and  subse- 
quently under  Professor  Pratt  in 
Boston.  He  lived  in  Worcester  till 
1870,  during  which  time  he  studied, 
taught,  and  served  as  organist  in 
various  churches,  besides  being  at 
the  head  of  the  firm  of  \Y.  E. 
(handler  e\:   Co.,   dealers   in   pianos, 

organs  and  sheet  music.      In   iXUS  he  sold  out  this  business  and 

continued  his  teaching  and  church  work. 


;:  Memorial 
Boston,  [889. 


if    James    Bushee.       Published    by    William    A.    Mowry, 


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In  1870  he  became  organist  and  choir-master  of  the  Chapel 
Street  Congregational  Church  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  he 
remained  for  ten  years.  In  1880  he  accepted  a  like  position  at 
the  College  Street  Congregational  Church,  which  he  held  for 
seven  years.  After  this  he  gave  up  church  work,  and  has  since 
confined  himself  mainly  to  private  teaching.  He  has  been  for 
several  years  Instructor  in  Vocal  Music  at  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School  in  Xew  Haven. 

He  has  held  many  public  offices,  having  been  President  of  the 
Board  of  Councilmen  of  Xew  Haven,  and  also  President  of  the 
Board  of  Public  Library  Directors. 

He  has  written  and  published  a  number  of  secular  and 
sacred  songs,  and  many  church  anthems.  Chandler's  "Choir 
Anthems"  (two  volumes)  has  had  a  large  sale.  With  Rev. 
J.  E.  Todd  he  published  "Laudent  Omnes,"  a  small  book 
designed  especially  for  congregational  singing. 

He  was  married  November  24,  1868,  to  Mary  Pierce  Woods 
of  Enfield,  Mass.     They  had  three  children : 

Frances  Woods,  born  in  Enfield,  Mass.,  November  15,  1870, 
is  a  graduate  of  Smith  College  in  the  class  of  1894.  Since  then 
she  has  lived  at  home,  studying  vocal  music  with  her  father, 
and  frequently  singing  in  public  concerts  and  recitals. 

William  Woods,  born  in  Xew  Haven,  March  23,  1874.  grad- 
uated from  Yale  with  honors  in  Music  in  1896.  At  a  com- 
petitive examination  he  secured  the  Steinert  Scholarship  in 
organ  playing,  which  entitled  him  to  a  year's  study  in  the  Music 
Department  of  the  University.  He  continued  his  studies  at 
Yale  under  Professor  Parker  until  1901,  when  he  received  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Music.  In  1897  he  was  awarded  the 
prize  offered  by  the  Connecticut  Music  Teachers'  Association 
for  the  best  original  composition  for  solo.  He  has  been 
organist  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Xew  Haven,  and 
organist  and  choir-master  of  the  Prospect  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Bristol,  Conn.     He  is  a  composer  of  merit. 

Robert  Woods,  born  in  Xew  Haven,  February  3.  1878.  grad- 
uated with  honors  from  Yale  in  1901.  He  is  associated  with 
Robert  Grier  Cooke,  publisher,  307  Fifth  Avenue.  Xew  York. 

Mrs.  Chandler  died  in  1903.  Mr.  Chandler  was  recently  mar- 
ried again  to  Mrs.  Anna  Blanchard  Souther  Pond. 

Address :    106  Central  Park  West,  New  York  City. 


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Mrs.  Lucy  Ann  Childs,  nee  Kyes,  was  Matron  at  the  Oread 
from  1869  to  1874.  She  was  born  in  Jay,  Me.,  and  had  been 
married  on  November  29,  1849,  to  Dr.  A.  K.  P.  Childs,  who 

died  July  9,  1856.  Her  daughter 
Naomi  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread 
while  Mrs.  Childs  held  the  position 
of  Matron  there. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Mrs. 
Childs  took  up  her  residence  in 
Worcester,  to  make  a  home  for 
her  nephew,  who  was  at  that  time 
attending  the  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. 

In  1878  Naomi  was  married  to 
Calvin  H.  Hill,  and  Mrs.  Childs 
went  to  live  near  her  daughter  in 
Gardner,  Mass.,  where  Mr.  Hill 
was  in  business.  Mrs.  Hill's  health  was  frail  and  after  a  year 
or  two  Mrs.  Childs  went  to  make  her  home  in  her  daughter's 
family,  to  help  care  for  her  and  for  the  grandchildren.  Her 
son-in-law  says  of  her,  "She  was  a  wise,  capable,  and  good 
woman,  having  the  qualities  that  would  make  her  a  leader  in 
whatever  society  she  was  placed.  As  a  housekeeper  and  gen- 
eral in  domestic  economy  I  have  never  known  her  superior. 
As  a  mother  and  grandmother  she  had  few  equals.  The  world 
would  be  better  off  if  there  were  more  like  her." 

When  Mr.  Hill's  family  moved  to  Chicago  in  1891,  Mrs. 
Childs  went  with  them  and  remained  there  until  her  death, 
which  occurred  on  November  10,  1893.  She  was  buried  in 
Gardner,  Mass.,  in  the  same  lot  in  which  was  buried  the  body 
of  her  daughter  Naomi,  who  died  the  December  previous. 


Elizabeth  Clark  had  charge  of  the  French  Department  at 
the  (  )read  in  1871-72.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Abijah  S. 
Clark,  a  descendant  of  the  Fnglish  Hugh  Clark  family,  and 
Clara  (Swan)  Clark,  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Swan,  Esq.,  of 
Hubbardston.    She  was  born  in  Hubbardston,  February  1,  1846. 

After  leaving  the  ( )read  she  taught  French  and  English  at 
the  Academy  in  <  >ld  Deerfield,  Mass.,  going  later  to  Northamp- 
ton with  a  sister  to  conduct  a  private  school  and  kindergarten. 


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There,  in  1893,  she  supervised  the  building  of  a  house  of  her 
own,  but  after  her  brother's  death,  she  was  called  to  Holyoke 
to  care  for  his  children,  and  she  has  remained  there  ever  since. 
She  was  actively  interested  in  the  Home  Culture  Club  of 
Northampton  (George  W.  Cable's  idea),  and  has  also  had 
charge  of  the  Boys'  Department  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Address :    245  Beech  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Mme.  Perside  Amaron  Clements  taught  French  at  the 
Oread  in  1870-71.  She  was  a  sister  of  Mile.  Louise  Amaron, 
who  had  given  instruction  in  French  at  the  Oread  from  1867 
to  1869,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Amaron,  the  first  French 
Protestant  Missionary  in  Canada. 

With  her  sister  she  now  has  charge  of  a  young  ladies'  board- 
ing school  in  Berthier  en  haut,  P.  Q.,  Canada. 

C.  Henshaw  Dana  was  born  in  West  Newton,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1846,  the  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Eliza  H.  (Bates) 
Smith.  When  he  was  fourteen  years  of  age  his  mother  mar- 
ried John  A.  Dana  of  Worcester,  and  subsequently  he  took 
legally  the  name  of  his  step-father. 

He  studied  music  under  Albert  S.  and  Benjamin  D.  Allen. 
In  1869  he  went  abroad  and  continued  his  studies,  first  in 
Leipsic,  then  in  Stuttgart.  He  returned  to  Worcester  in  1875, 
and  there  lived,  teaching  and  composing  music  until  his  death, 
February  5,  1883.  He  was  connected  with  the  Oread  as 
teacher  of  Piano  and  Organ  from   1879  to   1881. 

Ezekiel  Webster  Dimond  was  born  in  Warner,  N.  H., 
August  7,  1836,  the  youngest  of  five  children.  By  the  death  of 
his  father  and  mother  the  family  was  broken  up,  and  he  was 
obliged  to  earn  his  own  living  at  the  age  of  eleven.  For  ten 
years  he  worked  upon  a  farm  in  Concord,  N.  H.  In  1858 
he  entered  Kimball  Union  Academy,  where  he  finished  his 
preparation  for  college  in  1861.  He  was  graduated  with  honor 
at  Middlebury  College  in  1865,  and  pursued  graduate  studies 
in  Science  under  Professor  Agassiz  at  Harvard  for  one  year. 
In  the  fall  of  1866  he  came  to  the  Oread  as  Lecturer  on  Chem- 
istry.    He  also  gave  lectures  on  the  same  subject  for  a  short 


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time  at  Abbot  Female  Seminary  in  Andover.  While  con- 
nected with  the  Oread  he  published  a  volume  on  the  chemistry 
of  combustion.* 

In  July,  1867,  he  went  to  Enrope  for  a  year  of  study  and 
travel.  He  visited  many  schools  of 
agriculture,  and  carefully  examined 
the  courses  of  study  and  methods  of 
management.  The  winter  he  spent 
in  Dresden  in  scientific  study.  In 
April,  1868,  while  still  in  Germany, 
he  was  elected  Professor  of  General 
and  Agricultural  Chemistry  at  the 
New  Hampshire  College  of  Agricul- 
ture, then  just  established  at  Hanover 
as  a  Department  of  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege. 

In  addition  to  his  work  as  Lecturer 
and  Instructor  at  Hanover,  Professor  Dimond  raised  the  money 
for  Culver  Hall,  the  home  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture, 
and  designed  the  plans  for  the  building.  He  also  secured  a  farm 
to  be  used  as  an  experiment  station,  and  to  afford  remunerative 
occupation  to  students  of  limited  means.  On  this  was  erected 
a  dining  hall  for  the  students  of  agriculture,  and  also  suitable 
buildings  for  farm  purposes.  The  facilities  for  teaching  chem- 
istry afforded  by  Culver  Hall  were  such  that  Professor  Dimond 
for  a  time  gave  instruction  in  that  branch  to  all  the  other 
departments  of  the  College  except  the  Medical. 

Professor  Dimond  was  an  active  member  of  the  state  com- 
mittee appointed  on  the  subject  of  a  hydrographic  survey,  and 
the  report  of  that  committee,  made  to  the  legislature  in  1870, 
was  written  almost  wholly  by  him. 

He  died  at  Hanover  July  6,  1876,  from  disease  of  the  brain, 
brought  on  by  overwork. 

He  was  married  to  Sarah  Cutler  Mason,  daughter  of  Henry 
II.  Mason  of  Springfield,  Vt.  Mrs.  Dimond  and  three  daugh- 
ters survived  him. 


*  The  Chemistry  of  Combustion,  applied  to  the  Economy  of  Fuel, 
with  special  reference  to  the  construction  of  fire  chambers  for  steam 
boilers,  By  E.  \V.  Dimond,  Worcester;  printed  by  Edward  R.  Fiske, 
1867. 


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This  sketch  is  condensed  from  'Sir.  Joseph  B.  Walker's  life 
of  Professor  Dimond  in  "Memorial  Sketches,"  published  in 
the  Sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  New  Hampshire  Hoard  of 
Agriculture,  Concord,  1876,  pp.  381-400. 


Mrs.  Katie  Dispeau,  the  widow 
of  John  Dispeau.  an  innkeeper, 
was  Matron  at  the  Oread  under 
Dr.  Shepardson.  Some  little  time 
after  leaving-  the  Oread  she  was 
married  to  Henry  Taft,  a  whole- 
sale vegetable  dealer,  and  had  a 
very  pleasant  home  in  North  Am- 
herst, Mass.,  where  she  died  in 
1892. 


Mrs.  A.  L.  Doane  was  teacher  of  Vocal  Music  at  the  Oread 
from  1869  to  1877.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Francis  and 
Nancy   (Tarble)   Dwinneli,  and  was  born  in  1829,  in  Charles- 


town.  N.  II.  In  1850  she  was  married  at  Worcester  to  Amos 
L.  Doane.  who  was  descended  from  Deacon  John  Doane.  who 
came  over  in  the  ship  Fortune,  next  to  the  Mayflower,  and  set- 
tled in  Eastham.  Mass. 


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The  following  is  clipped  from  a  recent  number  of  the  Wor- 
cester Telegram: 

"For  more  than  a  score  of  years  Mrs.  Doane  was  a  teacher 
of  vocal  music  in  Worcester,  during  a  part  of  the  time  giving 
instruction  at  the  Oread  Institute  during  its  palmiest  days. 
She  sang  in  the  choirs  of  the  First  Universalist,  First  Uni- 
tarian. Central,  First  Baptist,  Union  and  Trinity  Churches,  of 
the  latter  of  which  she  is  a  member." 

Address:    146  Beacon  St.,  Worcester. 


Nellie  Durell  was  Instructor  in 
(  h'namental  Branches  at  the  Oread 
in  [869-75.  After  she  gave  up 
teaching  she  boarded  for  a  while  at 
the  Oread,  and  not  long  after  was 
married  to  Mr.  Dwight  Sumner  of 
Millbury.  She  lived  in  Worcester 
for  a  year  and  then  moved  to  Mill- 
bury,  where  she  died  of  consumption 
about  two  years  after  her  marriage. 


Mrs.  Caroline  A.  Flagg  was  Matron  at  the  (  )read  in  the  year 
1X74-75.  She  was  the  mother  of  Emma  J.  Flagg,  a  pupil  at 
the  (  )read  the  same  year.  Mrs.  Flagg  was  married  after  leav- 
ing the  (  )read  to  David  Bemis  of  Spencer,  Mass.,  and  resides 
in  Spencer. 


Carrie  M.  Frost  taught  Mathematics  at  the  (  'read  in  the 
year  [866  67.  She  was  born  in  1840,  and  spent  her  early 
years  in  Southington,  Conn.  When  twenty  years  of  age  she 
entered  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institute  at  Suffield,  Conn., 
and  while  there  came  under  the  inspiring  influence  of  Miss 
Sophia  l'».  Packard,  at  that  time  its  Preceptress,  and  after- 
wards Preceptress  ;it  the  Oread.  After  leaving  this  institu- 
tion she  taught  at  Dr.  Fitch's  hoarding  school  in  South  Wind- 
ham. Conn.,  until  [866,  when  Miss  Packard  offered  her  a  posi- 
tion  at   tin-   Oread.      Appreciation    of   the   help   received    from 


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Miss   Packard  in  earlier  years  led   Miss   Frost  to  a  decision  to 

join  her  in  her  work  there. 

She   remained   at   the   school   one   year,   and   was  married   in 

May,  [868,  to  Mr.  Nelson  X.  King 
of  Suffield,  Conn.,  which  town  they 
have  since  made  their  home. 

They  have  had  three  children : 
Howard  Frost,  horn  June  1,  1X72, 
graduated  at  Brown  University  and 
the  Albany  Medical  School,  was 
married  December  10.  10,01,  to 
Susie  II.  Loomis,  and  is  now  a 
practicing  physician  in  Windsor, 
Conn.;  Abbie  Philendia,  horn  on 
March  13.  1879,  died  on  May  \2, 
[883;  Joseph  Warren,  born  Octo- 
ber    7.    [881,    died    May    12,    1882. 

An    adopted    daughter    died    in    i8<)8   at   the   age   of    eighteen. 
Address:    Mrs.  X.  X.  King,  Suffield,  Conn. 


Carrie  D.  Fuller  taught  voice  culture  and  elocution  at  the 
<  >read  in  1873-74.  After  leaving  she  taught  in  the  public 
-chools  of  Fort-  Wayne.  Ind.,  then 
returned  Fast  and  for  two  years 
gave  private  instruction  and  public 
readings  in  Boston.  In  1880  she 
was  married  to  J.  E.  Fairbanks  of 
Dubuque,  Iowa,  a  cousin  of  \  ice- 
President  Fairbanks,  and  a  manu- 
facturer, now  retired.  She  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Dubuque 
Woman's  Club  since  1881,  and  has 
twice  served  as  its  president:  is 
vice-president  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A. : 
and  has  served  two  years  as  Regis- 
trar in  the  Society  of  the  I).  A.  R. 

She  has  been  leader  of  an  art  class  for  twenty-four  years,  and 
is  active  in  the  charitable  and  religious  societies  of  Dubuque. 

Address:    Mrs.  J.  E.  Fairbanks,  2^,  Arlington  St.,  Dubuque, 
Iowa. 


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Mary  C.  C.  Goddard  was  born  in  Leominster,  Mass.,  March 
31,  1843,  an(l  Avas  graduated  from  Oakland  Institute  at  Need- 
ham,  Mass.,  in  1863,  where  she  taught  the  following  year. 
She  came  to  the  Oread  in  1865  as  teacher  of  Mathematics  and 
Latin,  and  remained  there  until  1873,  with  an  interval  of  one 
year,  when  she  taught  elsewhere.  In  the  year  1870-71  she 
held  the  position  of  Preceptress. 

From  the  Oread  she  went  to  the  Cambridge  High  School, 
where  she  taught  more  than  ten  years.      Since   1884  sne  llas 

been  teaching  in  the  Girls'  Latin 
School  in  Copley  Square,  Boston. 
Her  father  was  Rev.  David  God- 
dard, Jr.,  of  Leominster,  Mass.,  and 
her  mother,  Charlotte  B.,  daughter 
of  James  Davenport  of  Boylston, 
Mass.  Both  parents  were  of  old 
English  stock,  and  descendants  of 
the  early  settlers  of  New  England, 
Hon.  Edward  Goddard  of  Framing- 
ham  and  Capt.  Richard  Davenport 
of  Boston  being  ancestors. 

She  writes :  "To  honor  such  par- 
entage, to  prove  worthy  of  the 
beautiful  friendships  with  which  God  has  enriched  my  life, 
most  of  all  to  'walk  worthy  of  the  Lord  unto  all  pleasing,' 
is  a  high  and  sacred  duty,  an  ideal,  unattained,  unattainable, 
1>nt  always  present  fur  inspiration,  for  patient  effort,  for  undy- 
ing hope.  If  we  are  faithful  in  our  place  to-day,  it  may  help 
someone  else  to  be  faithful  somewhere  else  to-morrow.  Is  it 
not  beautiful  that  we  can  thus  react  upon  each  other  for 
good  ?" 

To  those  of  us  who  knew  Miss  Goddard,  as  teacher  and 
friend,  it  is  unnecessary  to  say  that  these  words  of  hers  portray 
her  true  character,  noble  in  principle  and  ideals,  faithful  and 
conscientious  as  a  teacher,  and  loving,  sympathetic,  and  helpful 
as  a  friend.  Her  influence  has  been  strong  and  ennobling  in 
the  lives  of  the  many  hundreds  of  girls  whom  she  has  helped 
to  educate. 

Mei-  present  address  is:  Miss  Mary  C.  C.  Goddard,  196  Erie 
St.,   Cambridge,    Mass. 


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Mary  A.  Hodgkins  was  Precep- 
tress at  the  Oread,  and  taught  Meta- 
physics, Science  and  Rhetoric,  in 
1874-76. 

She  was  a  sufferer  for  many  years 
from  consumption  and  made  a  brave 
struggle  for  life,  but  died  about  1882 
in  California,  where  she  had  gone  in 
search  of  health. 


Nancy  Elizabeth  Howe,  known  at  the  Oread  as  Miss  Lizzie 
Howe,  who  taught  Latin  and  English  under  Mr.  Greene  and 
Miss  Packard  from  1866  to  1868, 
was  born  in  Orange,  Mass.,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1837.  Her  parents  were 
Lewis  R.  and  Nancy  B.  Howe. 
She  was  educated  at  Shelburne  Falls 
Academy,  and  taught  for  a  number 
of  years  in  district  schools  in  Buck- 
land  and  Leyden.  Later  she  went 
to  Worcester  Female  College,  and 
would  have  graduated  had  not  the 
school  been  broken  up  a  short  time 
before  she  was  to  take  her  degree. 

She  taught  at  the  Worcester  Acad- 
emy, at  the  Oread,  and  then  at  Peddie  Institute,  Hightstown, 
N.  J.,   from  which  place  she  returned  home  broken  in  health 
March  1,  1872,  and  died  three  months  later,  June  15,  1872. 


Walter  Kennedy,  Instructor  in  Music  at  the  Oread  from 
1876  to  1 88 1,  has  been  for  years  a  well-known  teacher  of 
vocal  music  in  Worcester.  He  has  also  had  pupils  in  Boston. 
Recently  he  has  retired  from  active  work,  and  his  former  studio 
in  the  Burnside  Building  is  occupied  by  his  successor,  Charles 
L.  Dyer. 

Address :    Worcester.   Mass. 


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Helen  Mary  Knowlton  was  horn  at  Littleton,  Mass.,  August 
16,  1832,  the  daughter  of  John  S.  C.  and  Annie  W.  (  Hartwell ) 
Knowlton.  She  received  her  art  education  of  William  M.  Hunt 
and  Frank  Duveneck  in  Boston.  Her  father  was  editor  for 
many  years  of  the  Worcester  Palladium.  Miss  Knowlton  wrote 
much  for  this  paper,  and  after  her  father's  death,  in  conjunction 
with  her  sisters,  carried  it  on  for  a  number  of  years. 

She  has  also  been  connected  with  the  Boston  Post,  and  has 
written  for  other  newspapers.  She  has  been  a  teacher  of  Art 
and  a  portrait  painter  in  Boston  for  many  years,  and  is  widely 
known.  Her  published  works  are  "Hints  to  Pupils  in  Drawing 
and  Painting,"  and  "Life  of  William  Morris  Hunt."  She  has 
also  compiled  and  edited  William  M.  Hunt's    "Talks  on  Art." 

Her  present  address  is:    Xeedham,  Mass. 

Mons.  J.  R.  Lamoureux  taught  French  at  the  Oread  under 
Dr.  Shepardson.  He  is  remembered  as  being  very  eccentric, 
but  very  good  and  kindly,  and  beloved  by  those  who  gently  dealt 
with  some  of  his  unusual  ways.     He  died  about  ten  vears  ago. 


C.  Edmund  Moran,  who  taught  Penmanship  and  Book-keep- 
ing at  the  Oread  from    1865  to   1867,  was  the  son  of  Charles 

and  Mary  A.  (Hey wood)  Moran, 
and  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.. 
April  1,  1843. 

He  was  married  at  Worcester  in 
1868  to  Mabel  O.  Knowles,  but  had 
no  children.  M.  Jennie  Moran,  who 
attended  the  <  )read  in  1868-70,  was 
his  sister. 
Aj^^^^^^  -Alr-     Moraii's    health    failed    him 

j^BJ^^mL  soon  after  he  severed  his  connection 

[m^fi  with  the  1  'read,  and  though  he  was 

employed   at   various  places  adjust- 
ing books,  etc.,  as  an  expert,  he  soon 
had    to  give   up  this   work.      Visits 
to  the  Adirondacks  and  to  the  South  failed  to  restore  his  health. 
and  he  died  in  Minneapolis,  .Minn.,  January  23,   1873. 


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Harriet  E.  Paine,  who  was  Preceptress  at  the  < 'read  from 
September,  1870.  until  June.  1881,  was  the  daughter  of  Rev. 
John  Chester  Paine,  son  of  Judge  Elijah  Paine  of  Ashfield, 
Mass.,  and  Eliza  Folger,  daughter  of  Gideon  Folger  of  Nan- 
tucket. She  was  born  in  Rehoboth,  Mass..  May  5.  [845,  and 
graduated  at  Wheaton  Seminary,  Norton,  Mass. 

After  the  ( )read  was  closed  Miss  Paine  lived  at  home  for  four 
years.  She  then  taught  for  about  seventeen  years  in  private 
schools  in  Boston,  first  in  that  of  Mr.  Edmund  H.  Sears,  and 
later,  for  eleven  years,  in  that  of  Miss  Mary  P.  Winsor  at  95 
Beacon  St.  For  two  years  she  has  been  giving  lectures  to 
classes  of  ladies  and  clubs  on  the  "Heroines  of  the  Greek  Plays" 
and  the    "Heroines  of  Mediaeval  Poetry." 

She  has  published  the  following  books:  "Bird  Songs  of  New 
England."  "Girls  and  Women,"  (Houghton.  Mifflin  &  Co.); 
"Chats  with  ( Jitis  on  Self-Culture."  "The  Unmarried  Woman" 
(  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. ).  The  last  three  were  published  under  the 
pseudonym  of  Eliza  Chester,  though  later  editions  bear  her  <  iwn 
name. 

She  has  the  honor  of  mention  in    "Who's  Who  in  America." 

Address :    Groveland,  Mass. 

Caroline  Parkinson,  who  taught  Science  and  History  at  the 
( )read  in  1&73-/S'  ^"as  born  in  Columbia,  Coos  County.  X.  H., 
October  13,  1821.  Her  father,  Robert  Parkinson,  was  the  first 
settler  of  the  town.  He  was  a  son  of  Henry  Parkinson,  a 
graduate  of  Princeton  College,  then  Nassau  Hall,  in  1765.  He 
distinguished  himself  as  a  scholar,  and  gave  private  instruction 
for  a  time  after  graduation.  His  original  intention  was  to 
become  a  minister  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  but  there  were 
some  doctrinal  tenets  of  this  church  which,  at  the  time  of  his 
graduation,  he  could  not  accept,  and  he  became  a  teacher.  He 
took  young  men   into  his   family  and   fitted  them   for   college. 

Among  the  young  men  who  studied  with  him  were  Ezekiel 
Webster  and  his  brother  Daniel.  In  the  Revolutionary  War  he 
was  Quartermaster  under  General  Stark,  and  the  intimate 
friendship  thus  formed  between  them  lasted  till  death.  The 
family  were  Scotch  Presbyterians,  and  came  from  the  north 
of  Ireland,  where  Henry  Parkinson  was  born.  Three  of  his 
brothers  are  said  to  have  been  college  graduates. 


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Robert  Parkinson,  Caroline's  father,  fitted  himself  for  college, 
but  his  health  did  not  allow  him  to  enter,  and  he  became  a  civil 
engineer.  While  surveying  a  large  tract  of  unoccupied  land  for 
General  Dix  in  northern  New  Hampshire,  he  selected  a  piece  for 
himself  in  what  is  now  Columbia,  purchased  it,  and,  having  been 
married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Kelso  of  New  Boston,  N.  H.,  pro- 
ceeded to  erect  a  house  and  bring  the  land  under  cultivation. 
Here  he  lived  till  he  had  six  children.  For  many  years  there 
were  no  schools  or  churches  in  the  region.  Mrs.  Parkinson, 
who  had  taught  several  seasons  before  her  marriage,  opened  a 

school  for  her  own  and  her  neigh- 
bors' children  in  a  new  barn. 
Later  the  eldest  daughter  was  sent 
away  to  a  neighboring  town  to 
study  in  a  minister's  family. 

Mr.  Parkinson  suffered  serious 
financial  loss,  partly  as  a  result 
of  having  become  surety  for  his 
brother-in-law,  and  partly  in  con- 
sequence of  the  embargo  laid  upon 
rail  ships  in  Portland  harbor,  where 
"  7  he  had  placed  a  large  amount  of 

lumber  to  be  exported  to  England, 
which  the  embargo  made  a  total 
loss.  He  gave  up  his  farm  and  moved  to  New  Boston,  where 
Caroline  had  the  advantages  of  the  district  school.  There  was 
here  also,  as  in  many  other  New  England  towns  at  that  period, 
a  private  school  kept  ten  or  twelve  weeks  every  autumn,  in 
which  the  higher  branches  were  taught  by  some  college  grad- 
uate, or  more  often  by  some  college  student,  trying  to  earn 
money  to  help  him  meet  the  expenses  of  his  college  course. 
After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Parkinson  in  1837,  the  father  and  the 
younger  children  went  to  live  with  the  eldest  son.  then  in  busi- 
ness in  Nashua.  Here  Caroline  had  the  privileges  offered  by 
the  Nashua  Academy,  at  that  time  under  the  charge  of  David 
Crosby. 

Caroline  Parkinson  probably  began  her  career  as  teacher  in 
the  district  schools  of  New  Boston.  She  came  to  Worcester 
in  1849  or  '  850,  as  a  substitute  in  one  of  the  grammar  schools. 
She  soon  became  a  permanent  teacher  in  this  school,  where  she 


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remained  till  she  was  called  to  the  Oread.  As  a  teacher  she 
was  quiet,  retiring,  unselfish,  warm-hearted  and  conscientious, 
always  keeping  in  mind  her  mother's  principle,  that  the  best 
education  is  the  education  of  the  heart.  She  continued  her 
work  at  the  Oread  until  failing  health  compelled  her  to  give 
it  up. 

She  died  in  March,  1875.  It  was  her  wish  that  the  money 
she  had  saved  by  teaching  should  be  used  in  giving  a  college 
education  to  Robert  P.  Herrick  and  Edward  F.  Wheeler,  that 
they  might  work  in  her  place.  Mr.  Herrick  was  born  Novem- 
ber 10,  1857,  in  Brooklyn,  X.  Y.,  and  was  graduated  at  Dart- 
mouth in  1880,  and  at  Hartford  Theological  Seminary  in  1883. 
He  is  now  State  Superintendent  of  Sunday  Schools  in  Minne- 
sota. Dartmouth  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity  in  1903.  Mr.  Wheeler  was  born  January  20,  1862,  at 
Grafton,  Yt.,  was  graduated  at  Bowdoin  in  1883,  and  at  Hart- 
ford Theological  Seminary  in  1889,  anc^  ^s  now  a  minister  in 
Newell,  Iowa. 

In  her  last  illness  Miss  Parkinson  lived  in  the  family  of  Mrs. 
F.  C.  P.  Wheeler  of  Woburn,  Mass.,  her  sister,  who  writes : 

"In  my  long  life  I  have  never  known  a  member  of  the  human 
family  who  was  more  conscientious,  or  more  careful  to  do  the 
best  she  was  capable  of  doing,  in  everything  she  attempted. 
She  did  not  openly  confess  Christ  until  about  i860.  Her  horror 
of  hypocrisy  kept  her  back.  Her  influence  in  a  family  of 
children  was  especially  uplifting  and  refining." 

Prof.  C.  C.  Stearns  was  born  in  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  August 
2^,  1838,  and  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Rebecca  Greene 
(Robbins)  Stearns.  He  went  to  Worcester  to  live  in  1859,  and 
made  that  city  his  home  until  1893.  During  that  time  he  taught 
music  in  Worcester  and  was  organist  and  director  of  music 
in  a  number  of  Protestant  churches.  He  taught  instrumental 
music  at  the  Oread  from  1864  to  1868. 

He  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  members  of  the  Board  of 
Government  of  the  Worcester  Festival.  In  1877  he  was  one 
of  the  Conductors  of  the  Festival,  at  which  time  a  Mass  com- 
posed by  him  was  sung.  He  has  also  been  Conductor  of  the 
Westboro  Musical  Society  and  of  the  Xorth  Brookfield  Musical 
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He  has  written  many  musical  criticisms  and  reviews  of  musi- 
cal work,  and  has  also  lectured  on  music. 

His     musical     compositions     number     many     hundreds,     his 

specialty  being'  church  music,  writ- 
ten for  both  the  Protestant  and 
the  Catholic  church.  Of  special 
excellence  among  his  choir  pieces 
are  the  following:  "Praise  the 
Lord  Jehovah,"  "Blessed  is  the 
Man  (Psalm  I),"  "Great  is  the 
Lord,"  "How  Beautiful  Upon  the 
Mountains,"  "Sing  and  Rejoice," 
"P.enedictus,"  "God  is  our  Hope 
and  Strength,"  and  "Glad  Tidings 
of  Great  Joy,"  all  published  by  the 
White-Smith  Music  Publishing  Co. 
(  )f  his  compositions  of  secular 
music,  his  "Scenes  from  Nature:  Six  Musical  Sketches,"  is 
worthy  of  special  mention. 

On  October  23,  1872,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Gertrude  Bot- 
tomly  of  Leicester,  Mass.     They  have  no  children. 

Since  Professor  Stearns  left  Worcester  in  1893,  he  has 
resided  in  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  and  Asheville,  N.  C.  and  is 
living  at  present  in  Sharon,  Mass. 


Edwin  Bruce  Story  was  head 
of  the  Musical  Department  at  the 
Oread  from  1875  to  1879.  He  was 
born  May  15,  1849,  at  Gloucester, 
Mass.,  and  was  the  son  of  Cyrus 
and  Catherine  (Bruce)  Story.  He 
was  married  in  Boston,  January  15. 
[873,  to  Miss  Helen  E.  Bobbins  of 
Cambridge,  and  has  two  children, 
Marion  Barnes  and  Helen  Bruce, 
both  bom  in  Worcester.  Helen 
was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of 
Arts    at    Smith    College    in     [901, 

and    is    now     Instructor    in     Biblical     Literature    in    that    insti- 
tution. 


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In  1879  Mr.  Story  was  called  to  the  Smith  College  School 
of  Music  as  Instructor  in  Pianoforte  Playing-,  later  he  was  also 
made  Instructor  of  Theory,  Harmony,  and  Organ  Playing.  In 
the  newly  organized  Department  of  Music  at  Smith  he  became 
Associate  Professor  of  Music,  and  head  of  the  special  depart- 
ment of  Pianoforte. 

From  1880  to  1903  he  was  teacher  of  Pianoforte  in  the  Mary 
A.  Burnham  School  in  Northampton,  and  from  1884  to  the 
present  time  he  has  been  teacher  of  Pianoforte,  Theory,  and 
Harmonv  in  "The  Elms,"  a  young  ladies'  school  in  Springfield. 
He  is  also  Director  of  the  Analysis  Class  at  "The  Elms."  where 
he  has  given  two  hundred  and  thirty  programs  of  pianoforte 
music,  including  over  one  thousand  compositions.  Since  1881 
he  has  served  as  Organist  and  Choir  Master  of  the  Edwards 
Church  at  Northampton.  In  1898  he  received  an  invitation  to 
become  the  head  of  the  Department  of  Music  at  Whitman  Col- 
lege, 'Walla  Walla.  Wash.  In  1889  he  was  elected  Fellow  of 
the  American  College  of  Musicians. 

Address :    Smith  College,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Marion  Josephine  (Howard)  Sumner,  born  July  8,  1823. 
in  Enfield,  Mass.,  was  married  August  24.  1846.  to  William 
Sumner  of  Worcester.  The  goal  of  her  childish  ambition  was 
to  study  music,  and,  although  there 
seemed  little  chance  of  its  accom- 
plishment in  the  strenuous  life  she- 
was  obliged  to  lead  on  the  farm  as 
the  ward  of  a  bachelor  uncle,  she 
never  lost  sight  of  her  object.  It 
was  only  after  teaching  several 
terms  in  district  schools,  following 
her  own  attendance  at  the  acad- 
emies in  Westfield  and  Monson,  that 
her  great  desire  was  realized,  and 
she  went  to  Worcester  and  began 
her  musical  studies.  She  soon  se- 
cured  a    church    position,    and    was 

making  good  progress  in  her  chosen  art  when  she  lost  her  voice 
completely.  After  years  of  the  greatest  perseverance  on  her 
part,  and  through  the  skillful  training  of  one  of  her  teachers. 


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she  partially  regained  her  voice,  and  fitted  herself  for  a  vocal 
teacher.  It  was  perhaps  to  this  experience — which  at  the  time 
seemed  to  put  an  end  to  all  possibility  of  a  musical  career — that 
she  owes  her  great  success  as  a  teacher.  She  overcame  the 
greatest  obstacles  herself,  and  knew  better  how  to  help  others 
on  that  account. 

She  was  one  of  the  earliest  teachers  of  music  in  the  Worces- 
ter public  schools,  and  filled  the  same  position  in  many  of  the 
best  private  schools  of  the  city,  among  them  being  Miss  Albee's 
School,  the  Oread  High  School,  and  the  Oread  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute. For  twenty  years — till  advancing  age  compelled  her  to 
give  it  up — she  had  charge  of  the  music  at  the  graduating  exer- 
cises of  the  Worcester  Normal  School,  and  she  was  largely 
instrumental  in  establishing  in  1872  the  Worcester  County 
Music  School,  which  is  still  conducted  by  her  son. 

Of  Mrs.  Sumner's  three  children,  the  eldest,  George  William, 
who  died  August  14,  1890,  was  one  of  the  most  promising  of 
the  younger  Boston  musicians  of  his  day.  Edward  Ludwig 
is  at  the  head  of  the  Worcester  County  Music  School,  and 
Ellie  Josephine,  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1871-72,  was  married 
to  Frederick  J.  Shepard,  and  lives  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Address:  Care  Mr.  Edward  L.  Sumner,  Chatham  Place, 
Worcester. 


chased  the  towns 
from  the   Indians 


Mrs.  Mary  E.  Tucker,  who  was 

Preceptress  at  the  Oread  from  Sep- 
tember, 1867,  to  July,  1869,  was 
born  in  Whitingham,  Vt.,  in  1830. 
Her  maiden  name  was  Mary  E. 
Burns,  her  father  being  William 
Burns,  a  direct  descendant  of  the 
poet,  Robert  Burns.  Her  mother 
was  Hannah  Clement,  one  of  whose 
ancestors  went  from  France  to 
England  with  William  the  Con- 
queror. The  first  representative  of 
the  family  in  America  was  Robert 
Clement,  who.  with  others,  pur- 
lip  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  Clement  Island 
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She  was  first  married  to  Rev.  J.  J.  Tucker,  and  her  three 
children  by  this  marriage  were  with  her  at  the  Oread.  The 
eldest  s<»n,  Charles  James,  horn  in  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Augusl 

23,  1856,  graduated  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  1879.  He  was  Principal 
of  the  High  School  in  Sandwich, 
Mass.,  and  later  Professor  in  Le- 
land  University,  New  Orleans.  He 
closed  a  valuable,  Christian  life  at 
the  age  of  thirty. 

Mary  Amanda,  born  in  Worcester, 
July  17.  1 86 1,  graduated  at  Welles- 
ley  in  1888.  She  has  been  teaching 
successfully  in  academies  and  high 
schools,  and  is  now  in  the  Hope 
Street  High  School  in  Providence. 
Harvey  Judson,  born  in  Norwood,  Mass.,  in  1863,  graduated 
at  the  Boston  Institute  of  Technology  in  1887  as  an  electrical 
engineer.  He  put  the  first  successful  electric  cars  in  New 
England  on  the  road  in  New  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1888.  He  also 
established  the  first  trolley  system  of  cars  in  Denver,  Colorado 
Springs,  and  in  Utah.  He  died  in 
Denver  in  1896. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Mrs. 
Tucker  had  a  private  school  in 
Providence,  and  at  the  same  time 
was,  for  fifteen  years,  engaged  in 
studying  the  great  masters  of 
Greek,  Italian,  French  and  Spanish 
Literature  and  Art  as  the  instruc- 
tor of  private  classes  of  ladies  in 
Providence,  Woonsocket,  Boston 
and  Longwood. 

She  was  married  in  Boston  in 
1891  to  Rev.  Daniel  W.  Faunce. 
D.D.      Mr.    Faunce   is   a   graduate 

of  Amherst  (T850)  and  of  the  Newton  Theological  Seminary, 
and  is  a  well-known  writer  of  religious  works,  having  twice 
won   the   Fletcher  prize   at  Amherst.      The  prize  books   were 


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reprinted  in  Europe.  He  is  the  father  of  President  W.  H.  I '. 
Faunce  of  Brown  University. 

Mrs.  Faunce  has  been  interested  in  charitable  and  missionary 
work  among  the  French  and  Italians  in  Providence,  and  has 
written  pamphlets  and  leaflets  for  circulation  by  the  Woman's 
American   Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society  in  Boston. 

Address:  Mrs.  D.  W.  Faunce,  70  Barnes  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 


Sarah  Willard,  teacher  of  French  and  ( ierman  at  the  Oread 
111  1860-70,  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Erastus  Willard,  who 
was  a  missionary  to  France   from    1835   to   1856,   sent  out  by 

the  Baptists  of  America.  She  was 
born  in  Paris,  France,  sometime  be- 
tween 1840  and  1845,  and  as  a  child 
learned  the  French  and  German 
languages  simultaneously  with  Eng- 
lish in  her  own  home.  She  became 
a  very  proficient  linguist,  being  able 
to  speak  four  or  five  languages,  and 
to  read  with  ease  Latin,  Greek,  He- 
brew and  Russian.  She  was  also 
a  musician  of  considerable  ability, 
and  had  an  intellect  of  a  high  order. 
Miss  Willard  taught  in  the  Oak- 
land Institute  at  Xeedham,  Mass., 
.several  years  under  Dr.  Harvey.  After  that,  she  came  to  the 
<  >read,  where  we  knew  her  as  a  gentle,  quiet  woman,  a  fine 
teacher,  and  a  true  friend,  but  at  that  time  suffering  from 
physical  weakness.  From  the  Oread  she  went  to  Wellesley 
College,  where  she  was  at  the  head  of  the  Department  of 
Modern  Languages  in  1875-76. 

She  died  of  consumption  in  Newport,  K.  L,  (  )ctober  5,  1877, 
at  the  home  of  Dr.  C.  E.  Barrows,  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  whose  wife  was  her  only  sister.  Her  remains  lie  in 
the  cemetery  at  Newport,  beside  those  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
I  iarrows. 


Avaline  Williams  was  horn  in  Hubbardston,  Mass.,  April  5, 
[827,  the  daughter  of  George  and  Susan  (Sherman)  Williams. 
She  is  a  descendant  of  William  Williams,  who  located  in  Water- 


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town  prior  to  [628,  and  whose  son,  Abraham,  moved  to  Marl- 
boro, where  her  great-grandfather  of  the  fifth  generation  was 

born,  and  whence  he  moved  first  to  Lancaster.  Mass.,  and  later 
to  Holden,  Mass.,  where  his  son,  John,  her  grandfather,  enlisted 
for  seven  years'  service  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  John  Wil- 
liams married  Sarah  Davis  of  Holden,  and  moved  to  Hubbard- 
ston,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent,  and  where 
George  Williams,  Miss  Williams'  father,  was  born,  lived  and 
died.  Miss  Williams  received  her  education  in  the  academies 
at  Xew  Salem  and  Leicester.  She  early  became  a  teacher  at 
the  Thomas  Street  Grammar  School  in  Worcester  under  Harris 
R.  Greene  as  principal,  and  after- 
wards taught  in  the  Classical  High 
School  under  the  same  principal. 
She  taught  for  some  time  in  the 
Oread  High  and  Grammar  School 
on  Main  street.,  where  boys  were 
fitted  for  college,  and  subsequently 
became  Oread  Preceptress  under 
Mr.  Greene,  which  position  she 
held  in  1871-73.  Before  this  she 
had  visited  Europe  and  the  Conti- 
nent, traveling  extensively  until  the 
early  part  of  the  year  1871. 

Subsequently  she  established  a 
school  for  girls  in  Worcester,  under  the  name  of  "Miss  Wil- 
liams' School  for  Girls,"  and  continued  in  that  position  until 
about  six  years  ago,  when  her  housekeeper  and  sister,  Susan 
M.  Williams,  died.  She  then  gave  up  her  school  and  has  since 
been  living  in  Williamsville  in  Hubbardston,  the  place  of  her 
birth,  in  a  quiet  and  unostentatious  way.  Many  compliments 
have  been  paid  her  among  the  business  men  of  the  present  time, 
who  feel  grateful  to  her  for  their  early  intellectual  training. 
In  Mr.  Alfred  S.  Roe's  "Classical  and  English  High  School 
of  Worcester,  Record  of  Forty-seven  Years,"  published  in 
[892,  Mr.  Roe  speaks  of  Miss  Williams'  work  in  terms  of  the 
highest  appreciation. 

She  was  a  born  teacher.  Her  able  talents,  her  forceful  per- 
sonality, and  her  high  ideals  of  scholarship  won  her  distin- 
guished success  in  every  position  she  held. 


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In  the  early  winter  of  1904-05  Miss  Williams'  house  in  Wil- 
liamsville  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire. 

Address:    Williamsville,  Hubbardston,  Mass. 


Jennie  L.  Woodbury  was  teacher 
of  Latin  and  the  English  branches 
at  the  Oread  from  September,  1864, 
to  July,  1873.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Isaac  and  Lucy  (Arnold) 
Woodbury,  and  was  born  at  South 
Reading,  now  Wakefield,  Mass.,  De- 
cember 27,  1842.  Her  grandfather 
was  Captain  John  Woodbury  of 
Hamilton,  Mass. 

The    Woodbury    family    are    de- 
scendants of  two  brothers,  William 
and    John    Woodbury,    who    came 
from    England    in    1624,   and.    with 
John  Endicott,  Roger  Conant  and  others,  settled  Salem,  Mass. 
Since  leaving  the  Oread  in  1873,  Miss  Woodbury  has  been  a 
teacher  in  Cambridge  and  Boston,  Mass.,  and  also  in  Florida, 
but  is  now  living  at  home. 
Address :    Hamilton,  Mass. 


TWO    TEACHERS    OE    THE    LATE    SIXTIES. 


MISS    ADELAIDE    SMII.KY 


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CLASS   OF    1865 

Augusta  L.  and  Lucelia  H.  Blood  were  daughters  of  Lemuel 
B.  and  Luanna  (Allen)  Blood  of  Westfield,  Mass.  Their  great- 
grandfather Allen  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Augusta  L.  Blood  was  born  at  Westfield,   March   13,    1844. 


She  entered  the  Oread  at  the  age  of  twenty.  On  October  21, 
1868,  she  was  married  to  Myron  E.  Searle,  a  merchant  of 
Westfield,  now  retired.  Their  only  child,  Edith  L.  Searle,  was 
born  August  20,  1869,  and  died  February  23,  1895.  She  was 
a  graduate  of  the  Westfield  High  School,  and  of  Smith  College 
in  the  class  of  1892. 

Address:    Mrs.   Myron  E.  Searle,  7  Noble  Ave.,  Westfield, 
Mass. 


Lucelia  LI.  Blood  was  born  in  Westfield.  December  7,  1845, 

and  entered  the  Oread  in   1864.     She  was  married  to  Wvllys 

W.  Clapp,  a  commercial  traveler,  November   15,   1869.     Thev 

have  had  six  children,  all  born  in  Northampton :    Harriet  E., 

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born  August  17,  1871  :  Raymond  G.,  born  May  31,  1875; 
Carleton  L.,  born  May  1,  1877;  Gertie  Pelle,  born  September 
11,  187S;  Gertrude  L.,  born  June  8,  1881  ;  Newman  P.,  born 
November  27,  1883.      Carleton  and  Gertie  died  in  1878.      Tbe 


others  attended  the  High  School  in  Northampton.  Harriet 
spent  one  year  at  the  Westfield  Normal  School  and  one  at 
Smith  College.  Raymond  was  graduated  from  Williston  Semi- 
nary, Easthampton,  in  1896,  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
of  Yale  University  in  1899,  and  from  Keokuk,  Iowa,  Medical 
College  in  1902.  He  is  now  Professor  in  the  Department  of 
Physical  Culture  in  the  University  of  Nebraska,  and  is  a  well- 
known  athlete.  Newman  is  at  "Williston  Seminary.  Harriet 
was  married  to  A.  M.  Kelton  in  1898,  and  has  one  daughter; 
Gertrude  was  married  to  R.  C.  Schneider  in  1902,  and  she  has 
one  daughter. 

Address:  Mrs.  Lucelia  H.  Clapp,  65  Kensington  Ave., 
Northampton,  Mass. 

Elizabeth  M.  Hodge,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Marvin  G.  and 
Harriet  L.  (Kellam)  Hodge,  was  born  in  Colchester,  Vt.,  Jan- 
uary 3,  1848.  Her  father  was  a  prominent  Baptist  minister. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  tbe  University  of  Ver- 
mont and  from  Rochester  University,  and  tbe  degree  of  D.D. 
from  the  University  of  Chicago  in  1867.  Some  of  her  ances- 
tors were  French  Huguenots  who  came  to  America  at  tbe  time 
of  the  Revocation  of  tbe  Edict  of  Nantes,  The  I  lodge  family 
is  traced  back  to  |ohn  Hodgre,  who  was  born  in  Windsor,  Conn., 


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in  1643,  and  who  was  married  August  12,  1666,  to  Susanna 
Denslow.  Miss  Hodge  entered  the  ('read  in  1864,  and  was 
graduated  in  her  seventeenth  year. 

On  August  25,  1868,  in  Janesville,  Wise,  sin-  was  married  to 


Edward  F.  Welch,  a  teller  in  a  bank  at  that  time,  and  later 
a  commercial  traveler.  She  has  three  children,  all  born  in 
Janesville:  Raymond  F.,  born  August  18,  1869,  is  now  a  drug- 
gist in  New  York  City;  Marvin  J.,  born  March  20,  1872,  is  a 
cashier  with  Swift  &  Co.  in  Englewood,  a  suburb  of  Chicago ; 
Harold  C,  born  August  15,  1875,  is  a  farmer  in  Brooklyn,  Wise. 
Mr.  Welch  died  July  11,  1902. 

Mrs.  Welch  is  prominent  in  the  River  Forest  Woman's  Club, 
an  educational  and  literary  club  of  that  city. 

Address:  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M.  Welch.  277  Park  Ave.,  River 
Forest,  111. 


Clara  C.  Thayer,  daughter  of  Eli  Thayer,  founder  of  the 
Oread  Collegiate  Institute,  and  his  wife,  Caroline  M.  (Capron) 
Thayer,  was  born  in  Worcester,  June  23,  1847. 

She  was  married  April  24,  1869,  to  Dr.  Charles  H.  Perry,  an 
eminent  physician  of  Worcester.  Dr.  Perry  received  the  degree 
of  M.A.  from  Brown  University,  and  the  degree  of  M.D.  from 
the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College.  He  was  Assistant  Sur- 
geon  in  the  United  States  Navy  during  the  Civil  War,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  the  American 
Academy  of  Medicine,  and  the  American   Medical  Association. 


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Mrs.  Perry  is  interested  in  local  church  and  charitable  work, 
especially  in  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association.     She 


is  a  member  of  tbe  Friday  Morning  Musical  Club,  and  of  the 
Worcester  Woman's  Club. 

Address :    Airs.  Charles  H.   Perry,  000  Main  St.,  Worcester. 


Louise    E.    Tolman,    daughter    of    Hudson    and    Lydia    A. 
(Howard)    Tolman,  was  born  in  Hinsdale,  N.  H.,  September 


21,  1X4(1.  When  she  was  still  a  child  the  family  removed  to 
Worcester,  where  Mr.  Tolmarj  was  a  successful  business  man 
for  many  years.     She  entered  the  Oread  in   1864. 

On  April  8,   [868,  she  was  married  to  Charles  E.  Grover  of 
Worcester.      They   resided  in   Worcester  till   1875,  when  they 


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removed  to  South  Framingham.  In  ]<S,So  they  went  from  there 
to   Springfield.     Mr.   Grover  was  Division   Superintendent  of 

the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad,  lie  died  in  [886.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Grover  were  active  in  church  work,  particularly  in  South 
Framing-ham.  where,  with  a  few  others,  they  founded  a  church. 
and  where  Mrs.  Grover  served  as  organist  and  worked  in  the 
Sunday  School. 

She  now  resides  at  the  old  home  of  her  parents,  3  Chatham 
Place,  Worcester. 

CLASS   OF    1866 


MARIA    C.     HAKHIXC. 


MARY   J.    HASTINGS. 


FLORENCE     H.     ALLEN. 


ELLA    S.    SHEPARDSON. 


Florence  H.  Allen,  daughter  of  Avery  M.  and  Helen  M. 
(Carrington)  Allen,  was  born  in  Westfield,  Mass.,  June  14, 
1844,  but  her  childhood's  home  was  in  Albany,  X.  Y.  After 
graduating  from  the  Oread  in  1866.  she  was  connected  with 
the  Highland  Institute  at  Petersham,  teaching  principally  music. 
Later  she  devoted  some  time  to  the  study  of  music  in  Boston. 
(  )n  May  3,  1892,  she  was  married  to  Gustavus  I.  Hays,  a  mer- 
chant of  Westfield,  who  had  one  son  and  two  daughters  by  a 
former  marriage.  The  eldest  daughter  is  a  graduate  of  Frown 
University  (  1902).  While  leading  a  quiet  home  life,  Mrs.  Hays 
has  been  actively  interested  in  the  work  of  church  and  town. 

Address:  Mrs.  Gustavus  I.  Hays.  8  Conner  Ave..  West- 
field,  Mass. 


Maria   Cecilia   Harding   was  the  daughter  of  Lorenzo  and 
Hannah    (Kent)    Harding,   and   was   born    in    Medfield,    Mass. 


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Before  her  graduation  she  was  a  teacher  of  the  English  branches 

at  the  Oread. 

In  the  autumn  following  her  graduation,  in  1866,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Edmund  1!.  Otis,  a  lawyer 
of  Boston.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren: Alexander,  the  eldest  child 
and  only  son,  a  graduate  of  the 
Cornell  Law  School,  is  a  prominent 
lawyer  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. ;  Kate 
Eleanor,  a  graduate  of  Rochester 
University,  is  teaching  Science  in 
the  Rochester  High  School ;  Mar- 
garet, who  graduated  from  Cornell 
University  with  the  highest  honors, 
and  taught  for  some  years  in  the 
Rochester  High  School,  is  now 
studying   on    a    fellowship    for   the 

degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Cornell.     The  youngest  daughter  is  Marion 

Isabel. 

After  Mr.  Otis'  death   Mrs.   (  His   removed   with  her   family 

to  Rochester,   where   she  was   for  a   time  connected   with   the 

Reynolds  Library. 

She  died  in  Boston  in  June,  [896. 

Mary  Jane  Hastings  was  born  in 
Westboro,  Mass.,  April  1,  TS45.  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Timothy  and 
Achsah  (Belknap)  Hastings.  She 
was  at  the  (  )read  during  the  year 
1865-66.  After  leaving  school  she 
taught  music  in  Westboro,  and  was 
married  about  [870  to  George  l\. 
Stratton,  a  merchant  of  Gardner, 
Mass.  She  had  three  children,  two 
sons.  Herbert  and  Robert,  and  a 
daughter  Eva,  all  born  in  Gardner. 
The  daughter  died  some  years  ago. 

.Mrs.   Stratton   died   in   Gardner,    Mass.,   in   the  early   eighties. 


Ella  S.  Shepardson,  bavin; 
I  !<  inn.,  entered   the  (  )read   in 
She  was  the  daughter  of    lo 


;  taken  a  partial  course  at  Suffield, 
1805,  and  was  graduated  in  iXh(>. 
m   and    Maria   A.    (Chamberlain) 


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Shepardson  and  was  born  in  New  Salem,  Mass..  Jinn-  29,  1S47. 
Her  father  was  a  Baptist  clergyman  and  was  Principal  of  the 
<  )read  for  two  years.  She  taught  at  Highland  Institute,  Peters- 
ham, Mass.,  two  years  and  on  November  30,  1868,  was  mar- 
ried in  Petersham  to  Rev.  Francis  E.  Tower,  B.A.,  M.A.,  D.D. 
They  have  three  children :  Ralph  YV.,  born  in  Amherst,  .Mass., 
.May  24,  1870;  Maude  H.,  born  in  Boston,  September  13,  1873; 
and  Ethel  E.,  born  in  Boston,  July  25,  1876.  Ralph  was  grad- 
uated from  Brown  University,  from  which  he  received  the 
degrees  of  B.A.  (1902),  M.A.  (1903),  and  Ph.D.  (1904).  He 
studied  in  Leipsic,  Germany,  has  been  Instructor  and  Associate 
Professor  in  Physiological  Chemistry  at  Brown  University,  and 
is  now  Curator  of  Physiology  and  Curator  of  Books  and  Pub- 
lications at  the  American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  Central 
Park,  Xew  York  City.  He  was  recently  married  to  Bessie  B. 
West  of  Bristol,  Conn.  Maude  has  made  music  her  profession, 
and  studied  for  some  time  in  Leipsic,  Germany.  November  12, 
1902,  she  was  married  to  J.  H.  Peck,  a  lawyer  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  Ethel  received  the  degrees  of  B.A.  (1898),  and  M.A. 
(1902)   from  Brown,  and  is  teaching  in  Cranston,  R.  I. 

Address:     Mrs.     Francis    E.     Tower,     163     Clarendon     St., 
Auburn,   R.    I. 

CLASS    OF    1868 

Mary  R.  Adams,  daughter  of  Luke  and  Sybil  A.  (Harding) 
Adams,  came  to  the  Oread  from  Barre,  Mass.     Her  father  was 


a  native  of  Xew  Braintree,  and  her  mother  of  Rutland, 
mother  was  related  to  the  Medwav  family  of  Hardingfs. 


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After  spending  a  year  at  Wheaton  Seminary  in  Norton, 
Mass.,  Miss  Adams  entered  the  Oread  in  1865,  and  graduated 
three  years  later.  A  few  years  afterwards  she  was  married  to 
Rev.  Charles  T.  Irish,  a  native  of  Providence,  R.  I.  They  lived 
for  a  time  in  Xorthboro,  Mass.,  and  later  in  Sandwich. 

Their  son,  Harry  Adams,  was  educated  at  Harvard  Uni- 
versity. 

Address :    Mrs.  C.  T.  Irish,  Barre  Plains,  Mass. 


Ella   F.   Bassett  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Aaron  and  Jane 

(Case)  Bassett  of  Barre,  Mass.  She 
attended  the  Oread  two  years,  from 
1866  to  1868.  After  studying  music 
for  about  a  year  in  Worcester,  and 
at  the  Boston  Conservatory,  she  re- 
turned to  her  home  in  Barre,  re- 
maining there  until  she  came  again 
to  Worcester.  In  the  year  1877- 
78  she  taught  Gymnastics,  and  also 
gave  a  few  lessons  in  music  and  the 
English  branches,  at  the  Oread. 

July    25,    1880,    she    was    married 
to  Arthur  X.  Hatch.      She  had  one 
son,  born  December  8,   1886,  who  died  soon  after. 

Address:   Mrs.  Arthur  X.  Hatch,  1  Lancaster  St..  Worcester. 


Eliza  H.  Draper  is  a  descendant 
of  James  Draper,  a  Puritan,  who 
came  to  America  in  1640.  She 
was  born  in  Worcester,  Xovember 
7,  1850,  the  daughter  of  Edwin  and 
Harriette  Porter  (Healy)  Draper. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1866, 
and  after  graduating  in  1868  re- 
mained for  a  while  for  graduate 
study.  She  was  married  to  Dr. 
Joseph  li.  Robinson,  June  7,  1882. 
Her  (inly  child,  Edwin  Draper,  was 
born  July  7,  1887,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 5.  [894. 


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Mrs.  Robinson  has  given  much  time  and  strength  to  various 
lines  of  public  and  charitable  work,  the  Kindergarten  for  the 
Blind  and   other  local   charities.      She  organized  a  branch   of 

the  Consumer's  League  in  Worcester 
and  was  its  first  president.  She  has 
done  much  work  in  the  Woman's 
Club  and  has  held  various  offices, 
having  been  its  President  and  Vice- 
President.  She  has  been  Chairman 
of  the  Science  Department  of  the 
Woman's  Club,  and  Chairman  of 
its  Special  Committee  on  Public 
Schools.  When     the     club     was 

formed    in     1880.    her    mother    was 
one  of  the  first  vice-presidents,  and 
she   was  its  youngest  charter  mem- 
ber.    She  has  written  many  papers  for  her  own  and  other  clubs. 
Address:    Mrs.  T.  H.  Robinson.  106  Pleasant  St.,  Worcester. 


Hortense  Gertrude  McGraw,  eld- 
est daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
Irene  (Gardner)  McGraw,  was  born 
in  Novi,  Oakland  County.  Mich.. 
August  14.  185 1.  Her  father  was 
born  in  Ireland  of  Protestant  par- 
ents, and  died  in  Detroit.  Mich.. 
October  12,  1897.  from  injuries 
received  in  an  accident.  Her 
mother,  who  was  born  in  Han- 
cock, Berkshire  County.  Mass.,  is 
still  living  at  1085  Woodward  Ave., 
Detroit,  Mich. 

Hortense    died    from    congestion 
of  the  brain,  in  Detroit,  March   17,   1869,  hardly  a  year  after 
graduation. 


Fannie  L.  Mcintosh  was  Valedictorian  of  the  class  of  1868. 
She  was  born  in  Xew  Bedford.  Mass..  in  1849,  an<^  was  the 
daughter  of   Charles  T.   and   Eliza    (Ayers)    Mcintosh.      Her 


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mother  died   when   she   was  but  an   infant,  and  her   father,  a 
seafaring-  man,   plaeed  her   in   the   home  of  her  grandmother, 

Mrs.  Luther  Little.  She  received 
her  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Sutton,  Mass.,  and  of 
Worcester. 

After  her  graduation  from  the 
Oread  she  taught  in  the  schools 
of  Worcester  and  Maiden,  Mass. 
While  at  Maiden  her  health  failed 
and  she  was  compelled  to  resign 
her  position.  The  following  year, 
having  partially  recovered,  she 
taught  for  a  while  at  a  private 
l*  *k  JT^k  •3nflC£4      'ip^       school  in  York,  Pa.,  but  was  finally 

compelled  to  give  up  this  position 
also,  and  died  of  consumption  at  the  home  of  her  aunt  in 
Sutton  in  1874.     She  was  buried  in  New  Bedford. 


Ella  L.  Percival,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1867,  and  com- 
pleted the  course  in  one  year,   was  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Percival,   for  many  years  captain  of  a   whaling  vessel.      Her 
mother's   maiden    name    was    Mary 
Chadwick,  and  she  belonged  to  the 
Chadwick   family  of   South   China, 
Me.,   where,  on  the  old  Chadwick 
homestead,  Ella  was  born. 

Ella  came  to  the  Oread  from  Au- 
gusta,   Me.       After    leaving    school 
she  accepted  a  position   as  teacher 
in  charge  of  the  schools  of  Ham- 
monton,    X.    J.      From    this    place 
she    went     to    ( roshen,     lud.,    her 
parents*   home   at    that    time,    where 
she    taught     Elocution    and    Latin, 
and  commenced  the  study  of  Ger- 
man,   her   desire    being   to    lit   herself    for    the    teaching   of   the 
Modern    Languages,    Latin   and    English    Literature,   the    work 
mosl    congenial  to  her.     After  two  years  in  Goshen  she   was 
appointed    Assistant    Principal   in   the    High   School   at    Hen  ton 


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Harbor,  Mich.  She  taught  here  with  eminent  success  for  eight 
years,  and  afterwards  held  similar  positions  in  high  schools 
in  Ellenville,  X.  Y..  and  Doylestown,  Pa.  She  remained  in 
Doylestown  until  her  marriage,  about  [900,  to  I!.  B.  Demarest 
of  Ellenville.  Mr.  Demarest  is  in  the  excelsior  business,  and 
has  a  large  plant  in  Butler,  X.  J.,  although  their  home  is  in 
Ellenville.  He  had  one  daughter  by  a  former  marriage,  who 
lives  with  them. 

Address:    Mrs.  1'..  B.  Demarest.  Ellenville,  X.  Y. 

Kate  L.  Tower  was  the  daughter  of  Oren  and  Lucy  Lincoln 
I  Foster)  Tower.  Her  father  was  of  English  and  French 
descent  and  her  mother  was  a  descendant  of  Sir  Reginald 
Foster  of  England,  from  whom  all 
the  Fosters  in  this  country  are  de- 
scended. She  was  also  a  relative 
of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Kate  was  Salutatorian  of  her 
class,  and  after  leaving  the  Oread 
taught  for  many  years,  chiefly  in 
high  schools.  In  1888  she  was 
married  to  Roy  Henck  Pinney,  a 
native  of  Xew  York  State.  He 
lived  for  many  years  in  Xebraska, 
and  there  held  the  office  of  County 
Justice.  He  organized  the  Pasa- 
dena Investment  Company,  and  is 
Secretary  of  the   Building  and  Loan  Association. 

Mrs.  Pinney  has  been  interested  in  the  mission  work  of  her 
church.  She  has  no  children  of  her  own.  Of  her  husband's 
three  children,  to  whom  she  has  been  a  devoted  mother,  the 
eldest  is  in  business  in  San  Francisco.  He  is  married  and  has 
two  daughters,  the  youngest  of  whom  is  named  for  Mrs. 
Pinney.  The  second  son  died  in  1903  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
six,  and  the  daughter  is  married  and  living  in  Pasadena. 

Address:  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pinney.  105  South  Marengo  Ave.. 
Pasadena.  Cal. 

Emma  E.  Upham  was  born  in  Worcester.  March  z~ .  1847. 
Her  mother  was  Lydia  (YYheeler)  Upham,  and  her  father  Joel 
Worthington  Upham,  a  manufacturer  of  water  wheels  that  were 


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sent  all  over  the  world;   two  were  sent  to  Brigham  Young,  the 
first  ever  used  in  Utah. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1867.     After  her  graduation  she 

devoted  herself  to  the  care  of  her 
father  and  mother.  She  writes : 
"After  the  death  of  my  mother 
I  sold  my  home  to  the  Young 
Woman's  Christian  Association, 
and  then  began  a  series  of  trips 
in  my  own  country  and  abroad, 
filled  with  pleasure  and  profit — in- 
deed an  education  in  itself.  I  have 
had  many  thrilling  experiences. 
Perhaps  the  most  exciting  was  be- 
ing on  a  ship  that  was  on  fire  in 
mid-ocean.  We  were  obliged  to 
get  up  in  the  night  during  a  hurri- 
cane to  prepare  to  take  to  the  lifeboats.  Indeed,  we  slept 
fully  dressed  for  five  nights,  ready  at  the  captain's  call  to  leave 
the  ship,  but  thanks  to  the  good  Father  we  were  kept  from 
harm  and  landed,  after  a  long  passage,  safe  and  well."  She 
spends  a  part  of  her  time  in  her  native  city,  and  a  part  with 
her  brother  at  470  Summit  Ave.,  St.  Paul.  Minn. 
Address:    163  Austin  St.,  Worcester. 


CLASS   OF    1869 


Helen    M.    Allen,    daughter    of 

Ethan  Allen  and  his  wife,  Sarah 
Murray,  entered  the  Oread  in  i860 
and  was  graduated  as  Valedictorian 
of  her  class  June  30,  1869.  She 
was  married  to  John  O.  Marble,  a 
physician  of  Worcester,  and  was  a 
most  loving  and  devoted  mother  to 
her  three  children,  Allen,  I  Yescott 
and  Murray.  She  died  February 
12.   [903. 


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Alice  M.  Greene,  daughter  of  Millen  S.  and  Thankful  (  Still- 
man)  Greene,  was  born  in  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  June  27, 
1847.     ^ne  was  a  student  at  the  Oread  from  1866  to  1869,  and 


then  taught  in  the  High  Schools  of  Worcester  and  Pawtucket, 
R.  I.,  till  her  marriage,  March  3,  1874,  at  Carolina,  R.  I., 
to  Franklin  Metcalf,  a  manufacturer  of  woolen  goods.  Her 
daughter,  Alice  Narcissa,  was  born  July  12,  1875,  and  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Friends'  School,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Mrs.  Metcalf  has  been  an  earnest  worker  in  temperance, 
church  and  missionary  societies.  She  is  one  of  the  board  of 
managers  of  the  Free  Baptist  Woman's  Missionary  Society, 
and  is  on  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Storer  College. 

Address:    Mrs.  Franklin  Metcalf,  Carolina,  R.  I. 


Hattie  Anna  Reynolds  was  born 
in  Barre,  Mass.,  July  9,  1848.  Her 
father,  Justin  Reynolds,  descended 
from  John  Vinton,  who  came  to 
this  country  about  1643,  and  set- 
tled in  Lynn,  Mass.  Her  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Julia  E. 
Tucker,  was  a  descendant  of 
Robert  Tucker  of  Weymouth. 

Miss  Reynolds  attended  the 
Oread  from  1866  to  1869.  and 
was  then  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools     until     her     marriace     on 


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August  28,  1873,  at  Coldbrook 
Springs,  Mass.,  to  Willard  F.  Glea- 
son, a  merchant  of  Holbrook,  Mass. 
Mr.  Gleason  has  been  State  Senator. 

Their  only  daughter,  Bertha  Rey- 
nolds, born  December  25,  1876,  was 
a  graduate  of  the  Holbrook  High 
School  in  the  class  of  1893,  and 
afterwards  attended  Thayer  Acad- 
emy at  South  Braintree.  She  died 
January  27,  1896. 

Address:  Mrs.  Hattie  A.  Gleason, 
Holbrook,  Mass. 


Etta  J.  Rollins,  daughter  of 
Enoch  X.  and  Malinda  (Taft)  Rol- 
lins, was  born  in  Woodville,  Mass., 
November  20,  185 1.  After  grad- 
uation she  taught  two  years,  and 
on  November  20,  1873,  was  mar- 
ried to  Henry  H.  Loring,  a  sta- 
tionary engineer.  She  had  three 
children:  Frank  R.,  born  July  29, 
1876;  Lucretia  A.,  born  May  24, 
1878:  and  George  H.,  born  March 
12,  1880.  She  died  in  Hopkin- 
ton,  Mass.,  September  16,  1896. 


Mary  Fowler  Spink  was  born 
May  14,  1840,  in  Wickford,  R.  I. 
Her  father,  Nicholas  N.  Spink, 
was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Spink, 
the  progenitor  of  the  Spink  family 
in  Rhode  Island,  who  in  1635,  at 
the  age  of  twenty,  embarked  at 
London  in  the  ship  Speedwell, 
bound  for  Virginia.  He  was  found 
in  Newport  as  early  as  1648,  and 
is  on  the  list  of  freemen  in  1655. 
I  [e  was  found  in  Wickford  in  1674. 
(  )ne   of    his   descendants,    Nicholas 


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Spink,  gave  the  land  on  which  the 
building  for  Washington  Academy 
in   Wickford  was  erected  in   1800. 

Her  mother's  maiden  name  was 
Huldah  A.  Weeden.  The  Weedens 
in  Rhode  Island  are  descendants  of 
James  Weeden,  who  came  from 
England  in  1638  on  the  ship 
Martin. 

Miss  Spink  entered  the  Oread  in 
1865,  taking  the  full  four  years 
course.  Since  her  graduation  in 
1869,  she  has  lived  a  quiet  life  at 
her  home  in  Wickford,  R.  I. 


Susan  E.  Thurber,  daughter  of  Stephen  G.  and  Susan  C. 
(  White)  Thurber,  was  born  April  20,  1847,  at  Providence,  R.  I. 
One  of  her  ancestors  on  her  father's  side  was  Roger  Williams. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1867,  and  remained  there  until  her 
graduation,  teaching  at  the  Oread  High  and  Grammar  School 
a  part  of  the  time. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  for  several  years,  having 
good  positions  and  being  a  very  successful  teacher.  But  she 
was  often  obliged  to  resign  on  account  of  ill-health,  due  to 
over-work  while  a  student.  When  not  teaching  she  remained 
at  home  with  her  parents  at  Putnam,  Conn. 

In  1884  her  brother's  wife  died  and  left  a  little  son  five 
weeks  old.  She  took  the  boy  and  cared  for  him  with  all  the 
love  and  devotion  of  a  mother  until  he  left  her  to  go  to  a 
medical  college.  He  was  taught  by  his  aunt  until  he  was 
eleven  years  old.  Then  he  entered  school.  Xever  being  strong 
he  was  much  out  of  school,  but  graduated  from  the  High 
School  at  Putnam  the  youngest  of  his  class,  and  entered  the 
Medical  School  at  the  age  of  seventeen.  In  June,  1903.  he 
graduated  at  Tufts  Medical  College,  having  passed  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  Board  examination  and  secured  his  title  of  Doctor 
the  March  previous.     He  is  now  practicing  in  Boston. 

In  1887  her  family  moved  to  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  where  they 
lived  until  1891.  when  they  moved  to  Warren,  R.  I.  Here  her 
father  and  mother  died,  and  she  remained  with  her  brother  and 


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her  nephew   till    1903,   when   a   little   home   was   purchased   in 
Putnam,  where  she  is  now  keeping-  house  for  her  brother. 
Address:    Putnam,  Conn. 


CLASS   OF    1870 

Ella  M.  Eddy,  daughter  of  Jus- 
tus and  Lucy  M.  (Smith)  Eddy, 
was  born  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  Au- 
gust 28,  1849.  She  entered  the 
Oread  in  1866,  and  was  graduated 
in  1870.  On  October  17,  1872, 
she  was  married  to  Anthony  T. 
Briggs,  a  wholesale  coal  agent. 
Most  of  her  married  life  has  been 
spent  in  Worcester,  but  she  is  now 
living  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  She 
has  been  much  interested  in  the 
Temporary  Home  and  Day  Nur- 
sery, the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  and  the 
Her    two    children 


Woman's  Club, 
were  born  in  Millbury :  Russell 
Eddy,  born  May  30,  1878,  after  grad- 
uating from  the  English  High  School 
at  Worcester  and  passing  his  exam- 
inations for  Harvard,  became  con- 
nected with  the  Peabody  Mills,  New- 
buryport,  Mass. ;  Sara  Marie,  born 
March  23,  1880,  graduated  from  the 
Classical  High  School,  Worcester, 
and  studied  at  Bryn  Mawr  College. 
Address:  Mrs.  Anthony  T.  Briggs, 
Colonial  Court,  Cambridge,  Mass. 


Jennie  W.  Goddard  was  born  in  Worcester,  March  19,  1850, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Eugenia  D.  C.  (Ball) 
Goddard.  She  was  married  November  10,  1877,  at  Worcester 
to  Dr.  Alonzo  L.  Leach,  and  her  one  son,  Henry  Goddard,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  July  3,  1880,  was  graduated  from  Princeton 
1  'Diversity  in  the  class  of   1903.      Mrs.  Leach  died  at  Cape  May 


City,  January  26,   1890. 


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Eliza  M.  Greenwood,  daughter  of  Joel  C.  and  Hannah  H. 

(Wakefield)  Greenwood,  was  horn  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  Septem- 
ber 22,  1850.  Two  grandfathers, 
Jonathan  Greenwood  and  Elijah 
Heminway,  were  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War.  and  tradition  says  that  both 
fought  in  the  battle  of  Thinker  Hill. 
She  attended  the  Oread  two  years, 
1868-70.  Her  home  was  in  Bald- 
winsville.  Mass.,  until  1873;  since 
then  in  Wakefield,  Mass.  She 
studied  music  in  Boston  with  B.  J. 
Lang.  J.  C.  D.  Parker,  Stephen 
Emerv,  and  others,  and  taught 
music  in  all  its  branches  for  many 
vears.     She   was   a   teacher   in   the 

Wakefield     High     School     in 

[875—78,    and     Instructor    in 

Music    in    Colby    Academy, 

Xew  London.  X.  H.  in  1885- 

88.     She  cared  for  her  step- 
father until  his  death  in  1902, 

and  for  her  mother  until  her 

death  in  1903. 

She    is    active    in    mission- 
ary and  Sunday  School  work. 

and  has  been  Superintendent 

of   the    Primary    and    Junior 

Departments   of   the   Sunday 

School  in  the  Baptist  Church 

for  ten  years.     She  has  been 

a    most   efficient    member    of 

the   School   Board   at   Wake- 
field for  six  years,  and  this  year  was  re-elected  by  the  largest 

majority  ever  given  a  member  of  the  Board. 
Address:    10  Lafayette  St..  Wakefield.  Mass. 

Hattie    Louise    Lathrop,   daughter   of    Edward   Lathrop   of 
Norwich,  Conn.,  where  the  family  had  long  lived,  and  Nancy  R. 
(  Harrington  )  Lathrop  of  Shrewsbury.  Mass..  was  born  in  Wor- 
cester. August  11.   1852.     She  entered  the  Oread  in  1866  and 
19 


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remained  four  years.  After  her  graduation  she  taught  school  a 
short  time,  then  devoted  her  time  to  painting  till  her  marriage 
in  Worcester,  January  23,  1879,  to  Orfin  S.  Anthony,  a  business 

man  of  Providence,  R.  I.  She  has 
three  children  :  Ruth  Lathrop,  born 
June  25, 1880,  in  Providence,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Barrington  High  School 
and  of  the  Lincoln  School  of  Provi- 
dence, has  become  a  proficient 
photographer  since  leaving  school ; 
Harrington  Tillinghast,  born  April 
26,  1884,  at  Providence,  graduated 
from  the  Providence  Manual  Train- 
ing High  School,  and  is  a  student  at 
Brown  ;  Louise,  born  July  24,  1888, 
at  Drownville,  is  now  a  student  at 
the  Barrington  High  School.  Mrs. 
Anthony  is  active  in  the  work  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Barrington. 

Address :    Mrs.  Orrin  S.  Anthony,  Drownville,  R.  I. 


Abbie  F.  Lovell,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Kidder) 
Lovell,  was  born  in  Oakham,  Mass.,  May  2,  1848.  She  was 
married  November  12,  1874,  at 
Oakham,  to  John  F.  Boyd,  a  dealer 
in  live  stock  in  South  Omaha,  Neb., 
and  at  one  time  Sheriff  of  Douglas 
Co.  Abbie  has  had  four  children : 
Leon  L.  was  born  July  7,  1877,  in 
Omaha,  Neb. ;  Mabel  A.,  born  Sep- 
tember 12,  1879,  in  Omaha,  was 
married  January  16,  1900,  to  Brain- 
erd  H.  Smith  of  North  Brookfield, 
Mass. ;  Lulu  P.  was  born  December 
5,  1881,  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa; 
Bessie  M.,  born  June  13,  1883,  at 
Council  Bluffs,  died  May  26,   [895. 

Mr.  Boyd  died  on  January  26,  1892.  Airs.  Boyd  is  now  in 
Chicago  with  her  daughter  Lulu,  superintending  her  musical 
education. 

Address:  Mrs.  Abbie  F.  Boyd,  4526  Oakenwald  Ave..  Chi- 
cago, 111. 


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JENNIE    W.    GODDARE 


ETTIE    M.     PARKHURST, 


SARAH    M.    SMI1  II. 


SARA  II     K.     WOODBURY. 


.1.    GERTRUDE    TILTON. 


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Ettie  M.  Parkhurst  was  born  on  May  15,  1852,  in  Boston. 
Her  parents  were  Jonathan  and  Sarah  (  Whiting)  Parkhnrst. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1867,  and  after  her  graduation  she 
taught  school  till  her  marriage  at  Groton,  Mass.,  on  June  17, 
1873.  to  Dr.  Charles  W.  Page,  a  physician,  who  has  been  an 
officer  in  the  Hartford  Retreat,  the  Connecticut  Hospital  for 
the  Insane,  and  the  Danvers  Insane  Hospital.  One  son,  Park- 
hurst, born  in  Hartford,  Conn..  July  28.  1874,  is  in  the  service 
of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  Company,  and  married  Miss 
Emma  Collins  of  Gloucester  in  1898.  Mrs.  Page  spent  most 
of  her  married  life  in  Hartford.  Conn.,  where  she  died  Feb- 
ruary 2y,  1 88 1. 

Sarah  Maria  Smith,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sally  (Robin- 
son) Smith,  was  born  in  Barre,  Mass..  August  18,  1849.  After 
her  graduation  she  taught  school  in  Rutland.  Mass.,  and  then 
for  several  years  was  Assistant  in  the  High  School  at  Barre. 
She  frequently  wrote  papers  for  church  and  school  work,  and 
was  very  active  in  all  the  departments  of  the  Unitarian  Church 
until  her  death  on  April  11.  1881. 

J.  Gertrude  Tilton  was  born  in  Holden,  Mass.,  July  18.  185 1. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Josiah  H.  and  Eliza  T.  (Emery )  Tilton. 
Her  mother's  ancestry  was  English,  and  her  great-grandfather 
on  that  side,  Joseph  Noyes  of  Haverhill,  served  as  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  Revolutionary  army.  Her  father  has  been  a  Baptist 
clergyman  for  sixty  years,  and  is  still  active  and  vigorous  at 
the  age  of  eighty-eight.  She  was  the  sister  of  Mary  Abbie 
Tilton,  an  Oread  graduate  in  the  class  of  1863. 

Gertrude  entered  the  Oread  in  1868.  and  after  her  gradua- 
tion in  1870,  taught  school  in  Orange  and  North  Uxbridge, 
Mass.,  Wolfboro,  X.  H..  and  Norton  and  Hyde  Park,  Mass. 

On  November  29,  1880.  she  was  married  to  Archibald  Mac- 
Gregor  of  Hyde  Park,  and  she  died  October  12,  1889.  at  that 
place.  She  had  three  children,  all  born  in  Hyde  Park :  Gordon 
Mercer,  born  June  9,  1882,  was  drowned  August  28,  1893 ; 
Milton  Emery,  born  September  10.  1884,  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Hyde  Park  High  School ;  Helen  Gertrude,  born  August  2<  |, 
1889,  died  December  26,  1890. 

Mr.  MacGregor  is  connected  with  the  firm  of  Raymond  & 
Whitcomb  of  Washington  St.,  Boston,  as  secretary  of  the 
company. 


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Sarah  Elizabeth  Woodbury  (  Lizzie)  was  born  July  12,  1846, 
at  Sturbridge,  Mass.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Isaac 
Woodbury  of  Hamilton,  Mass.,  and  Lucy  (Arnold)  Woodbury 
of  Woodstock,  Conn.  The  Woodbury  line  runs  back  to  Wil- 
liam and  John  Woodbury,  two  of  the  first  settlers  of  Salem 
(1629).  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1867  and  graduated  in  1870. 
After  graduation  she  taught  school  for  a  while,  and  was  mar- 
ried on  June  12,  1872,  at  Gainesville,  Fla.,  to  Leonard  G.  Dennis, 
a  Captain  in  the  Civil  War,  at  one  time  State  Representative, 
and  a  holder  of  many  minor  county  offices.  They  lived  at  dif- 
ferent periods  in  Gainesville,  Fla.,  and  at  Beverly,  Mass.  They 
had  two  sons:  Albert  W.,  born  April  11,  1873,  at  Gainesville, 
and  Leon  L.,  born  ( )ctober  16,  1875,  at  Beverly,  Mass.  Albert 
married  Harriet  Caryl  Cox  of  Abington,  Mass.,  and  is  engaged 
in  the  publishing  and  printing  business  in  Salem,  Mass.  Leon 
married  Bertha  C.  Sherman  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  is  engaged  in 
the  printing  trade  in  Boston. 

Mrs.  Dennis  died  in  Gainesville,  Fla.,  on  June  13,  i( 


CLASS   OF    1871 

Juliette   M.   Allen,    daughter  of   Willard   F.   and   Lucy   M. 

I  Flagg)  Allen,  was  born  January  1,  1852,  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

Her  father  was  born  in  Medway,  Mass.,  and  came  to  Worcester 

about  1840,  engaging  in  mercantile 
business  there  until  his  death  in  1876. 
I  ter  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Flagg  of  Worcester,  and  was 
the  sixth  in  direct  line  of  descent  from 
Thomas  Flagg,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1663.  She  is  also  descended 
from  Benjamin  Flagg,  who  served  as 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War  in  the  First  Massachusetts 
Regiment  of  Militia.  This  was  in 
1770  y^,  under  Colonel  Samuel  Denny. 
Nettie  came  to  the  *  )read   as  a   day 

pupil  in    1807,  remaining  there  until  her  graduation  in   1871. 
She    was    married    al    her    home    in    Worcester,    January    29, 


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1874,  to  John  Fish  Washburn  of  the  Photo-Electrotype  Engrav- 
ing Co.  of  New  York.     The  ceremony  was  performed  by  our 

Principal,  Mr.  Greene,  and  all  the  members  of  the  class,  except 

the  one  who  had  passed  away,  were 

present. 

Nettie  has  no  children.  For  the 
past  twenty-live  years  she  has  lived  in 
Brooklyn  and  spends  her  summers  at 
Martha's  Vineyard,  where  she  has 
a  pleasant  summer  home.  She  has 
been  for  twenty  years  actively  in- 
terested in  the  work  of  the  Lafay- 
ette Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Brooklyn,  and  has  found  plenty  of 
outside  work  in  missionary  clubs  and 
in  a  large  mission  school.  She  is  a 
D.  A.  R.  and  writes  her  share  of  historical  papers.  Mr.  Wash- 
burn has  retired  from  active  business,  and  they  are  living  a 
quiet  life  at  their  home,  184  South  Oxford  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Anna  M.  Bancroft  was  born  February  9,  1853,  in  Hopedale, 
Mass.,  in  die  house  where  she  now  lives.  Her  parents  were 
Joseph    Bubier    and    Sylvia    Willard    ( Thwing)    Bancroft,    of 


English  and  French  descent,  whose  ancestors  had  more  than 
local  prominence  in  educational  and  political  circles.  After 
graduating:    at    the    Oread    she    taught    a    short    time    in    high 


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schools.  She  has  traveled  a  good  deal  and  has  spent  a  part  of 
many  winters  in  their  Florida  home. 

She  has  been  a  Director  of  the  State  Federation  of  Woman's 
Clnbs  and  for  ten  years  was  a  member  of  the  School  Board  of 
her  town.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Worcester  County  Conference  of  Unitarian  Churches ;  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Wednesday  Morning  Club,  a  literary  club  of  Boston, 
founded  in  1869;  *s  President  of  the  Alliance,  the  charitable 
and  social  organization  of  her  church,  and  has  always  been 
a  most  interested  worker  in  the  church  and  Sunday  School. 
Her  father  presented  the  Bancroft  Memorial  Library  to  the 
town  of  Hopedale  as  a  memorial  to  her  mother,  and  she  is 
one  of  the  Trustees. 

Perhaps  .the  fact  of  greatest  interest  to  the  readers  of  this 
book  is  that  she  and  her  sister,  Alary  Bancroft  Winsor,  of  the 
class  of  1875,  suggested  the  reunion  in  1901,  out  of  which  grew 
the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute  Association.  She  was  President 
of  the  Association  until  1904. 

Address :    Hopedale,  Mass. 

Martha  Elizabeth  Burt,  daughter  of  Alfred  Ely  and  Eliza- 
beth Wilder  (Lincoln)  Burt,  was  born  in  Oakham,  Mass., 
August   8,    1846.      She   is   a   descendant   of    Thomas   Lincoln, 

who   came   from   England   in   1635, 

and  settled  in  Hingham,  Mass.,  but 

removed    later    to    Taunton.      Her 

great-grandfather,  Stephen  Lincoln, 

a    Revolutionary   soldier,    settled    in 

Oakham  in  1779,  where  he  married 

Lydia  Foster.      They  had  sixty-five 

grandchildren,  all  born  in  Oakham, 

and  nearly  all  living  to  mature  years. 

Mattie  entered  the  Oread  in  the 

spring  of   1867.      After  graduation 

she    spent    two    years,    1871-73,    at 

home,    giving    lessons    during    the 

year   1872-73  to  two  of  the  thirty 

Chinese  boys  sent  to  this  country  by  their  government  to  be 

educated   under  the  supervision  of  Yung  Wing.     In    1873-74 

she  was  a  teacher,  chiefly  of  Latin,  at  the  Oread. 


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On  July  7,  1874,  she  was  married  to  Henry  P.  Wright,  Profes- 
sor of  Latin  in  Yale  College,  and  for  the  last  twenty  years  also 
Dean  of  the  College  Faculty.  Mr.  Wright  served  in  the  Fifty- 
first  Massachusetts  Regiment  in  the 
Civil  War.  He  was  graduated  at 
Yale  in  the  class  of  1868,  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from 
Yale  in  1876,  and  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  from  Union  in  1895.  He  has 
published  an  edition  of  the  Satires 
of  Juvenal  (Ginn  &  Co.,  1901),  and 
the  Biographical  Record  of  the  Class 
of  1868,  Yale  College  (1894). 

They  have  had  four  children : 
Alice  Lincoln,  born  at  Oakham,  July 
13,  1875  ;  Henry  Burt,  born  at  Xew 
Haven,   January   29,    1877;    Alfred 

Parks,  born  at  New  Haven,  January  5,  1880,  and  Ellsworth, 
born  at  Oakham,  August  22,  1884.  Alice  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Hillhouse  High  School,  New  Haven,  and  of  Wellesley  College 
(1897),  and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  Yale  in  1901, 
after  a  course  of  graduate  study  in  English.  Henry  graduated 
from  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  and  from  Yale  in  the  class  of 
1898.  He  was  President  of  the  Yale  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  in  his  Senior  year,  and  General  Secretary  of  the 
same  for  the  three  years  following.  He  took  his  Doctor's 
degree  at  Yale  in  1903,  and  is  now  Instructor  in  Greek  and 
Latin  at  Yale.  He  was  joint  editor  with  J.  B.  Reynolds  and 
S.  H.  Fisher  of  "Two  Centuries  of  Christian  Activity  at  Yale" 
(G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1901),  and  has  published  "The  Ameri- 
can College  Course,"  an  article  in  The  Educational  Review, 
and  "The  Campaign  of  Plataea,"  his  Doctor's  thesis  (Tuttle, 
Morehouse  &  Taylor,  1904).  Alfred  graduated  from  the  Hill- 
house High  School  and  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  1901  at 
Yale,  but  died  in  his  Senior  year,  on  May  20,  about  a  month 
before  Commencement.  He  was  the  first  scholar  in  a  class  of 
two  hundred  and  fifty  members,  and  like  his  brother  was  promi- 
nent in  the  religious  work  of  the  college. 

Address:    Mrs.  H.  P.  Wright,   128  York  St..   Xew  Haven, 
Conn. 


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Ida  Elizabeth  Clark,  daughter  of  William  E.  and  Cynthia 
(  Ball)  Clark,  was  born  in  Worcester, 
March  26,  1852.  She  entered  the 
Oread  as  a  day  scholar  in   1868. 

After  graduation  she  traveled  quite 
extensively,  and  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

She  died  in  1899,  leaving  her 
mother,  to  whom  she  had  been  most 
devotedly  attached,  and  who  also 
died  about  two  years  after  Ida's 
death. 

The  address  of  her  brother,  James 
Clark,  is  800  Main  St.,  Worcester. 


Ellen  Louisa  Gilbert,  daughter  of  Peregrine  Bruce  and 
Elizabeth  Goddard  (Rice)  Gilbert,  was  born  in  Worcester, 
May  29,  1850.     She  came  to  the  Oread  as  a  day  pupil  in  1870. 

On  October  19,  1876,  Nellie  was  married  to  Charles  Emmons 


Pervear,  manager  of  the  American  Hair  Cloth  Co.,  Pawtucket, 
R.  I-  They  have  three  children,  all  born  in  Pawtucket:  Ethel 
Stevens,  born  January  31,  [879,  who  married  June  3,  mo,}, 
James  Seel  (  iill  of  Ludlow,  \'t. ;  Charles  Emmons,  Jr.,  born 
February  26,  1880,  now  engaged  in  business;  Gilbert  Goddard, 
born  February  7.   [886. 

Address:    Mrs.  Charles  E.  Pervear,  Elm  St.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 


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Abby  and  Anna  Leach,  daughters  of  Marcus  and  Eliza  Caris 
(  Bourne)  Leach,  entered  the  Oread  in  1869.  Their  father  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  shoe  manufacturers  of  Brockton  (formerly 
North  Bridge  water),  Mass. 

Abby  was  born  at  Brockton,  May  2#,  1855.  After  grad- 
uating- from  the  Oread  in  1871,  she  taught  there  several  years, 
being  Preceptress  in  1876-78.  She  afterwards  studied  at  the 
Harvard  Annex,  now  Radcliffe  College,  the  organization  of 
which  was  partly  due  to  her  taking  private  courses  with  differ- 
ent professors  at  Harvard.     As  no  degrees  were  given  at  Rad- 


cliffe at  this  time,  she  took  the  degrees  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  and 
Master  of  Arts  at  Yassar  in  1885.  She  has  been  abroad  four 
times,  and  has  spent  a  year  at  the  University  of  Leipsic.  travel- 
ing besides  in  Greece,  Italy  and  Sicily. 

She  was  made  Associate  Professor  of  Greek  at  Vassar  in 
1886.  and  full  Professor  in  1889.  She  has  been  President  of 
the  American  Philological  Association,  and  President  of  the 
Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae,  is  Chairman  of  the  Fellow- 
ship Committee  of  the  American  School  at  Athens,  and  Vice 
President  of  the  Association  of  Schools  and  Colleges  of  the 
Middle  States  and  Maryland.  She  has  been  a  frequent  con- 
tributor to  the  Philological  Journals,  and  has  given  many 
addresses  and  lectures  before  cluhs  and  schools,  several  of 
which  have  been  published. 

Home  address :    Brockton,  Mass. 

School  address:    Poughkeepsie,  X.  Y. 


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Anna  Leach,  after  leaving  the  Oread  studied  at  Wellesley 
for  a  time,  and  has  taken  summer  courses  at  Cornell.  She  has 
studied  much  privately,  and  has  been  abroad  twice.  She  was 
for  nine  years  Associate  Principal  of  Elmira  College,  Elmira, 
N.  Y.,  and  is  now  Principal  of  the  Emma  Willard  School, 
Troy,  N.  Y. 

This  school,  for  seventy-five  years  widely  known  as  the  Troy 


Female  Seminary,  was  the  pioneer  institution  for  the  higher 
education  of  women  in  this  country.  It  is  the  outgrowth  of  a 
school  founded  by  Mrs.  Emma  Willard  in  Middlebury,  Yt.,  in 
1 8 14,  and  was  established  in  Troy  in  1821. 

Home  address  :    Brockton,  Mass. 

School  address :    The  Emma  Willard  School,  Troy,  N.  Y. 


Laura  S.  Merriam,  daughter  of  Charles  Henry  and  Laura 
Smith  (Wilder)  Merriam,  was  born  in  Leominster,  Mass.,  July 
29>  J&53-  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1870.  After  graduation 
she  continued  the  study  of  French  and  German  for  a  while, 
but  devoted  her  time  especially  to  music.  She  sang  in  a  church 
choir  for  several  years. 

She  was  married  (  )ctober  30,  1889,  to  Hamilton  Mayo,  a 
graduate  <>f  Dartmouth  College.  Mr.  Mayo  is  a  lawyer,  and 
I 'resident  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Leominster.  They 
have  two  children:  Winthrop  Merriam,  horn  October  6,  1892, 
and  Esther  Wilder,  born  February  6,  [895,  both  in  Leominster. 


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.Mrs.  Mayo  was  one  of  the  first  officers  of  the  O.  C.  I.  A.,  and 
worked  most  earnestly  to  awaken  the  interest  of  the  Oreades  in 
their  Alma  Mater. 


Address:    Mrs.   Hamilton   Mayo.  44   Main   St.,  Leominster, 
Mass. 


Blanche  Alfarata  Perkins,   daughter  of   Captain   Benjamin 
Warren  and  Anna  Brigham   (Sweetser)   Perkins,  was  born  in 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  July  2,   1850.     Her  father  was  a  sea  captain, 
and  later  a  Major  in  the  Civil  War. 
He  was  a  native  of  Princeton,  Mass., 
and    the    son    of    Jesse    and    Mary 
(Rice)    Perkins.      He  died  October 
30,    1862,   at   Baltimore,    Md.      Her 
mother    was    a    native    of    Paxton, 
Mass.       She     died     in     Worcester, 
August   19,   1879. 

Blanche  came  to  the  Oread  in 
1868.  After  graduation  she  taught 
for  a  few  weeks  in  Chicago,  but 
failing  health  compelled  her  to  re- 
turn to  Worcester,  where  she  died 
June  6,  1872,  at  the  home  of  her  cousin,  Mr.  Albert  Buttrick. 

Lizzie  Thurber,  who  was  perhaps  her  most  intimate  friend, 
has  paid  the  following  tribute  to  her  memory :  "Blanche  was 
lovely  in  person  as  in  character.     Her  sweet,  expressive  face, 


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about  which  clustered  graceful  curls  of  soft  auburn  hair, 
mirrored  the  thoughts  and  emotions  of  her  pure  mind.  She 
was  endowed  with  rare  poetic  talent,  an  artist's  appreciation  of 
the  beautiful,  and  an  unusual  aptitude  for  acquiring  knowledge. 
She  was  refined,  gentle  and  affectionate.  United  to  her  many 
winning  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  was  an  unwavering  stead- 
fastness of  purpose.  She  was  impelled  to  intense  application 
in  her  studies  by  the  desire  to  be  thoroughly  qualified  for  her 
chosen  profession,  that  she  might  the  sooner  be  in  a  position  to 
provide  for  her  widowed  mother  in  her  declining  years. 

"Shortly  after  her  graduation  she  obtained  a  position  as 
teacher  in  the  city  of  Chicago.  But  her  health,  always  fragile, 
had  been  seriously  impaired  by  her  previous  application  while 
a  student,  and  after  a  few  weeks  of  brave  struggling  she 
returned  to  Worcester  with  but  slight  hope  of  recovery.  Not- 
withstanding her  hearty  enjoyment  of  life  and  her  intense  devo- 
tion to  her  mother  she  meekly  and  cheerfully  submitted  to  the 
will  of  her  Heavenly  Father,  realizing  beneath  her  the  'ever- 
lasting arms,'  as  she  wrote  to  a  distant  friend  during  her 
painful  illness. 

"Among  the  sorrowing  friends  gathered  about  her  casket 
were  several  dear  old  ladies,  telling  with  deep  feeling  of  her 
loving  ministrations.  She  had  found  time  amid  her  manifold 
duties  to  visit  them,  to  read  to  them  and  to  cheer  their  lonely 
lives  by  her  ready  sympathy  and  welcome  presence." 

In  two  lines  of  the  parting  song  which  Blanche  wrote  for 
the  commencement  in  1871,  she  unconsciously  struck  the  key- 
note of  her  own  beautiful  character, — 

"To  love  and  to  bless,  this  is  woman's  sweet  task 
In  a  world  of  discomfort  and  strife." 


Alice  Harriette  Starr,  daughter  of  Hon.  Parley  and  Clarissa 
(Blanchard)  Starr,  was  born  March  14,  1850,  in  Jacksonville, 
Vt.,  being  the  ninth  in  descent  from  Dr.  Comfort  Starr,  who 
came  to  America  from  Ashford,  Kent  County,  England,  in 
1635.  Her  father  was  elected  to  the  Vermont  Legislature  in 
1853,  1856  and  1872,  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in 
i860,  Justice  of  Windham  County  for  eleven  years.  Trustee  of 
a  savings  bank   for  five  years  and   Director  in  the  Brattleboro, 


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Vermont,  National  Bank  for  seventeen  years.  In  1862  he 
opened  a  recruiting  office  for  volunteers  for  the  Civil  War, 
and  was  appointed  State  Agent  to  look  after  and  provide  for 
the  families  of  soldiers  absent  in  the  war.  In  1875  ne  obtained 
the  charter  for  the  Peoples'  National  Bank  of  Brattleboro,  and 
was  its  President  until  1888,  when  his  health  failed  and  he  gave 
up  active  work.  For  many  years  he  was  an  officer  in  the 
Universalist  Church,  of  which  he  was  a  helpful  member.  He 
died  November   12,   1889. 

Alice    entered    the    Oread    in    1869.      After   graduation    she 
taught  one  term  in  Whitingham,  one  vear  in  Brattleboro,  and 


one  year  in  Shelburne  Falls,  Mass.  She  was  very  fond  of  chil- 
dren and  taught  for  the  love  of  the  work,  being  very  successful 
as  a  teacher. 

She  was  married  September  19,  1876,  to  William  A.  Faulkner 
of  Whitingham,  Vt.,  who  was  then  a  Teller,  but  afterwards 
Cashier  of  the  Peoples'  National  Bank  of  Brattleboro.  After 
living  a  few  years  in  Brattleboro,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Faulkner 
removed  to  Brookline,  Mass..  where  Mr.  Faulkner  became 
Cashier  in  the  National  Hide  and  Leather  Bank  in  Boston.  He 
was  afterwards  President  of  a  bank  in  Boston. 

Alice  had  a  sweet  voice,  and  was  a  member  of  a  church  quar- 
tet in  Brattleboro  for  some  years.  She  died  after  an  illness  of 
three  weeks  of  pneumonia,  combined  with  a  rheumatic  trouble 
of  the  throat,  on  March  31,  1891.  Mrs.  Starr,  her  mother,  still 
lives  at  2"j  Western  Ave.,  Brattleboro,  Yt. 


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Ida  Eliza  Stratton,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Eliza  (Curtis) 
Stratton,  was  born  in  Worcester,  March  23,  1852,  and  entered 
the  Oread  in  1867. 

After  graduation  it  was  her  privilege,  as  well  as  duty,  to 
remain  at  home  assisting  in  the  care  of  her  invalid  mother. 
Mrs.  Stratton  died  in  1886,  leaving  Ida  alone  with  her  aged 
father.     On  January  7,   1896  she  was  married  to  Charles  W. 


Lassell  of  Worcester,  who  is  in  the  tin  and  sheet  iron  business. 
Ida  still  cares  for  her  father,  who  is  over  ninety  years  old. 
She  writes :  "I  have  no  children  here,  but  one  little  angel  boy 
up  yonder." 

Address :    Mrs.  Charles  W.  Lassell,  10  King  St.,  Worcester. 


CLASS   OF    1872 

Martha  A.  Church  was  born  in  Morristown,  N.  Y.,  January 
10,  1850.  Her  father,  Daniel  Church,  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  Richard  Church,  one  of  the  founders  of  Hartford,  and  of 
John  Whipple  of  Dorchester  and  Providence.  Her  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Harriet  Law,  was  connected  with  many 
well-known  early  families  of  eastern  Massachusetts. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1871,  and  graduated  in  1872. 
She  was  married  to  Gerrit  Smith  Conger,  a  lawyer,  Novem- 
ber 6,    1873,   at   Wegatchie,   N.   Y.     Her   son,   Alger   Adams, 


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born  June  5,  1875,  in  Gouverneur,  N.  Y.,  was  graduated  from 
Cornell  University  as  Civil  Engineer  in  1897,  and  married 
Kathleen  L.   Noble,   October  23,    1902.     Her   daughter,   Mary 


Hay  ward  Church,  born  in  Gouverneur,  April  15,  1879,  was 
educated  in  the  schools  at  home  and  at  St.  Agnes'  School  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

x\ddress :    Mrs.  G.  S.  Conger,  Gouverneur,  N.  Y. 


Abbie  S.  Davis  entered  the  Oread 
in  1868,  and  graduated  in  1872  as 
Valedictorian  of  her  class. 

In  the  years  1872-73  and  1874-75 
she  took  graduate  work  at  the  Oread, 
and  in  1879-81  was  teacher  of  the 
Academic  branches  there.  She  is 
now  Assistant  Librarian  at  the  Wor- 
cester Court  House. 

Her  present  address  is  14  Lincoln 
Square,  Worcester. 


Sarah  L.  Merrill  was  born  in  Groton,  N.  H.,  July  30,  1850. 
Her  mother's  maiden  name  was  Lucy  Kidder,  and  her  father 
was  Jesse  Merrill,  whose  ancestor,  Nathaniel  Merrill,  came 
from  England  to  Newburyport  in  1633. 


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After  graduation  she  taught  for  one  year  at  the  Oread.  Since 
then  she  has  spent  most  of  her  time  teaching  private  pupils 
and  as  special  teacher  of  French.      For  three  years  she  was 


nurse  and  housekeeper  for  her  parents.      She  has  written,  for 
publication  in  newspapers,  letters  from  Mexico,  New  Mexico, 
California,  Paris  and  Porto  Rico,  giving  personal  experiences. 
Address :    Mayagfiiez,  Porto  Rico. 


Lula  M.  Sly,  daughter  of  Amos  T.  and  Adaline  A.  (Aldrich) 
Sly,    was    born    January    n,    1854,    at    Webster,    Mass.      She 


attended    the   <  >read    one   year,    1871-72.      May    14.    1878.   at 
Webster,  die  was  married  i<>  Dr.  Marshall  F.  Lindsey,  who  died 


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in  1898.  Her  one  son,  Xorman  M.,  was  born  in  Athol,  Mass., 
March  22,  1SS4.  ami  since  leaving  the  High  School  has  been 
a  student  at  the  Eric  Pope  School  of  Art  in  Boston. 

Mrs.  Lindsey  has  been  engaged  in  music  teaching  and  choir 
work. 

Address:    Mrs.  Lnla  M.  Lindsev,  222  Main  St..  Athol,  Mass. 


Ella  Maria  Williams  was  born  in  Worcester.  July  24,  1849. 
Through  both  her  father  and  mother,  James  and  Maria  (Cutler) 
Williams,  she  is  entitled  to  membership  in  the  D.  A.  R.     Her 

parents  were  of  English  descent. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1870,  and 
after  her  graduation  in  1872  she 
taught  for  a  while.  In  1876  she  was 
graduated  from  the  School  of  Ora- 
tor}', Boston  University. 

On  June  9,  1879,  at  Shrewsbury, 
Mass.,  she  was  married  to  David  L. 
Eiske,  a  farmer  and  a  real  estate 
and  insurance  agent.  They  have  three 
daughters :  Mavida,  born  May  24, 
1880,  graduated  from  Smith  College 
in  KJ03.  her  specialty  being  music  and 
English ;  Rebecca  Cutler,  born  Jan- 
uary 12.  1882,  is  in  the  class  of 
1905  in  Tufts  College,  Medical  De- 
partment :  Georgiana  Keith,  born 
October  2j,  1885,  is  at  YYellesley 
College. 

When  Ella  was  a  teacher  she 
held  positions  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass., 
Fort  Wayne.  Ind..  North  Grafton. 
Ma^.,  and  Boston.  She  also  gave 
private  instruction  in  Elocution,  and 
has  been  a  public  reader.  At  the 
present  time  she  is  an  active  church 
worker,   and   is  especially  interested 

in  the  North  End  Mission.     She  has  written  for  farm,  grange, 
and  religious  papers,  and  for  children's  magazines. 
Address:    Mrs.  David  E.  Fiske,  Grafton,  Mass. 
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Mary  C.  E.  Bagley,  the  daughter 
of  Mr.  N.  G.  Bagley,  was  born 
March  4,  1853,  and  came  to  the 
Oread  from  Winchendon,  Mass., 
about  a  year  before  she  graduated. 
After  graduation  she  engaged  in 
teaching,  and  died  in  Boston,  No- 
vember 20,  1885,  of  consumption. 
She  is  buried  in  Winchendon. 


Josie  E.  Brown,  the  daughter  of 
Jonas  and  Elvira  (Goodell)  Brown, 
was  born  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  in  1845. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1869,  and 
was  graduated  in  1873. 

In  Wilkinsonville,  Mass.,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1880,  she  was  married  to 
C.  F.  Taft,  and  had  two  children, 
a  son,  J.  Frank,  and  a  daughter, 
Ruth  E. 

Her  home  was  in  Millbury  until 
her  death.     She  died  May  19,  1904. 


Lizzie  A.  Flagg,  daughter  of  David  Flagg  of  West  Boylston, 
Mass.,  and  his  wife,  Sophia  E.  Haynes  of  Worcester,  was  born 
January  6,  1852,  at  Worcester.  Her  mother  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  Joseph  Haynes  of  Brimfield,  Mass.,  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  John  Haynes,  who  came  over  from  England  in  1638 
in  the  ship  Confidence,  and  was  one  of  the  first  proprietors  of 
the  land  upon  which  the  city  of  Worcester  now  stands.  Ben- 
jamin Haynes,  grandfather  of  Joseph  Haynes,  served  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution.  Dinah  Hitchcock  of  Springfield,  Mass., 
wife  of  Joseph  Haynes,  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Ame  Wyllys, 
daughter  of  Governor  George  Wyllys  of  Hartford. 

Miss  Flagg  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  1869  to  1873. 
After  her  graduation  she  studied  music,  painting  and  French. 


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She  gave  lessons  in  music  and  painting  and  taught  a  private 
school  for  two  years. 

On  December  1,  1885,  she  was  married  at  Pawtucket,  R.  I., 
to  Herbert  E.  Thayer,  a  brush  manufacturer.     Their  only  child, 


Ellis  Haynes,  was  born  June  7,  1887.  He  will  graduate  from 
the  Pawtucket  High  School  in  the  class  of  1905,  and  will  enter 
Brown  University  the  following  September. 

Address :    Mrs.  Herbert  E.  Thayer,  58  Underwood  St.,  Paw- 
tucket. R.  I. 


Ellen  Caroline  Hammond  was  born  in  Worcester.  January 
12,  1853,  and  died  in  the  same  city  ^-s 

March  21,  1900.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Elijah  and  Caroline 
Nye  (Felton)  Hammond.  The  first 
ancestor  (Hammond)  who  came  to 
this  country  was  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Penn  Hammond,  a  sister  of  the 
Admiral.  Sir  William  Penn,  and  an 
aunt  of  William  Penn  the  Quaker. 
Ellen's  great-grandfather.  Elijah 
Hammond,  was  private  secretary 
to  General  Washington  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War.  He  also  served  in 
that  war  as  Sergeant  in  the  Fifth  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
and  received  his  discharge  signed  by  General  Washington,  an 
unusual  honor,  which  speaks  of  his  "faithful  and  honorable 
service  five  years  and  upwards." 


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Ellen  was  a  teacher  of  English  and  Latin,  was  fond  of  art 
and  literature,  using  her  brush  and  pen  for  the  pleasure  of  her 
friends,  and  proving  herself  an  artist  of  more  than  ordinary 
ability. 

Mary  Evalyn  Howe  (  "Eva  Howe"),  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
G.  and  Rhoda  A.  (Richards)  Howe,  was  born  in  Westboro, 
Mass.,  January  5,  1851.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  Septem- 
ber,  1870,  to  June,   1873. 

After  graduation  she  spent  six 
years  as  a  teacher  and  one  at  home, 
and  was  married  June  5,  1880,  at 
Norwich,  Conn.,  to  Rev.  Wilbur 
Fisk  Holmes,  a  minister  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Mr. 
Holmes  received  from  Wesleyan 
University  the  degree  of  B.A.  in 
1880,  and  the  degree  of  M.A.  in 
1883.  They  have  three  children: 
Samuel  Foss,  born  March  9,  1881, 
at  Portland  West  End,  Me. ;  Henry 
Alfred,  born  August  15,  1883,  at  Alfred,  Me.;  and  Bessie 
Evalyn,  born  February  24,  1888,  at  South  Paris,  Me.  Samuel 
is  a  member  of  the  class  of  1904,  and  Henry  of  the  class  of 
1905  at  Wesleyan  University.  Bessie  belongs  to  the  class  of 
1905  in  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary  and  Woman's  College 
at  Kent's  Hill,  Me. 

Address:   Mrs.  Wilbur  F.  Holmes,  Box  125,  Kennebunk,  Me. 

Harriette  Merrifield,  the  daughter  of  William  Trowbridge 
Merrifield  and  his  wife,  Maria  Caroline  Brigham,  was  born 
in  Worcester,  Mass.,  October  22,  1856.  Her  great-grand- 
fathers, Timothy  Merrifield,  and  William  Trowbridge,  were 
soldiers  of  the  Revolution.  Her  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Captain  Charles  Brigham  of   Brigham  Hill,  Grafton,   Mass. 

She  entered  the  preparatory  department  of  the  Oread  in 
1867,  and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1873.  On  February 
5,  1884,  she  was  married  in  Worcester  to  William  Trowbridge 
Forbes,  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  of  Worcester  County. 
Their  children  are:   William  Trowbridge  Merrifield,  born  April 


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23,  1885,  now  at  Amherst  College;  Allan  White,  horn  June  20, 
1886,  a  pupil  in  the  Worcester  High  School ;  Cornelia  Brig-ham. 
born  July  14,  1888;  Katharine  Maria,  born  September  23, 
1889;    Esther  Louise,  born  June  28.   1891  :    Malcolm  Stewart. 


born  November  22,  1892,  who  died  in  infancy.  The  three 
daughters  are  attending  the  Bancroft  School  in  Worcester. 

Mrs.  Forbes  is  Regent  of  the  Colonel  Timothy  Bigelow  Chap- 
ter of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution.  She  has 
written  for  publication  "The  Hundredth  Town,"  and  "Two 
Indian  Chiefs,"  and  has  edited  the  "Diary  of  Rev.  Ebenezer 
Parkman." 

Address :  Mrs.  William  T.  Forbes,  23  Trowbridge  Road, 
W<  >rcester,  Mass. 


Maria  Josephine  Merrifield,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Trowbridge  and  Maria 
Caroline  ( Brigham )  Merrifield,  was 
born  July  9,  1854.  in  Worcester. 

She  was  Hattie's  sister,  and  at- 
tended the  Oread  with  her  from  1867 
till  1873. 

She  died  September  26,   1878. 


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M.    Estelle    Miller,    daughter   of   Edwin    B.   and    Lydia   A. 

(Hardy)  Miller,  was  born  in  Woon- 
socket, R.  I.,  August  29,  1852,  and 
attended  the  Oread  from  September, 
1 87 1,  to  June,  1873. 

She  was  married  November  10, 
1875,  m  Woonsocket,  to  Francis  S. 
Weeks,  dealer  in  house  furnishing 
goods.  They  had  one  child,  Hazel, 
born  March  6,  1883,  who  died  March 
6,  1883. 

Mrs.  Weeks  has  been  actively  in- 
terested in  local  charities. 

Address :  Mrs.  Francis  S.  Weeks, 
2j  Prospect  St.,  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 


Abbie  L.  Rice  was  born  July  5, 
1853,  at  Auburn,  Mass..  and  was 
the  daughter  of  Ezra  and  Luthera 
(Knowlton)  Rice.  She  taught  school 
in  Auburn  for  a  number  of  years 
after  graduating  from  the  Oread, 
and  was  married  May  14,  1885.  at 
Auburn,  to  S.  A.  Sinnicks,  a  farmer. 
They  had  no  children. 

Mrs.  Sinnicks  died  August  8,  1892, 
at  Worcester. 


Emma  R.  Ross,  daughter  of  Isaac  Newton  and  Maria 
(Wright)  Ross,  was  born  August  23,  1854,  in  Darbyville,  Ohio. 
The  Ross  family  is  of  Scotch  descent.  Her  great-grandfather 
when  but  sixteen  years  of  age  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of 
the  Revolution.  Her  grandfather,  Isaac  Ross,  was  prominent 
in  political  life  in  New  Hampshire  for  many  years,  and  lost 
the  nomination  for  governor  of  the  state  by  one  vote,  because 
he  would  not  vote  for  slavery.  Her  father  served  in  the  legis- 
latures of  Massachusetts  and  Ohio.  He  raised  two  regiments 
for  the  Civil  War,  and  was  Colonel  of  the  90th  Ohio.  On  her 
mother's  side  she  is  related  to  General  Warren  of  Revolutionary 
fame,  and  her  great-grandfather  Wright  gave  the  land  for 
Dartmouth  College. 


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She  has  been  a  very  active  woman.  After  her  five  or  six 
years  at  the  Oread,  she  spent  a  year 
at  Yassar  and  one  at  Wellesley,  and 
took  a  course  at  a  business  college. 
She  taught  in  public  schools,  car- 
ried on  general  typewriting  and  a 
school  of  shorthand  in  Haverhill  for 
ten  years,  and  was  for  five  years 
National  Secretary  of  the  Young 
People's  Religious  Union  of  the 
Unitarian  denomination,  a  task  re- 
quiring executive  ability,  much  edi- 
torial work,  and  public  speaking. 
She  went  to  the  Philippines  by  trans- 
port Buford  in  August,  1901,  by  special  appointment  as  Super- 
visor of  Sewing,  but  was  never  put  to  work.  She  was  in  charge 
of  the  Women's  exhibits  from  the  Philippines  for  the  World's 
Fair  at  St.  Louis.  She  has  worked  heartily  with  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.,  and  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps.  She  was  the  first 
woman  elected  on  the  School  Board  in  Holden,  and  in  Haver- 
hill it  was  said  of  her,  "She  is  one  whose  coming  makes  richer, 
whose  going  makes  poorer  a  city."  She  had  charge,  at  one 
time,  of  a  department  in  the  Christian  Register  (Unitarian), 
and  has  constantly  written  for  papers,  and  made  many  public 
addresses.  She  has  recently  written  for  the  Popular  Educator 
letters  from  the  Philippines,  concerning  child  life  there. 

Her  present  address  is:    P.  O.  Box  615,  Manila,  P.  L,  U.  S. 


Nellie  Amanda  Sprout  was  born 
in  1850  at  Enfield,  Mass.,  the 
daughter  of  Bradford  and  Lucia 
(  Train)  Sprout.  She  attended  the 
Oread  from  1869  to  1873,  and 
taught  for  six  years  after  grad- 
uation in  the  public  schools  of  Wor- 
cester. 

She  was  married  in  that  city, 
February  20.  1879,  to  W.  P.  Beech- 
ing.  a  teacher  of  Natural  History. 
She  has  four  children :  William 
P.,   Jr.,   born   June    14,    1881,   now 


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a  printer;  Charles  Train,  born  in  Sterling,  111.,  July  3,  1884, 
now  traveling  abroad ;  Roland  Bradford,  born  in  Sterling,  July 
24,  1885,  now  in  the  Worcester  High  School ;  and  a  daughter, 
Carol  Ellen,  born  in  Worcester,  May  3,  1891,  and  still  in  school. 
Address :  Mrs.  W.  P.  Beeching,  36  Irving  St.,  Worcester, 
Mass. 

S.   Lizzie  Wedge  was  born  in  Wilkinsonville,   Mass.,   May 

1,   1853.     Her  father,  Newell  Wredge  (Amherst  1848),  taught 

private  schools  before  the  establishment  of  high  schools,  and 

...r  afterwards    was    for   many   years    a 

high    school    principal    at    Oxford, 

Mass.,   and  at  Ripley,   N.  Y.      Her 

mother,     Sarah    Elizabeth    Armsby, 

was  a  pupil  in  Mr.  Wedge's  school. 

and  after  her  marriage  assisted  him 

in  his  work. 

Miss  Wedge  inherited  her  parents' 
love  of  teaching,  and  in  September 
after  her  graduation  from  the  Oread 
she  began  her  work  in  the  Worces- 
ter public  schools.  She  taught  con- 
tinuously for  thirty  years,  nine  years 
in  Worcester,  nine  years  in  a  private  family  in  Holyoke,  Mass., 
a  year  in  Rutland,  Mass.,  three  years  in  Wilkinsonville,  and 
eight  years  in  the  Sutton  High  School.  On  June  30,  1903, 
in  Sutton,  she  was  married  to  David  Wells,  a  mechanic. 
Address :    Mrs.  David  Wells,  Wilkinsonville,  Mass. 

Minnie  A.  Wedge,  daughter  of  Newell  and  Sarah  E. 
(Armsby)  Wedge,  was  born  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  January  23, 
1855.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she  attended  the  Massachu- 
setts State  Normal  School  one  year,  after  which  she  taught  in 
the  public  schools  of  Sutton. 

She  has  been  twice  married,  first  to  Henry  Hall  King  in 
1879,  at  Sutton.  He  died  in  1885,  leaving  two  children  :  Fayette 
Armsby,  born  in  1883,  now  with  the  H.  B.  Smith  Heating  Com- 
pany at  Westfield,  Mass.,  and  Henry  Hall,  born  in  1885.  I"  l&&7 
she  was  again  married  to  Walter  A.  Wheeler,  at  Sutton.  He 
was  a  State  Officer  and  Superintendent  of  Lyman  School  Pro- 


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bationers,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Legislature  and  Super- 
intendent of  State  Primary  Schools.  The  children  by  this 
marriage  are:  Merrick  Wedge,  born  in  1888,  died  in  1889; 
Merrill  Halladay,  born  in  1891  ;   Elizabeth,  born  in  1900.     Fay- 


ette and  Henry  graduated  from  Murdock  Academy  in  June, 
1903,  and  Henry  has  entered  Amherst  College.  Merrill 
attends  the  public  schools  of  Rutland,  Mass. 

Mr.  Wheeler's  children  by  a  former  marriage  are :  Herbert 
W..  born  in  1873.  employed  at  the  Union  Station  of  the  Boston 
&  Maine  Railroad;  Arthur  Clifford,  born  in  1878,  a  farmer  in 
Rutland;    Chester  A.,  born  in  1884. 

From  1892  to  1895  Mrs.  Wheeler  was  Matron  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  Primary  School  at  Monson.  She  has  written  a 
few  short  poems,  published  in  weekly  or  monthly  papers. 

Address :    Mrs.  Walter  A.  Wheeler,  Rutland,  Mass. 


CLASS   OF    1874 

Mary  S.  Eaton,  daughter  of  Sumner  and  Martha  S.  (Brown) 
Eaton,  both  of  English  descent,  was  born  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass., 
August  29,  1856.  Her  maternal  ancestors,  the  Tolmans,  came 
to  America  about  1630,  and  later  were  pioneer  settlers  at  Gar- 
diner, Me. 

Mary  entered  the  Oread  in  1870,  and  was  graduated  in  1874. 
She  then  taught  eleven  years  in  the  public  schools  of  Worces- 
ter, interrupted  by  one  year  of  rest.  In  1886  she  went  to 
Philadelphia,  where  she  taught  for  ten  years  in  the  Hamilton 


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School,  a  private  school  for  boys.     Later  she  was  a  teacher  at 
Hampton,  Va.,  after  which  she  spent  a  few  months  at  the  Battle 


Creek  Sanitarium,  and  has  since  lived  in  Battle  Creek. 
Address :    32  Manchester  St.,  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 

Mary  Emma  Reed  was  the  daughter  of  D wight  and  Susan- 
nah  (Vaughan)   Reed.      Her  home  has  always  been  in  Wor- 


cester, though  she  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Mass.     She  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1873-74. 

Her  father  was  the  founder  of  the  Young  Women's  Christian 
Association  in  Worcester.  The  first  meeting  was  held  in  his 
parlor,  the  first  thousand  dollars  subscribed  for  its  support  was 
given  by  him,  and  he  left  a  large  sum  of  money  in  his  will  for 


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the  benefit  of  the  association.  Miss  Reed  was  a  member  of  its 
Executive  Board  for  several  years.  She  resigned  this  position 
a  few  years  ago,  but  she  writes,  "the  association  will  always 
be  dear  to  my  heart,  as  my  father  was  so  deeply  interested  in 
it."  Miss  Reed  is  a  proficient  musician. 
Address :    6  Silver  St.,  Worcester. 


Emma  C.  Sargeant  was  born  in  Chester,  Vt.,  August  8, 
1 84 1.  After  her  graduation  at  the  Oread  in  1874,  she  taught 
in  Miss  Meeker's  Young  Ladies'  Seminary,  Norwich,  Conn. 
In  1880  she  purchased,  with  her 
sisters,  a  young  ladies'  school  in 
Elizabeth,  X.  J.,  of  which  she  was 
the  Principal  for  eleven  years.  She 
then  returned  to  her  home  in  Ches- 
ter. She  has  been  for  several  years 
Superintendent  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Sunday  School  in  Chester, 
is  much  interested  in  public  schools, 
belongs  to  the  Chester  Review 
Club,  is  Chairman  of  the  Educa- 
tional Committee,  and  is  generally 
interested  in  missions  and  church 
work. 

Miss  Sargeant's  father  was  Phineas  Osgood  Sargeant.  She 
traces  her  paternal  ancestry  back  for  eight  generations  to  Hugh 
Sargeant  of  England,  who  married  into  the  family  of  the  Duke 
and  Duchess  of  Buckingham.  Her  mother  was  Mary  Carter 
Duncan,  and  her  eighth  great-grandfather,  Rev.  Thomas  Carter 
of  England,  was  ordained  in  1642  pastor  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  in  YVoburn,  Mass.  Her  mother's  father, 
Charles  Duncan,  traced  his  ancestry  to  the  Duncans  of  Scot- 
land. Her  great-grandfather,  Benjamin  Blaney,  took  an  active 
part  on  the  side  of  the  Americans  during  the  Revolutionarv 
War,  although  he  came  to  this  country  as  an  officer  in  the 
British  army.  He  became  convinced  of  the  justice  of  the 
American  cause  and  offered  his  services  to  General  Washing- 
ton, who  immediately  gave  him  the  same  rank  in  the  American 
army.  This  he  held  through  the  whole  war,  refusing  promotion 
or  pay,  while  from  his  own  private  purse  he  clothed  his  own 


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soldiers  and  supported  them  through  months  of  hardship  and 
privation,  not  forgetting  them  even  after  the  close  of  the  war, 
when  so  many  soldiers  were  discharged,  broken  in  health,  and 
Congress  was  too  poor  to  pay  the  smallest  pittance  for  their 
faithful  services. 

Address:    Chester,  Vt. 

Ellen  Luetta  Tuck  entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  1873, 
and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1874.  Her  father's  name 
was  Eben  Baker  Tuck,  and  her  mother's  Lydia  Smith  Frye. 

Thomas  Tuck,  the  first  of  the  name 
in  this  country,  came  from  England, 
and  his  name  appears  in  the  Town 
Records  of  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1636. 
He  afterwards  removed  to  Beverly, 
and  later  we  find  his  descendants 
prominent  in  the  history  of  Manches- 
ter-by-the-Sea.  Capt.  William  Tuck, 
grandfather  of  Eben,  was  captain  of 
several  vessels,  among  them  a  priva- 
teer, which  made  two  voyages  to  Bil- 
boa  for  powder  in  1775  and  1776,  and 
also  captured  many  prizes  during  the 
war.  He  was  one  of  the  first  "Com- 
mittee of  Safety"  of  Manchester,  and  a  delegate  to  the  first 
County  Convention  held  in  Ipswich.  In  1794  he  was  commis- 
sioned by  Washington  Collector  of  Customs  for  the  Gloucester 
District,  and  held  this  position  for  many  years. 

Lydia  Smith  F  rye's  ancestors  also  came  from  England.  They 
were  among  the  first  settlers  of  the  town  of  Andover,  Mass.. 
and  later  removed  to  Royalston,  where  lived  her  ancestor.  Cap- 
tain John  Frye,  who  was  an  officer  in  the  Colonial  Wars. 

Ellen  E.  Tuck  was  born  in  Milford,  X.  H.,  August  9,  1855. 
Alter  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  for  three  years  as  Assistant 
in  the  Nashua,  X.  H.,  High  School,  and  on  March  10,  1880, 
was  married  to  John  McLane  of  Milford,  a  manufacturer  of 
post  office  equipments,  and  one  of  the  prominent  business  men 
of  the  town.  Me  has  represented  his  town  in  the  State  Leg- 
islature, having  served  two  terms  each  in  the  House  and  Sen- 
ate, and  being  President  of  the  Senate  both  terms.  He  is  at 
present  Governor  of  the  State  of  Xew  Hampshire.     They  have 


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four  children:  Clinton  Averill,  born  April  7,  1881 ,  was  fitted 
for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  X.  II.,  and  was  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  College  in  the 
class  of  1903 ;  Hazel  Ellen,  born 
January  9,  1885.  graduated  from  the 
[Milford  High  School,  and  is  now  at 
the  Baldwin  School  at  Bryn  Mawr, 
Pa.,  fitting  for  Bryn  Mawr  College; 
John  Roy,  born  January  7.  1886,  pre- 
pared for  college  at  the  St.  Paul's 
School,  and  is  now  in  the  class  of 
1907,  Dartmouth  College ;  Charles 
[Malcolm,  born  June  7,  1895,  is  now 
at  school  in  [Milford. 

Mrs.  McLane  was  one  of  the  Hon- 
orary Woman  [Managers  of  the  Buffalo  Exposition,  and  is  a 
charter  member  of  the  Milford  Woman's  Club,  having  served 
two  years  as  its  Secretary,  and  two  years  as  its  President.  She 
is  a  member  of  Xew  Hampshire's  Daughters,  and  has  been  an 
officer  of  the  State  Federation.  At  present  she  is  Regent  in  the 
[Milford  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 
Address :    [Mrs.  John  [McLane,  [Milford,  N.  H. 


CLASS   OF    1875 

Abbie  Frances  Baker  was  born  [March  17,  1855,  at  Wickford, 
R.  I.  She  was  the  daughter  of  David 
Sherman  and  Mary  Cahoone  (Waite  ) 
Baker.  She  entered  the  Oread  in 
1872.  In  1876  she  was  married  to 
Edmund  F.  Merriam,  D.D..  who. 
after  some  years  of  preaching,  lie- 
came  editor  of  the  Watchman,  a 
Baptist  weekly,  published  in  Boston. 
To  them  have  been  Ik  am  two  daugh- 
ters. Ida  Frances,  who  graduated 
from  Wellesley  College  in  igoo,  and 
Mary    Waite.    who    lived    but    one 


year. 

Address 


Mrs.  Edmund  F.  [Merriam 


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Mary  G.  Bancroft,  daughter  of  Joseph  B.  and  Sylvia  Willard 
(Thwing)  Bancroft,  was  born  in  Hopedale,  Mass.,  December 
2,  1856.     She  entered  the  Oread  in  1874,  and  left  at  the  end 

of  the  school  year  in  1875. 

On  October  4,  1876,  at  Hope- 
dale,  she  was  married  to  Walter 
Pellington  Winsor,  President  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  New  Bed- 
ford, Mass.  Their  four  children 
were  born  in  Fairhaven,  Mass. : 
Walter  Pellington,  Jr.,  born  April 
20,  1879,  graduated  from  Harvard 
University  in  the  class  of  1899, 
studied  abroad  two  years,  and  is 
now  in  the  Harvard  Law  School ; 
Anna  Bancroft,  born  May  22,  1881, 
was  educated  at  the  Ouincy  Mansion 
Wheeler's 
School  for  Young  Ladies  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  finishing  with  a  few 
months  of  travel  abroad ;  Bancroft, 
born  June  26,  1889,  and  Allen,  born 
February  12,  1892,  attend  home 
schools. 

Mrs.  Winsor  is  President  of  the 
Charitable  Society  of  Fairhaven,  a 
Director  of  the  Day  Nursery  in  New 
Bedford,  a  member  of  the  Wednes- 
day Morning  Club  in  Boston,  and 
a  Director  of  the  Unitarian  Sun- 
day School  Society.  She  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Oread  Collegiate  Institute  Association. 

Address:    Mrs.  Walter  P.  Winsor,  Fairhaven,  Mass. 


School,     and     at     Miss 


Emilie  F.  Goulding  entered  the  Oread  in  the  spring  of  1873. 
Her  father  was  Ephraim  Goulding,  son  of  Captain  Ephraim 
Goulding  of  Grafton,  Mass.,  and  grandson  of  Colonel  John 
Goulding.  Her  mother  was  Emily  Carter,  granddaughter  of 
Joshua  Carter,  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

Emilie  was  born  at  West  Millbury,  Mass.,  on  March  29, 
1847.      After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  part  of  the  time 


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until  1880,  when  she  went  to  Alton,  111.,  to  keep  house  for  her 
brother  and  care  for  his  two  little  boys.  Here  she  remained 
six  years.  She  has  lectured  on  Equal  Suffrage,  has  taught 
schools  in  four  states  and  eleven 
towns,  and  engaged  in  various  occu- 
pations. For  several  years  she  has 
been  a  nurse. 

On  December  26,  1895,  she  was 
married  at  her  home  in  West  Mill- 
bury,  in  the  same  room  where  her 
mother  was  married,  and  where  she 
herself  was  born,  to  Adelbert  L. 
Allen,  a  farmer.  Mr.  Allen  was  a 
member  of  Company  I,  16th  Ver- 
mont  Regiment,   in   the    Civil   War. 

Mrs.  Allen  is  correspondent  for 
the  Millbury  Journal.  She  has  also  written  articles  for  the 
Webster  Times,  the  Woonsocket  Patriot,  the  Boston  Globe,  the 
New  England  Farmer,  and  the  Worcester  Evening  Gazette. 

Address:    Mrs.  A.  L.  Allen,  West  Millbury,  Mass. 

Abbie  Frances  Green  was  born  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  October 
22,  1854.  Her  parents  were  Ezra  and  Elmira  (Richardson) 
Green,  both  of  English  descent,  their  ancestors  being  among 


the  earliest  settlers  in  Boston  and  Maiden.  She  entered  the 
Oread  in  1873.  Since  her  graduation  she  has  taught  fourteen 
years,  and  spent  three  years  in  travel  in  Europe.  She  is  at 
present  living  at  home. 

Address :    Lancaster,  Mass. 


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Abbie  Chamberlain  Jones  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass., 
April  1 8,  1856.  Her  parents  were  Isaac  H.  and  Tryphena 
(Chamberlain)   Jones,  both  of  whose  ancestors  had  a  part  in 


the  colonial  struggles  of  the  country.  Her  early  years  were 
spent  with  her  aunt  in  Oakham,  Mass.  She  entered  the  Oread 
in  1870.  After  leaving  school  she  taught  seven  years  in  the 
High  School  of  Abington,  Mass.  In  1884  she  was  married 
to  Charles  S.  Hayward,  and  went  with  him  to  find  a  home  in 
the  West.  They  have  lived  in  Omaha,  Neb.,  seventeen  years. 
Mr.  Hayward,  who  is  of  the  firm  of  Hayward  Brothers'  Shoe 
Company,  is  closely  identified  with  the  commercial  interests  of 
that  city.  A  son,  Raymond  W.,  born  in  1887,  is  their  only  child. 
Address:  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Hayward,  1313  South  31st  St., 
Omaha,  Neb. 


Charlotte  E.  Kimball  was  born  in 
Warren,  Mass.,  in  1856.  She  en- 
tered the  Oread  in  1873.  After  her 
graduation  she  devoted  much  of  her 
time  to  the  study  of  music  and  many 
happy  plans  were  made  for  her 
future,  but  consumption  developed, 
and  on  April  28,  1878,  she  died. 


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Fannie  Leland,  daughter  of  Joseph  Warren  and  Cynthia 
Adams  (Slocomb)  Leland,  was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  May 
25,  1853.     She  entered  the  Oread  in  1870,  and  was  graduated 


in  1875,  her  five  years  of  earnest  study  and  ready  kindness 
winning  for  her  a  large  acquaintance  and  many  friends  at 
that  institution.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  a  private 
school  at  her  home  in  Grafton  for  several  years,  teaching  small 
children,  whom  she  most  enjoyed.  She  now  resides  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. 
Address  :  Miss  Fannie  Leland,  357  Halsey  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Jennie  A.  Philbrook  was  born  in 
Augusta,  Me.,  June  16,  1853,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Alden  W.  and 
Mary  W.  (Whitten)  Philbrook. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1873. 
She  has  taught  in  the  Bangor  High 
School  ever  since  her  graduation, 
with  the  exception  of  one  year 
spent  abroad,  and  one  year  de- 
voted to  the  care  of  an  invalid 
brother. 

Address:  58  Broadway,  Bangor, 
Me. 

Belle  M.  Randolph  entered  the  Oread  in  1872.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  Warren  Randolph,  D.D.,  who  was  Secre- 
tary of  the  International  Sundav  School  Lesson  Committee  for 


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twenty-five  years,  and  a  member  of  the  various  lesson  commit- 
tees from  the  inauguration  of  the  system  in  1872  until  his  death 
in  1899.  One  of  his  ancestors,  Edward  Fitz  Randolph,  was 
the  first  Secretary  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts,  appointed 
by  the  English  king.  He  was  afterwards  Secretary  of  all  the 
New  England  colonies.  Belle's  grandfather  was  a  member  of 
the  New  Jersey  Legislature,  and  Governor  Theodore  F.  Ran- 
dolph of  the  same  state  was  a  connection  of  the  family. 

Her  mother's  maiden  name  was  Malvina  Dunn.  Colonel 
Crowe,  who  fought  on  the  American  side  at  the  battle  of  Mon- 
mouth, N.  J.,  was  Malvina  Dunn's  great-grandfather.     Another 

great-grandfather,  James  Thompson 
Dunn,  entered  the  Continental  Army 
as  a  volunteer  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen. The  officers  of  the  English 
army,  under  General  Howe,  seized 
his  father's  farm  at  New  Brunswick, 
N.  J.,  and  occupied  the  house  as 
their  headquarters.  This  farm  has 
W  been  "in  the  family  for  two  hundred 
^^^  C      W      and  fifty  years,  ami  ii  was  here  that 

^^f*^|li  Belle  was  born  on  June  25,   1853. 

^^    ifflw'ib  Since  leaving  the   Oread  she  has 

spent  most  of  the  years  at  home 
with  her  parents,  keeping  house  for  her  mother,  and  assisting 
her  father  in  his  work  where  she  could.  She  has  taught  at 
various  times  in  public  and  private  schools,  has  devoted  much 
time  to  study,  and  has  traveled  in  this  country  and  in  Europe. 
She  has  lived  in  and  near  Philadelphia,  at  Indianapolis,  in  New- 
port, R.  I.,  and  after  her  father's  death  returned  with  her 
mother  to  the  old  farm  where  both  were  born  and  where  Mrs. 
Randolph  died  October  6,  1902.  Since  then  she  has  lived  in 
Elizabeth,  X.  J.,  in  Philadelphia,  and  in  Newport,  R.  L,  engaged 
in  a  varictv  of  occupations,  caring  for  invalids,  acting  as  mis- 
sionary visitor  for  a  new  Philadelphia  church,  or  as  governess 
in  a  family. 

She  has  been  an  active  worker  in  the  Sunday  School,  was 
Recording  Secretary  for  two  years  of  the  Rhode  Island  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  State  Union,  and  organized  and  worked  for  a 
number  of  years  in  the  Newport  Flower  Mission.     She  was  a 


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member  of  the  Current  Topics  Club  of  Newport,  a  member  of  its 
Executive  Board  for  two  years,  and  its  Treasurer  for  one  year. 
She  has  written  papers  on  art  and  historical  subjects  for  the  club. 
Address :   903  Clinton  St.,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Helen  M.  Wood,  daughter  of  Ephraim  M.  and  Sophia  X. 

Wood,  was  born  in  Camden,  Me., 
August  30,  1855.  She  entered  the 
Oread  in  1873,  and  graduated  in 
1875  as  Valedictorian  of  her  class. 
She  taught  at  the  Oread  from  Sep- 
tember. 1876,  until  the  close  of  Air. 
Greene's  connection  with  the  school 
in  1879.  In  September,  1881,  she 
went  to  Washington,  D.  C.  and 
taught  for  three  years  in  Wayland 
Seminary,  a  school  for  young  col- 
ored men  and  women. 

She  was  married  in  August,  1884. 
to  Dr.  Ernest  F.  King  of  Washing- 
ton, and  has  one  daughter,  Marian  Hosmer,  born  June  17,  1892. 
Address  :    Airs.  Helen  M.  King,  24  Rutland  Sq.,  Boston,  Mass. 


CLASS   OF    1876 

Carrie  Jennette  Bassett,  daughter  of  Lucius  and  Mary  Jones 
( Partridge)  Bassett,  was  born  in 
Eden,  Vt.,  November  20,  1857. 
She  was  at  the  Oread  from  1872 
till  1876.  On  Christmas  Day,  1883, 
she  was  married  at  Worcester  to 
Clarence  Richmond  Macomber,  a 
manufacturer.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren :  Ethel  Calista,  born  October 
10,  1885,  and  Stanley  Bassett.  born 
February  6.  1888.  both  in  Worces- 
ter. Both  are  preparing  for  college, 
and  both  are.  like  their  parents, 
musical,  thus  completing  a  delight- 
ful quartette  in  their  own  home. 

Address:    Mrs.   Clarence  R.   Macomber,  6   Schiissler  Road, 
Worcester,  Mass. 


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Ida  Louise  Boyden,  Treasurer  of  the  Oread  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute Association  from  the  time  of  its  formation,  attended  the 
Oread  from  the  spring  of  1872  till  her  graduation  in  1876. 
Her  father  was  Frederick  Boyden,  a  physician  of  Hinsdale, 
N.  H.,  in  which  town  her  mother,  Delia  H.  (Taylor)  Boyden, 
was  born  and  where  Ida  also  was  born  August  16,  1856. 


On  September  26,  1877,  she  was  married  in  Hinsdale  to 
Robert  W.  Day,  now  President  of  the  United  Electric  Light 
Company  in  Springfield,  Mass.  Their  four  children  were  born 
in  Springfield:  Pauline  B.  on  February  19,  1879;  Robert  F.  on 
February  23,  1882 ;  Winsor  B.  on  December  23,  1885,  and  Mor- 
gan G.  on  November  3,  1892.  Pauline  is  a  graduate  of  Vassar 
and  has  studied  abroad.  Robert  is  now  a  student  at  Williams. 
Winsor  is  at  the  Middlesex  School,  Concord,  Mass.,  preparing 
for  college,  and  Morgan  is  also  looking  forward  to  a  college 
course.  Mrs.  Day  is  a  Trustee  in  the  Springfield  Hospital  and 
Home  for  Aged  Women. 

Address:  Mrs.  Robert  W.  Day,  265  State  St.,  Springfield, 
Mass. 


Estella  Coes,  daughter  of  Aury  Gates  and  Lucy  Wyman 
(Gibson)  Coes,  was  born  in  Worcester,  September  24,  1858. 
She  attended  the  Oread  four  years,  from  1872  till  1876.  After 
her  graduation  she  lived  quietly  at  her  home  in  Worcester  until 
1880,    when    the    family    removed   to    Boston.     In   June,    1881, 


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Estella  with  her  mother  and  sister 
Mary  went  to  Europe,  and  spent  a 
year  in  England,  Scotland,  France, 
Spain  and  Italy.  The  "iris  were 
also  for  a  few  months  in  a  private 
boarding  school.  In  September, 
r882,  they  went  to  Dresden,  plan- 
ning to  spend  the  winter  in  the 
stud\-  of  Art  and  German.  While 
there  Estella  was  taken  ill  with 
pneumonia,  which  developed  into 
quick  consumption,  and  she  died 
on  January  2,  1883,  at  Dresden. 


Laura  Terrill  Strong  was  born  in  Glendale,  Berkshire 
County,  Mass.,  September  25.  1856,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
John  Hooker  and  Harriet  Amelia  (Farnham)  Strong.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1875.  On  September  2*7,  1881, 
she  was  married  at  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  to  Rev.  Francis  Brown 
Perkins,  a  Congregational  clergyman. 

Mrs.  Perkins  has  been  especially  interested  in  home  and 
foreign  missionary  work.     In  1896-97  and  in  1898-99  she  was 


Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Union  of  Northern  California.  From  1897  to  1903  she  was  a 
Director  of  this  association,  and  in  the  years  1900-1903  its 
President.     In    1894-95   she  was  the  Editor  of  its  organ,  the 


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Missionary  Banner.  She  has  delivered  papers  on  various  occa- 
sions at  meetings  of  the  State  Missionary  Boards,  Home  and 
Foreign. 

Address:  Mrs.  Francis  B.  Perkins,  600  17th  St.,  Oakland,  Cal. 


Georgia  E.  Tuttle  was  born  in  Maynard,  Mass.,  December 

9,  1854,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Varntim  and  Sarah  L.  (Keith) 
Tuttle.  She  entered  the  Oread  in 
1872,  and  remained  for  one  year. 
Two  years  later  she  returned  again 
and  graduated  in  1876.  She  taught 
school  in  1874,  and  again  after  her 
graduation  in  1877  and  1878.  She 
was  married  December  4,  1878,  at 
South  Acton,  Mass.,  to  Walter  H. 
Whitney,  a  wholesale  commission 
merchant  of  the  firm  of  York  & 
Whitney,  1  North  Market  St.,  Bos- 
ton. They  have  no  children. 
Address:  Mrs.  Walter  H.  Whitney,  116  Sycamore  St.,  Winter 
Hill,  Somerville,  Mass. 


CLASS   OF    1877 

Maria  Burlingame,  the  daughter  of  Harris  and  Sarah  Avis 
(Warren)  Burlingame,  was  born  in 
Killingly,  Conn.,  September  29,  1858. 
After  her  graduation  from  the 
Oread,  where  she  was  a  pupil  from 
1875  to  1877,  she  taught  one  year 
at  Williams'  Academy,  Stockbridge, 
Mass.,  and  three  years  at  Pillsbury 
Academy,  (  hvatonna,  Minn.  On  De- 
cember 28,  1882,  she  was  married  at 
St.  Paul,  Minn.,  to  Julian  C.  Bryant, 
B.A.  Mr.  Bryant  is  principal  of  one 
of  the  public  schools  in  St.  Paul,  and 
is  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the 
Minnesota    Educational    Association. 


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Mrs.  Bryant  has  been  a  private  tutor  in  high  school  and  col- 
lege  studies,  and   has   numbered   among-   her   pupils   university 

students  and  professional  men  and 
women.  She  has  written  much  for 
deliver}'  and  publication,  of  which 
she  mentions:  "A  Little  Business," 
"Monuments,"  "Sherman's  March  to 
the  Sea,"  "The  West  Side,  St.  Paul, 
at  the  National  Grand  Army  En- 
campment, 1896,"  "Female  Suf- 
frage." "The  Giant  Lifter,"  "Intel- 
ligent Women,  the  Hope  of  Civiliza- 
tion," "The  Sunday  School.'"  She 
was  Editor  for  a  year  of  The  Aua- 
lecta,  a  school  paper,  and  is  now 
Editor  of  the  special  woman's  edition  of  the  West  St.  Paul 
Times. 

Address:     Mrs.   J.    C.    Bryant.    129   East    Congress    St.,    St. 
Paul,  Minn. 


Minnie    Anna    Burgess    Chase 

after  leaving  the  Oread  entered 
the  State  Normal  School  in  Wor- 
cester, where  she  was  graduated 
in  1883.  She  taught  for  six  years 
in  the  schools  of  Paxton,  West 
Upton  and  Worcester. 

She  was  married  May  14.  1889, 
to  Frank  E.  Y\ "hitehouse.  and  died 
in  Chicago,  October  8,  1898. 


Frances  A.  Greene  was  born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  August 
6,  1858,  and  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  for  ten  years.  Her  father 
was  Harris  Ray  Greene,  for  many  years  Principal  of  the  Oread. 
Her  mother's  maiden  name  was  M.  Antoinette  Seamans.  Her 
ancestry  is  traced  back  to  William  the  Conqueror,  in  England, 
and  to  colonial  governors  and  signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  to  many  prominent  men,  in  America. 


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After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  for  some  years  in  her 
father's  school  in  Brooklyn.  She  has  devoted  herself  to  the 
study  of  music,  pianoforte  and  composition,  principally  dra- 
matic work  for  voice  and  orches- 
tra. She  has  written  two  comic 
operas,  "Cupid  and  Psyche,"  and 
"Mr.  Punch,"  both  of  which  have 
been  successfully  produced  ;  also  the 
score  for  the  "Electra"  of  Sopho- 
cles, produced  by  the  Alumnae  of 
the  Adelphi  Academy  in  Brooklyn. 
Portions  of  this  work  have  been 
sung  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College  and 
elsewhere,  and  a  part  of  the  score 
was  exhibited  by  the  Federation  of 
Woman's  Clubs  at  the  World's  Fair 
in  Chicago  in  1893.  She  has  also  written  a  few  songs  and 
musical  accompaniments  for  recitations.  She  is  given  a  place 
as  a  composer  in  "Woman  in  Music,"  by  John  Tower.  She 
has  been  interested  in  charities  connected  with  hospitals  and 
humane  societies. 

Address :     Care    William    S.    Greene,    Prudential    Insurance 
Company,  Newark,  N.  J. 


Caroline  P.  Raymond  entered  the  Oread  in  1873.     Her  par- 


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ruts  were  Theodore  and  Sarah  B.  (Clark)    Raymond,  both  of 
English  ancestry,  dating  back  to  a  family  of  high  rank  in  Eng- 


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land,  and  to  prominent  colonial  families  in  America.  She  was 
born  January  17,  i860,  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  where  she  has 
always  resided.  In  November,  1883,  she  was  married  to 
Robert  Warner  Perkins,  a  banker,  whose  mother  was  Juliette 
A.  Warner,  one  of  the  first  Oread  pupils.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Madeleine  Raymond,  born  December  29,  1888,  who 
is  still  in  school.  Mrs.  Perkins  has  been  much  interested  in 
city  charities,  and  in  church  and  club  work. 

Present  address :    Mrs.  Robert  W.  Perkins,  42  Rockwell  St., 
Norwich,  Conn. 


CLASS   OF    1878 

Cora  Louise  Blair,  daughter  of  E.  H.  and  Lomira  S. 
(Barnes)  Blair,  was  born  in  West  Brookfield,  Mass.,  Novem- 
ber 22,  1858.     She  entered  the  Oread  in  1875. 

In  1878-80  she  continued,  under  a  private  tutor,  her  studies 


\ 


in  Greek  and  Latin,  and  from  1880  to  1886  gave  private  instruc- 
tion in  Latin.  After  teaching  two  years  in  the  public  schools 
she  was  Instructor  in  Greek,  Latin  and  Mathematics  at  Jones 
Seminary  at  All  Healing,  N.  C,  from  1890  to  1892.  and  at 
Miss  Kimball's  School  in  Worcester,  from  1892  to  1894.  In 
1894  she  became  Instructor  in  Elementary  Science  and  English 
Branches  at  Clarke  School  for  the  Deaf  at  Northampton. 
Address :    Clarke  School,  Northampton.  Mass. 


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Mary  Coes,  daughter  of  Aury  Gates  and  Lucy  Wyman  (Gib- 
son) Coes,  was  born  in  Worcester 
on  March  24,  1861.  She  entered 
the  Oread  in  1874,  and  remained 
after  graduation  a  year  for  further 
study. 

During  the  years  1881-1883,  she 
was  studying  in  Europe.  In  Sep- 
tember. 1883,  she  entered  Radcliffe 
College,  where  she  received  the  de- 
gree of  B.A.  in  June,  1887,  and  the 
degree  of  M.A.  in  1897.  In  1894 
she  was  appointed  Secretary  of  Rad- 
cliffe College.  She  is  the  Radcliffe 
Editor  of  the  Harvard  Graduates' 
Magazine,   and   is   very   prominent  in  educational   circles. 

Address :    10  Garden  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Helen  A.  Lamson,  daughter  of  Darius  F.  and  Martha  S. 
(Gregory)  Lamson,  was  born  on  November  11,  1859,  at  Little- 
ton, Mass. 

The  Lamson  family  emigrated 
from  England  earlv  in  the  seven- 
teenth century,  and  settled  in  Ips- 
wich, Mass.  The  Gregory  (Mc- 
Gregor) family  Was  of  Scotch 
origin,  and  came  to  America  at 
about  the  same  time.  For  several 
generations  branches  of  both  fami- 
lies have  been  living  in  Weston, 
Mass. 

Helen  entered  the  Oread  in  1873. 
Within  one  year  from  the  time 
when  her  classmates  stood  upon  the 

platform  at  the  old  First  Baptist  Church  and  listened  to  her 
injunctions  for  noble  living,  she  was  called  to  the  higher  life. 
I  ler  class  tenderly  cherish  the  memory  of  her  gentle  spirit  and 
quiet  devotion  to  duty.     She  died  on  April  7,  1879. 

Mary  C.  Rose  was  horn  in  i860  in  Rangoon,  Burmah,  her 
parents,  Abram  Taylor  and   Mary  M.   (Brayton)   Rose,  being 


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missionaries  to  that  country.     At  the  age  of  nine  she  came  to 

America  with  her  parents,  and  re- 
^^^m^,  mained    with    them    until    they    re- 

turned to  their  work  in  1873,  when 
she  entered  the  Oread.  Some  time 
after  her  graduation  she  took  a 
course  of  kindergarten  training  and 
taught  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

In  ^887  she  was  married  to  H. 
Howard  Pepper  of  Providence. 
where  they  have  since  lived,  and 
where  Mr.  Pepper  is  engaged  as 
Teller  of  the  Industrial  Trust  Com- 
pany. 
Rev.     D. 

wife,   the  maternal  grandparents  of 

Mary    Rose,    were    for    more    than 

half  a  century  missionaries  to  Bur- 

mah.       Her    mother    was    born    and 

married  there,  and  is  still  working  on 

the  field,  though  her  father,  mother, 

and  husband  have  been  laid  to  rest 

amidst  the  scenes  of  their  labors. 
Mrs.     Pepper     has     for     several 

\  ears  been  engaged  in  mission  Sun- 
day   School    work    at    the    Calhoun 

Avenue  Mission  of  which  her  hus- 
band is  Superintendent. 

Address :  Mrs.  H.  PL  Pepper,  90  Melrose  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Martha  G.  Williams,  daughter  of  Harvey  and  Eleanor  Hun- 
ter (Reed)  Williams,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  i860. 
Much  of  her  early  life  was  spent  in  Oakham,  Mass.,  with  her 
grandfather  and  her  aunt.  Mrs.  Sarah  Burt.  She  entered  the 
Oread  in  1873. 

On  January  15,  1884.  she  was  married  at  Worcester  to  Wil- 
liam F.  McFarland.  who  is  now  Private  Secretary  to  C.  E. 
Perkins.  ex-President  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy 
Railroad.  Mattie  writes:  "I  can  only  merit  President  Roose- 
velt's approval,  and  that  of  President  Eliot,  for  I  have  five 
children,  and  my  chief  work  in  life  has  been  that  of  a  mother." 


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Her  children  are:  Eleanor,  born  February  13,  1885;  William, 
born  February  27.  1886;  Catherine,  born  June  23,  1890; 
Richard,  born  February  21,  1897;   John,  born  January  1,  1899. 


all  at  Burlington,  Iowa.     Catherine  has  unusual  musical  ability. 

Mrs.  McFarland  has  been  engaged  in  local  charitable  work, 
and  has  made  many  friends  in  the  western  country,  to  which 
she  has  become   strongly  attached. 

Address :    Mrs.  W.  F.  McFarland,  Burlington,  Iowa. 


CLASS   OF    1879 
Lucy  Anna  Bushee  was  born  in  Worcester  in  1863. 


Her 


father,  James,  and  her  mother,  Har- 
riet J.  (Mowry)  Bushee,  were  both 
of  English  descent,  and  their  ances- 
tors had  resided  for  generations  in 
Rhode  Island.  Lucy  entered  the 
Oread  in  1875.  After  her  gradua- 
tion she  attended  Radclift'e  four 
years.  She  has  since  taught  three 
years  in  Rockford  Seminary,  111.. 
two  years  in  Miss  Gibbon's  School, 
Mew  York  City,  and  six  years  in 
the  Peebles  and  Thompson  School. 
Here  she  was  for  five  years  one 
of  the  Principals  and  Proprietors. 
She  is  now  resting,  with  plans  for  private  tutoring  in  (lie  future. 
Address:    101   West  58th  St.,  New  York  City. 


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Ida  E.  Conner  entered  the  Oread  in  1877.  After  leaving 
school  she  was  married  to  Alexander  Russell,  and  now  resides 
in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Etta  E.  DeLand,  daughter  of  Dr.  E.  H.  DeLand  and  his  wife, 
^^^^^^  Ellen  J.  Tallman,  was  born  in  Wor- 

cester in  1859,  and  attended  the 
Oread  in  1875-79.  Since  gradua- 
ting from  the  Oread  she  has  led  a 
home  life,  and  has  been  a  church 
choir  singer.  She  was  married 
June  20.  1882,  in  "Worcester,  to 
Dr.  A.  D.  Gay,  a  physician,  and 
has  one  child :  Clifford  D.,  born 
May  5,  1889,  in  Warren.  Mass. 
He  attends  the  Prince  School,  Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

Mrs.  Gay  is  eligible  to  membership 
in  the  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution 
through  ancestors  who  served  honorablv  in  the  Revolutionarv 
War. 

Address:  Mrs.  A.  D.  Gay,  The  Copley,  18  Huntington  Ave.. 
Boston,  Mass. 

Mattie  L.  Smiley  was  born  in 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  January  20,  i860. 
Her  father  was  Lucien  Smiley,  of 
Scotch  descent,  whose  ancestors 
emigrated  to  the  north  of  Ireland 
and  afterward  came  to  America  and 
were  among  the  first  settlers  of 
Haverhill.  Her  great-grandfather 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Her  grandmother,  Ruth 
Dustin  Smiley,  was  a  descendant  of 
Hannah  Dustin.  Her  mother  was 
Martha  S.  Hunkins,  of  English 
descent. 

Since  leaving  the  Oread  in  1879,  Miss  Smiley  has  been  a 
teacher. 

Address :    2~    Kenoza    Ave..    Haverhill.    Mass. 


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NON-GRADUATES 

Ida  A.  Aldrich  was  born  in  Templeton,  Mass.,  February  27, 
1855,  the  daughter  of  Andrew  J.  and  Auretta  (Roys)  Aldrich. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1872  and  remained  until  1874.  She 
was  married  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  September  2,  1878,  to 
Charles  C.  Burleigh,  Jr.,  son  of  the  anti-slavery  reformer, 
Charles  C.  Burleigh,  who  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Governor 
Bradford.  Mr.  Burleigh  was  a  portrait  painter,  and  died  in 
1882  in  Cologne,  Germany,  leaving  besides  his  widow  one 
daughter,  Gertrude  Florence  Burleigh,  who  was  born  to  them 
in  Munich.  Bavaria,  June  23,  1879,  and  who  was  graduated 
with  honors  from  Yassar  College  in  June,  1901.  Mrs.  Bur- 
leigh is  now  teaching  German  at  the  High  School  in  Springfield, 
Mass. 

Address:  Mrs.  Ida  A.  Burleigh,  184  Bowdoin  St.,  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Eliza  Gertrude  Allen,  the  daughter  of  Willard  E.  and  Lucy 
M.  (Flagg)  Allen,  was  born  in  Worcester  on  October  9,  1846. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1867,  and  after  leaving  was  engaged 
for  some  time  in  home  duties  and  in  clerical  work.  On  April 
28,  1872,  she  was  married  at  Worcester  to  W.  O.  Patten,  a 
grocer.  They  had  four  children:  Allen  R.,  born  March  13, 
1873,  died  January  26,  1880;  Willie  Flagg,  born  April  2,  1875, 
died  February  14,  1880;  Ralph  H.,  born  September  10,  1879; 
Robert  A.,  born  December  2,  1880.  Ralph  and  Robert  were 
educated  at  the  English  High  School  at  Worcester. 

Mrs.  Patten  was  a  great  lover  of  music  and  was  actively 
interested  in  musical  affairs.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Wor- 
cester Festival  chorus  for  a  number  of  years.  She  died  at  her 
home  in  Worcester  October  2,   1903. 

Josie  F.  Allen,  daughter  of  Willard  E.  and  Lucy  M.  (Flagg) 
Allen,  and  sister  of  Eliza  G.  Allen,  attended  the  Oread  as  a  day 
pupil  in  1866-69.  She  resides  with  her  mother  at  14  Sycamore 
St.,  Worcester. 


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Julia  Emma  Allen,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1868,  was  born 

in  Fiskdale,  Mass.,  June  17,  1846, 
and  died  in  Rangoon,  Burmah,  July 
10,  1875.  August  10,  1869,  she  was 
married  to  Rev.  Melvin  Jameson, 
a  missionary,  and  sailed  for  Bur- 
mah on  December  22  of  the  same 
year. 

Three  children  were  born  to 
them :  Allen  Marsh,  born  Septem- 
ber 21,  1870,  at  Rangoon;  Hugh, 
born  April  18,  1872,  at  Bassein : 
Melvin  Waldo,  born  June  6,  1875, 
at  Bassein.  These  children  are 
now  all  married,  and  there  are  seven 
grandchildren. 

Julia's  husband.  Rev.   Melvin  Jameson,  is  living  at  present 
in  East  Alton,  111. 


MR.    AND    MRS.    TAMESON. 


Mary  Elizabeth  Amidon  was  born  in  Hinsdale,  N.  H.,  July 
31,  1859.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1875,  and 
remained  four  years. 

Her  father  was  Hon.  Charles  J.  Amidon,  a  woolen  manufac- 
turer of  Hinsdale.  He  was  born  in 
Chesterfield,  X.  H.,  and  for  many 
years  was  prominent  in  state  poli- 
tics. Her  mother  was  Mary  J. 
Harvey,  also  of  Chesterfield. 

After  leaving  the  Oread,  Lizzie 
Amidon  went  to  Boston  and  en- 
tered a  French  family.  She  re- 
mained there  two  years,  studying 
French  and  vocal  and  instrumental 
music.  She  then  spent  two  years 
at  the  Children's  Hospital  in  Bos- 
ton, giving  her  services  as  nurse. 
She  was  greatly  interested  in   this 

work,  and  gave  all  her  time  and  strength  to  the  sick  little  ones, 
taking  several  of  the  most  unfortunate  to  her  beautiful  country 
home  each  summer. 


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Her  own  health  broke  down  while  at  the  hospital,  and  her 
father  took  her  to  Colorado  in  1884,  hoping  the  change  would 
be  of  benefit.  October  28,  1886,  she  was  married  to  Dr. 
Roland  B.  Whitridge  of  Boston,  now  of  Baltimore. 

For  two  years  her  health  was  sought  in  every  clime  that 
offered  help,  but  in  September,  1888,  she  died,  at  Dublin,  X.  H. 


Eva  Andrews,  the  only  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Julia  Andrews  of 
Boston,  was  born  in  June,  1860. 
She  attended  the  Oread  from  1879 
to  1 88 1.  In  1885  she  was  married  to 
W.  H.  G.  Rowe  of  Boston,  a  grad- 
uate of  Bowdoin  College  and  a  doc- 
tor, but  not  a  practicing  physician. 

Their  only  child,  Dorothy  Web- 
ster, was  born  January  13,  1892. 

Mrs.  Rowe  died  at  Winchester, 
Mass.,  January  17,  1899. 


Mary  Angell  was  born  in  Oxford,  Mass.,  May  18,  1853.  Her 
father's  name  was  Charles  A.  Angell,  and  her  mother's  Mary 
J.  Bigelow.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1869,  and 
remained  until  February,  1870.  Since  leaving  the  Oread  she 
has  lived  in  Oxford,  Mass. 

Minnie  M.  Austin  was  born  at  Bristol,  Conn.,  April  9,  1855, 
the  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Harvey  and  Emily  M.  (King) 
Austin,  both  of  honorable  New  England  ancestry. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1872  and  remained  one  year.  On 
October  18,  1877,  she  was  married  to  Sylvester  Clark  Dunham, 
President  of  the  Travelers'  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford. 
Mr.  Dunham  is  a  Mayflower  descendant  and  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  They  have  one  child, 
Donald  Austin,  born  March  22,  1881,  at  Hartford,  Conn.  He 
was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1903. 

Mrs.  Dunham's  leisure  work  is  the  study  of  metaphysics  and 
philosophy.      In  the  line  of  philanthropy  she  takes  special  inter- 


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est  in  social  settlement  work  and  the  work  of  Berea  College 
for  Mountain  Whites. 


Address:  Mrs.  Sylvester  Clark  Dunham,  17  Marshall  St., 
Hartford,  Conn. 

Juliette  Ayres,  daughter  of  Isaac  Ay-res  of  New  Braintree, 
and  his  wife,  Charlotte  Foster  of  Oakham,  was  born  May  24, 
1839,  m  Petersham,  Mass.  She  attended  the  Oread  about  the 
year  1865,  and  after  leaving  that  institution  taught  in  the  public 
schools  until  1869.  She  has  been  a  housekeeper  and  for  the 
last  ten  years  has  engaged  in  palm-leaf  basketry  work. 

Address :   Petersham,  Mass. 

Marianna  Babbitt,  daughter  of  Pliny  H.  and  Lydia  (Perry) 
Babbitt,  was  born  in  Barre,  Mass.,  in  1847.  She  attended  the 
Oread  in  1867,  but  for  a  brief  period  only,  because  of  illness. 
After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  for  a  time.  In  1883  she  was 
married  at  Barre  to  Theodore  Bemis. 

Address :  Mrs.  Theodore  Bemis,  32  Frank  St.,  Provi- 
dence,  R.    I. 


M.  Ella  Bacon,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  the  year  1876-77, 
was  the  daughter  of  George  and  Angenette  (Morris)  Bacon 
of  North  Oxford,  Mass.  Her  father  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
^"ar.  He  was  severely  wounded  in  battle  on  May  5,  1864,  and 
died  a  month  later,  on  June  6. 
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Miss  Bacon  was  married  in  Worcester  on  January  20,  1887, 
to  William  A.  King,  who  is  in  the  employ  of  the  Singer  Sewing 
Machine  Company.     They  have  three  children,  all  born  in  Wor- 


cester: Ralph  W.,  born  February  21,  1889;  Mildred  R.,  born 
May  4,  1890;   and  Olive  M.,  born  January  19,  1892. 

Mrs.  King  has  had  a  very  busy  life,  having  been  a  business 
woman  previous  to  her  marriage,  but  she  has  kept  up  her 
interest  in  music,  both  vocal  and  instrumental,  and  has  sung  in 
the  Worcester  Music  Festival  Chorus  for  many  years. 

Address:    Mrs.  W.  A.  King,   124  Chandler  St.,  Worcester. 

Helen  Elizabeth  Baker,  daughter  of  Joel  Metcalf  and  Eliza- 
beth (Noyes)  Baker,  was  born  in  Dedham,  Mass.,  in  1848.  Her 
father's  mother,  Betsey  (Metcalf)  Baker,  was  the  inventor  of 
straw  braiding  in  America.  Nellie  attended  the  Oread  in 
1864-66.  She  was  married  January  1,  1867,  at  Dedham  to 
Samuel  Clark  Lovis,  a  railroad  man.  Their  daughter,  Nancy 
Irwin,  born  in  Indianapolis  May  28,  1878,  is  a  graduate  of  Miss 
Hersey's  School,  Boston. 

Address :    Mrs.  Samuel  C.  Lovis,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 


Mary  E.  Baldwin,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  the  year  i< 
69,  was  born  in  1848  in  Illinois.  She  was  married  in  1872  in 
Pomfret,  Conn.,  to  Darius  Mathewson,  a  banker.  Her  only  son, 
George  Baldwin,  born  in  Pomfret  in  June,  1881,  died  in  May, 
1882. 

Address :   Mrs.  Darius  Mathewson,  Norfolk,  Neb. 


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Marcia  A.  Barber,  daughter  of  Thomas  T.  Barber  and  his 
wife,  Angeline  P.  Richmond,  was  born  November  1,  1849,  m 
Hopkinton,  R.  I.      She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868,  remaining 


during  one  school  year.  November  18,  1869,  she  was  married 
in  Hope  Valley,  R.  I.,  to  Joseph  S.  Aldrich,  a  merchant,  who 
died  February  14.  1874.  They  had  two  children:  Susan  A., 
born  July  16,  1870;  and  Thomas  E.,  born  June  21,  1872,  died  in 
September,  1872.  Susan  attended  the  Providence  High  School, 
and  was  married  to  Ralph  C.  Watrous,  June  23,  1892. 

Mrs.  Aldrich  received  the  Chautauqua  diploma  in  1884,  and 
has  studied  art  and  literature  in  private  classes. 

Address :  Mrs.  Marcia  A.  Aldrich,  323  Angell  St.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. 


Anna  M.  Barrett,  daughter  of 
William  R.  and  Sarah  Ann  (Knowl- 
ton)  Barrett  of  Barre,  Mass.,  at- 
tended the  Oread  one  year,  1876- 
yj.  She  was  married  to  Mr.  Comee, 
who  died  in  1895.  She  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  where  she 
presides  over  a  house  of  ten  girls, 
who  are  studying  in  Miss  Dana's 
boarding  school.  Mrs.  Comee  also 
has  some  classes  in  this  school. 

Address :  Mrs.  Anna  B.  Comee, 
1   Madison  Ave..  Morristown,  N.   T- 


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Nettie  R.  Beebe  was  born  August  20,  1856,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Jared  and  Mary  (Stacey)  Beebe. 

Nettie  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1873,  and  left  in  1874. 
She  was  married  to  Dr.  Elliott  D.  Robbins  on  April  26,  1880. 
She    has    three    children:     Marion,    born    December    4,    1881 ; 


Elliott  Beebe,  born  September  24,  1883 ;    and  Harold  H.,  born 
June  i,  1887. 

Address:    Mrs.   Elliott  D.   Robbins,   315    Kent   St.,   Brook- 
line,  Mass. 


Alice  J.  Bigelow  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Mass.,  August  8, 
1856.  Her  father  is  George  C.  Bigelow,  contractor  and  builder, 
and  her  mother,  Eleanor  J.  (Doane)  Bigelow,  was  once  a 
student  at  the  Oread. 

Alice  entered  the  Oread  in  1871  and  left  in  1875.  Four  years 
later,  October  2,  1879,  she  was  married  to  F.  P.  Knowles,  Vice- 
President  of  the  Crompton  &  Knowles  Loom  Works.  Their 
children  are:  George  Francis,  born  October  19,  1881  ;  Alice 
Marion,  born  February  2,  1886;  and  Lillian,  born  August  26, 
1888.  The  son  is  in  the  Military  Institute,  the  daughters  in  the 
Worcester  public  schools. 

Mrs.  Knowles  is  an  active  worker  in  Pilgrim  Church,  in  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.,  and  in  the  Children's  Friend  Society. 

Address:  Mrs.  Frank  P.  Knowles,  838  Main  St.,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 


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Sarah  H.  Bigelow,  daughter  of  Walter  Bigelow  of  Worces- 
ter and  his  wife,  Alary  King  Hyde  of  Newton,  Mass.,  was  born 
in  Worcester,  August  12,  1846.  She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread 
one  year,  1865-66.  June  25,  1868,  at  Worcester  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Charles  H.  Davis,  M.D.,  a  graduate  of  the  Harvard 
Medical  School.  She  has  two  children:  Anna  B.,  born  in 
Dorchester,  June  21,  1869,  and  Ethel  H.,  born  in  Worcester, 
August  13,  1876.  Anna  was  educated  at  private  schools  in 
Worcester,  and  was  married  December  5,  1893,  to  Walter 
Perley  Hall,  a  lawyer  of  Fitchburg.  Ethel  graduated  from  the 
Worcester  High  School,  and  was  two  years  at  Smith  College. 

Mrs.  Davis  is  a  member  of  the  Worcester  Woman's  Club,  and 
was  at  one  time  its  Vice-President.  She  is  Secretary  of  the 
Worcester  League  of  Unitarian  Women,  and  President  of  the 
Good  Samaritan  Society  of  Worcester,  an  association  for  loan- 
ing articles,  such  as  wheel  chairs,  fracture  beds,  etc.,  to  the  sick 
and  needy. 

Address:  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Davis,  131  Burncoat  St.,  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 

Augusta  Billings  attended  the  Oread  in  1872  and  1873.  In 
1879  she  was  married  to  Rev.  Charles  H.  Taintor,  a  Congrega- 
tional minister.  Mr.  Taintor  was  elected,  in  1883,  Western 
Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Church  Building  Society,  with 
which  work  Mrs.  Taintor  has  been  closely  identified  for  twenty 
years.  She  has  spoken  frequently  among  the  churches  in  behalf 
of  the  parsonage  building  fund,  and  is  Assistant  Field  Secre- 
tary under  her  husband. 

Address:  Mrs.  C.  H.  Taintor,  151  Washington  St.,  Chi- 
cago, 111. 

Addie  M.  Bird,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1876-78,  was 
the  daughter  of  John  and  Abbie  (Smith)  Bird,  and  was  born 
in  Rockland,  Me.,  December  14,  1857.  On  January  13,  1881, 
she  was  married  to  Clarence  E.  Mclntire  of  Rockport,  Me. 
Air.  Mclntire  is  now  in  business  in  Belfast.  They  have  one 
son,  born  in  Rockland,  May  10,  1883,  who  attends  the  Univer- 
sity 1  if  Maine. 

Address :    Mrs.  C.  E.  Mclntire,  16  Church  St.,  Belfast,  Me. 


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Annie  Louise  Bisco,  daughter  of  John  Waldo  and  Ellen 
Maria  (Eames)  Bisco,  was  born  in  Leicester,  Mass.,  June  15, 
1862.  Two  ancestors,  John  Draper  and  Johnson  Lynde,  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  the  latter  being  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Correspondence  in  1780-81. 

She  attended  the  Oread  in  the  year  1878-79,  and  was  mar- 
ried on  June  20,  1882,  at  Leicester,  Mass.,  to  Joseph  Bradford 
Sargent.  Mr.  Sargent  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature 
in  1892.  They  have  four  children :  Winthrop  Bisco,  born  June 
6,  1883,  at  Leicester,  educated  at  private  schools  in  Worcester, 
and  a  graduate  of  Worcester  Academy  in  the  class  of  1902,  is 
now  in  a  lawyer's  office  in  Boston,  preparatory  to  taking  a  law 
course;  Adelaide,  born  in  Leicester,  April  29,  1885,  and  Mildred, 
also  born  in  Leicester  on  June  14,  1888,  are  now  in  the  Brook- 
line  High  School;  Joseph  Bradford,  Jr.,  born  February  13, 
1896,  in  Worcester,  is  attending  the  Edward  Devotion  School 
in  Brookline. 

Address:  Mrs.  J.  B.  Sargent,  99  Thorndike  St.,  Brook- 
line,  Mass. 

Hannah  Bond  was  born  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  May  14,  1843. 
Her  father  was  Amasa  Bond,  and  her  mother  Maria  (Powers) 
Bond,  a  native  of  New  Hampshire. 

She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  winter  and  spring  of 
1867.  Since  leaving  school  she  has  lived  a  busy  and  active  life, 
having  been  variously  employed  as  teacher,  housekeeper  and 
hospital  attendant.  From  1870  to  1873  she  attended  Dr.  Trail's 
Hygeio-Therapeutic  College,  from  which  she  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.D.  She  was  a  teacher,  chiefly  between  the 
years  1876  and  1886,  and  had  schools  in  Sterling,  Millbury, 
Boylston  and  Auburn,  Mass.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  and  in  Illinois. 
She  has  no  permanent  address,  but  letters  sent  to  Auburn,  Mass., 
will  always  be  forwarded. 

Martha  A.  Bond,  daughter  of  Amasa  and  Maria  (Powers) 
Bond,  was  born  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  November  20,  1846,  and 
attended  the  Oread  in  1866-67. 

Miss  Bond  taught  in  primary  schools  in  Millbury  for  a  num- 
ber of  terms.  She  was  married  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  1868, 
to    Henry    W.    Davidson,   a    farmer   of    Millbury.      They   had 


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three  children:  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  August  31,  1869,  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Worcester  Normal  School,  and  is  teaching  in 
Milford,  X.  H. :  William  Grey,  born  September  10,  1871, 
attended  the  Millbury  High  School,  and  Becker's  Business  Col- 
lege, married  Vinnie  Knight  in  October,  1896,  has  six  children 
and  is  a  successful  farmer  and  milk  dealer  in  Millbury ;  Martha 
Mabel,  born  September  28,  1878,  attended  the  Millbury  High 
School  and  Becker's  Business  College,  and  is  a  stenographer  in 
Milford,  X.  H. 

Mrs.  Davidson  died  January  11,  1879. 

Harriet  Bosworth,  daughter  of   Alfred  and  Ann   (Collins) 
Bosworth.   was   born   in    Warren,   R.    I.,    September   27,    1847. 
David   Bosworth,   her   father's   father,   was   a   native   of   War- 
ren.    William  Collins,  her  mother's 
father,  was  from  Plymouth,  X.  C. 
Hattie's    father,    Alfred    Bosworth, 
was  a  lawyer  and  judge,  a  promi- 
nent   and    influential    man    in    his 
native  town.      He  died  before  Hat- 
tie  came  to  the  Oread. 

She  was  at  that  institution  only 
a  short  time,  in  the  year  1868-69, 
being  called  away  by  her  mother's 
illness.  She  remained  afterwards  at 
home  in  Warren,  tenderly  caring  for 
her  mother,  who  was  an  invalid  for 
many  years  previous  to  her  death. 

Some  time  after  leaving  the  Oread  she  was  chosen  Librarian 
of  the  Warren  Library,  and  filled  this  position  with  eminent 
success  for  several  years.  When  the  new  library  building  in 
Warren  was  ready  for  occupancy  in  1889,  she  overtaxed  her 
strength  in  rearranging  and  recataloguing  the  books,  and  died, 
after  a  short  illness,  on  June  13,   1889. 

A.  Jeanie  Bradley  entered  the  Oread  in  1867.  Her  present 
address  is  7  Marston  Way,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Emma  F.  Briggs,  the  daughter  of  Ira  G..  and  Lydia 
(  Andrews)  Briggs,  was  born  in  Yoluntown.  Conn.,  January  2J, 
1 86 1.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  1879  to  1881,  and  spent 
six  months  of  the  next  year   (1882)    in  travel  in  Europe. 


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She  was  married  October  i,  1884,  at  Griswold,  Conn.,  to 
George  Wyman  Carroll,  a  wholesale  dealer  in  heavy  chemicals 
and  mill  supplies.     Their  only  son,  George  Wyman  Carroll,  Jr., 


was  born  May  9,  1886,  at  Norwich,  Conn.  He  graduated  from 
St.  Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  L.  I.,  in  June,  1904,  and  entered 
Brown  University  the  following  September. 

Address :     Mrs.    George    W.    Carroll,    257    Broadway,    Nor- 
wich,   Conn. 

Evelyn    C.    Briggs    was    born    in    Grosvenor    Dale,    Conn.. 

August  24,    1852.  and   entered  the  Oread  in   1870,   remaining 

two  years.  Her  father  was  Lucius 
Briggs,  a  manufacturer.  Her  great- 
grandfather was  Jonathan  Briggs, 
who  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
Army  from  the  beginning  to  the  end 
of  the  war,  taking  part  in  many  hard- 
fought  battles  and  receiving  an  hon- 
orable discharge,  signed  by  General 
Washington.  Her  mother  was  Mary 
(Tift)  Briggs,  the  daughter  of  Solo- 
mon Tift,  who  served  his  country 
during  the  Revolutionary  period  in 
the  navy.      After  leaving  the  Oread 

Miss   Briggs   studied   music   at   Maplewood,   and   sang   in   the 

chorus   in   the  Boston  Jubilee.      In    1875   an^    1876   she   spent 

several  months  abroad  with  her  father. 


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On  October  3,  1877.  she  was  married  to  Floyd  Cranska  of 
Grosvenor  Dale.  Mr.  Cranska  is  a  manufacturer  of  thread, 
having  one  mill  at  Moosup,  Conn.,  and  another  in  Worcester. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Con- 
necticut Legislature.  They  had  six 
children :  Annie  Louise,  born  Jan- 
uary 13,  1879,  m  Grosvenor  Dale; 
Lucius  Briggs,  born  January  3, 
1880,  in  Gosvenor  Dale ;  Caroline 
Matilda,  born  April  18,  1884,  died 
March  24,  1889;  Harriet  Atwood, 
born  June  24,  1886;  Evelyn  Clara, 
born  July  6,  1888;  Floyd,  Jr.,  born 
June  25,  1890,  died  November  6, 
1894.  The  last  four  were  born  in 
Moosup.  Annie  Louise  was  grad- 
uated at  Colby  Academy,  Xew  Lon- 
don. X.  H.,  in  1898,  and  at  Smith  College  in  1902  ;  Lucius,  who 
is  a  graduate  of  Norwich  Free  Academy  and  the  Lowell  Tex- 
tile School,  is  now  in  business  ;  Harriet  is  at  Miss  Butts'  School, 
Norwich,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Cranska  joined  the  Central  Baptist  Church  of  Thomp- 
son, Conn.,  when  about  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  her  life  bore 
abundant  testimony  to  her  Christian  devotion.  She  taught 
many  years  in  the  Sunday  School.  She  was  a  charter  member 
of  the  Deborah  Avery  Putnam  Chapter,  D.  A.  R.,  and  its 
treasurer  for  some  time.     She  died  March  26,   1902. 

Marion  J.  Briggs  was  born  at 
Hope,  Scituate,  R.  I.,  September  18, 
1861.  Her  parents  were  Ezra  and 
Christina  (Knight)  Briggs,  and  sev- 
eral of  her  ancestors  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  She  entered 
the  Oread  in  1879.  After  leaving 
school  in  1881,  she  went  abroad 
with  Miss  Ida  Thayer,  and  remained 
in  Europe  for  nearly  two  years. 
.She  spent  most  of  this  time  in  Flor- 
ence and  Paris,  but  traveled  also, 
accompanied  by  her  father,  in  Italy, 


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Switzerland,  Germany,  Belgium,  France  and  England.  In 
September,  1885,  she  was  married  at  Voluntown,  Conn.,  to 
Arthur  H.  Eddy,  a  manufacturer  of  electrical  machinery. 

She  had  two  children :  Gertrude  Briggs,  born  at  Hartford, 
Conn.,  in  December,  1887 ;  and  Norman  T.,  born  at  Hartford 
in  April,  1890.  Gertrude  is  in  the  Hartford  High  School  and 
Norman  is  at  present  attending  school  in  Windsor,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Eddy  died  on  the  birth  of  her  son  in  April,  1890. 

Nellie  C.  Bronson  was  born  at  Hyannis,  Mass.,  June  13,  1856, 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  J.  and  Mary  (Chaplin)  Bronson. 
Since  leaving  the  Oread  she  has  been  interested  in  and  con- 
nected with  educational  work.  She  was  graduated  in  1878 
from  the  Framingham  Normal  School,  and  after  teaching  a 
while  in  the  public  schools  took  a  special  course  at  Wellesley. 
She  taught  eight  years  in  Bucknell  Institute,  Lewisburg,  Pa., 
and  two  years  in  Miss  Wheeler's  Froebel  School  in  Providence. 
The  year  1894-95  she  spent  abroad  in  study  and  travel.  For 
the  past  seven  years  she  and  her  sister  have  had  a  private 
school  in  Providence.  It  is  a  well-organized  day  school  and 
accommodates  six  or  seven  young  boys  or  girls  as  boarding 
pupils.     This  school  is  very  successful  and  is  highly  spoken  of. 

Address :   313  Hope  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Annie  E.  Brown  was  born  in  West  Brookfield,  Mass.,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Hammond  and  Rocksa  Brown.  She  was 
at  the  Oread  in  1870-71.  On  May  7,  1872,  she  was  married 
in  West  Brookfield  to  Rev.  Charles  P.  Blanchard.  Mr.  Blan- 
chard  died  about  five  years  ago.  They  had  two  children,  Abby 
F.  and  Albert  C.  The  daughter,  born  August  10,  1875,  is  a 
Wellesley  graduate  of  the  class  of  1898,  and  was  married  Sep- 
tember 5,  1899,  to  Rev.  O.  W.  Means,  Ph.D.  The  son,  born 
March  23,  1876,  died  in  April,  1884.  Mrs.  Blanchard,  as  a 
pastor's  wife,  has  been  engaged  in  active  church  work. 

Address :   Mrs.  Annie  E.  Blanchard,  Brookfield,  Mass. 

Ella  A.  Buffum  was  born  in  Millville,  Mass.,  July  1,  1850. 
Her  father,  Moses  Buffum,  was  of  Quaker  descent,  and  her 
mother,  Louisa  Pitts,  descended  from  the  great  English  states- 


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man,  Sir  William  Pitt,  the  final  s  in  her  mother's  name  having 
been  added  after  the  family  came  to  this  country.     Miss  Buffum 


was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1866-67.     In  February,   1889,  at 
Oxford,  Mass.,  she  was  married  to  Anthony  G.  Hanna,  a  florist. 
Address :    Mrs.  Anthony  G.  Hanna,  Holbrook,  Mass. 


Ida  Frances  Butler,  daughter  of  Philip  Miles  and  Angeline 
(Rindge)  Butler,  was  born  in  Wil- 
braham,  Mass.,  December  26,  1858. 
She  attended  the  Oread  in  1873-74, 
coming  from  West  Brookfield, 
Mass. 

On  May  19,  1875,  sne  was  mar- 
ried at  West  Brookfield,  to  Loyal 
Elisha  Tarbell,  an  engineer,  of 
North  Brookfield,  Mass.  He  died 
July  4,  1896.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  North  Brookfield : 
Eva  Maude  is  married  and  lives 
in  Whitinsville,  Mass. ;  Fred  Loyal 
is  with  a  wholesale  provision  house 
in  Chicago,  111. ;  Marion  and  Ethel 
are  stenographers  in  Worcester;  and  Philip  and  Mildred  are 
still  attending  school  in  North  Brookfield. 

Address:    Mrs.  Ida  B.  Tarbell,  North  Brookfield,  Mass. 


ABBIE  JONES  AND  IDA  BUTLER. 


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Helen  P.  Butterick,  daughter  of  J.  S.  Butterick,  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Richardson,  was  born  at  Sterling,  Mass.,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1845.  She  was  at  the  Oread  one  term  in  the  year 
1867-68,  as  a  private  pupil  in  French  and  music.  Afterwards 
she  was  a  teacher  of  music  for  a  number  of  years.  On  March 
28,  1869,  she  was  married  at  Sterling  to  Edward  E.  Wilson,  a 
currier.  They  had  one  son,  Arthur  E.  Wilson,  born  in  Clinton, 
Mass.,  September  10,  1870.  He  was  educated  for  the  Unitarian 
ministry  and  was  married  to  Adele  M.  Barney,  a  writer  of  some 
note,  and  Editor  of  Fashions.  After  her  husband's  death  Mrs. 
Wilson  was  married  a  second  time,  on  July  26,  1883,  to  Charles 
A.  Russell,  a  carpenter. 

Address :    Mrs.  Charles  A.  Russell,  Clinton,  Mass. 


Grace  Theresa  Chase,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Rachel 
Walker  (Harville)  Chase,  was  born  in  Blackstone,  Mass., 
November  29,  1851.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  New  Hamp- 
shire and  her  mother  of  Maine. 

She   attended   the   Oread   in    1871-72.     April   29,    1875,   she 


was  married  at  Worcester  to  Charles  Albert  Allen.  Mr.  Allen 
is  a  civil  engineer,  and  was  for  fifteen  years  City  Engineer 
of  Worcester.  He  is  Junior  Warden  of  St.  Mark's  Church. 
They  have  had  five  children:  Robert  Chase,  born  March  8, 
1878,  married  Florence  A.  Taylor  of  Worcester  April  14,  1903, 
and  has  one  son,  is  a  contractor  and  engaged  in  business  with 
his  uncle,  Frank  L.  Allen;  Charles  Albert.  Jr.,  born  November 
13,  i(S<So,  died  at  the  age  of  four  years;   Chester  Salisbury,  born 


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November  25,  1882,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Worcester  Classical 
High  School  and  attended  Brown  University  three  years ;  Mary 
Harville,  born  March  10,  1886,  graduated  in  1904  from  the 
Worcester  Classical  High  School,  and  is  now  at  St.  Margaret's 
School,  Waterbury,  Conn. ;  Grace  Walker,  born  February  26, 
1889,  is  a  pupil  at  the  Classical  High  School. 

Mrs.  Allen  is  interested  along  various  lines  of  church  work 
and  city  charities. 

Address  :  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Allen,  63  Wachusett  St.,  Worcester. 

Naomi  Childs,  the  daughter  of  Albion  K.  P.  and  Lucy  Ann 
(Kyes)  Childs,  was  born  September  6,  1855,  at  Jay  Bridge,  Me. 
She  came  with  her  mother  to  the  Oread  in  1869,  and  was  a 
pupil  there  for  several  years  while 
Mrs.  Childs  held  the  position  of 
matron.  In  1874  they  left  the  school 
and  established  a  home  for  them- 
selves on  Dix  St.  in  order  that  Mrs. 
Childs'  nephew  might  live  with  them 
while  attending  the  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. While  living  here  Xaomi 
met  Calvin  H.  Hill,  also  a  student  at 
the  Institute,  to  whom,  on  Decem- 
ber 18,  1878,  she  was  married.  Mr. 
Hill  is  a  chair  manufacturer,  being 
Treasurer  of  the  large  firm  of  Hey- 
wood  Brothers  &  Wakefield  Company,  of  Gardner,  Mass. 
lived  in  Gardner  until  1890,  when  they  removed  to  Chicago, 
hoping  the  change  would  be  beneficial  to  Mrs.  Hill's  frail  health, 
but  she  did  not  grow  better,  and  died  in  Chicago,  after  an  illness 
of  several  months,  on  December  22,  1892.  Two  children  sur- 
vived her:  Edith  Xaomi,  born  April  10,  1881,  and  Frederic  K., 
born  September  7,  1882,  both  at  Gardner,  Mass.  Her  daughter 
was  graduated  with  honors  from  Smith  College,  and  her  son  is 
a  student  at  the  Institute  of  Technology  in  Worcester. 

Calista  Church  was  born  in  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  June  29,  185 1. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Church  and  Jemima  Boomer. 
Joseph  Church's  ancestors  came  to  New  England  with  George 
Winthrop  in  1630.  Jemima  Boomer  descended  from  Martin 
Boomer,  who  was  born  in  Freetown,  Mass.,  in  1734. 


They 


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Calista  entered  the  Oread  in  1869  and  remained  until   1871. 

On  November  23,  1875,  she  was  married  at  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  to 

A.  Frank  Cottrell,  who  is  Superintendent  of  the  works  of  the 

American  Fisheries  Company,  situ- 
ated at  Tiverton,  R.  I.  To  them 
have  been  born  five  children.  Mary, 
born  in  Tiverton,  R.  L,  on  February 
27,  1877,  was  graduated  from  the 
B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School  in 
Fall  River,  and  was  married  on 
June  27,  1900,  to  Doctor  A.  Chase 
Sanford.  She  lived  in  Newport, 
R.  L,  until  her  death,  which  oc- 
curred on  April  19,  1902.  She  left 
a  little  daughter,  Cora  Gertrude 
Sanford,  who  was  born  on  March 
10,  1902. 
Mrs.    Cottrell's    second    daughter,    Gertrude,    was    born    at 

Tiverton,  R.  I.,  on  April  29,  1880.     After  attending  school  in 

Tiverton   she   studied   in   Shoemaker   and   Clark's   Commercial 

College  in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  from  which  she  was  graduated. 

On  March  31,   1903,  she  was  married  to  Charles  J.   Summer, 

and  lives  in  Tiverton,  R.  I. 

The  third  and  fourth  children,  a 

son  and  a  daughter,  were  twins  and 

were  born  at  Portsmouth,  R.  L,  on 

January  14,   1885.      The  daughter, 

Calista  C,  is  now  attending  the  B. 

M.  C.  Durfee  High  School  in  Fall 

River. 

The  son,  A.  Frank,  Jr.,  received 

his  earl}-  education  at  the  District 

School    in    Tiverton,    R.    I.,    then 

studied   one  year  at   the   Grammar 

School   and  three  at  the  B.   M.   C. 

Durfee   I  Ugh   School.      He  is  now 

studying  at  the  Worcester  Academy 

School  of  Technology. 

The  fifth  child,  a  son,  James  T.,  was  born  at  Portsmouth, 

R.  1.,  on  August  8,  1886.     He  is  attending  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee 

1 1 it-li  School  at  Fall  River. 


and   preparing   for  the 


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Mrs.  Cottrell  is  very  much  interested  in  the  charitable  work 
of  the  Central  Baptist  Church,  which  she  attends.  From  her 
days  at  the  Oread  until  the  present  time  she  has  "lived  the  life 
of  the  average  woman  with  plenty  to  keep  heart  and  hands 
full." 

Address :   Mrs.  A.  Frank  Cottrell,  Tiverton,  R.  I. 


Sarah  Ellen  Clapp,  sister  of  Mary  and  Elizabeth  Clapp,  both 
of  whom  attended  the  Oread  in  Mr.  Thayer's  administration, 
was  born  in  South  Boston,  August  8,  1847.  an<^  cnccl  m  Dor- 
chester, May  13,  1896.  She  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1870-71. 
June  10,  1873,  she  was  married  to 
Samuel  Newman  Chittenden,  a 
grocer,  and  had  five  children,  all 
born  in  Dorchester :  Roger  Clapp 
on  April  1,  1874;  Julia  Ingraham, 
on  June  4.  1877;  David  Clapp  on 
September  16,  1878 ;  Went  worth 
Newman  on  June  1,  1880 ;  and  Mary 
Tucker  on  May  6,  1883.  Roger 
was  graduated  from  the  English 
High  School,  Boston,  in  1892,  from 
the  advanced  class  in  1893,  from 
Harvard  University  in  1897,  and  is  now  teaching  in  the  De 
Meritte  School,  Boston.  He  was  married  to  Maude  Foster  of 
Dorchester,  December  23,  1901.  Julia  was  graduated  from  the 
High  School  in  Roxbury  in  1896.  David  received  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Agricultural  Science  from  Harvard  University 
in  1902,  and  is  now  connected  with  the  farm  at  Amherst  Agri- 
cultural College.  Wentworth  was  graduated  from  the  Mechanic 
Arts  High  School,  Boston,  in  1900,  and  is  now  a  civil  engineer 
in  Boston.  Mary  was  educated  in  the  Boston  schools,  and  is 
now  teaching  in  Claremont,  N.  H. 


Ella  Mandana  Cole,  daughter  of  Robert  Henry  and  Adelia 
(Ammidown)  Cole,  was  born  in  Southbridge.  Mass.,  April  22, 
1846.  Her  ancestry  on  her  father's  side  was  English  and 
Scotch-Irish,  on  her  mother's  French-Huguenot  and  Scotch. 


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Miss  Cole  entered  the  Oread  in  1865,  and  remained  two  years. 
With  the  exception  of  some  months  spent  in  study  in  Boston, 
and  a  few  trips  North,  West  and  South,  she  has  been  at  home 


since  leaving  school,  busy  with  home  duties  and  the  care  of 
invalid  relatives.  She  was  a  teacher  in  the  Southbridge  High 
School  for  a  little  more  than  a  year,  about  1870. 

She  has  been  interested  in  church  work  when  time  and 
strength  would  permit. 

Address :    Southbridge,  Mass. 

Ida  Graciella  Converse  attended  the  Oread  from  September, 
1874.  to  the  spring  of  1875.  She  was  born  at  Stafford, 
Conn.,  February  24,  1858,  the  daughter  of  Alfred  W.  and  Julia 
(Orcutt)  Converse.  The  Converse  family  trace  their  ancestry 
back  to  Roger  de  Coigneries  of  France  and  Durham,  England, 
who  was  born  in  1010.  Another  ancestor,  Edward  Converse, 
built  the  first  house  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  having  come  to  this 
country  with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1630. 

Ida  Converse  has  spent  most  of  her  life  quietly  at  her  home 
in  Windsor  Locks,  Conn.. 


Fannie  Miller  Cooper,  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Cooper,  D.D., 
a  Baptist  clergyman,  and  Mary  E.  (Palmer)  Cooper,  was  born 
in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.,  and  came  to  the  Oread  in  187 1  from 
Rondout,  N.  Y.     She  was  a  pupil  there  until  1873. 


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Miss  Cooper,  after  leaving  school,  lived  in  Flint  and  Detroit, 
Mich.,  making  a  visit  to  Europe  in  1884.  In  1887  she  was 
married  in  Detroit  to  Joseph  Addison  Warren.  Mr.  Warren 
is  a  manufacturer  of  pianos  and  organs,  being  proprietor  of  the 
Clough  &  Warren  Company,  which  was  established  in  Detroit, 
but  which  was  removed,  after  a  disastrous  fire  in  February, 
1899,  to  Adrian,  Mich.  Mrs.  Warren  has  three  children,  besides 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  Warren  by  a  former  marriage,  who  is  as 
dear  to  her  as  her  own.  This  daughter,  Charlotte,  born  March 
5,  1876,  was  married  to  Dr.  L.  J.  Goux  of  Detroit,  and  is  living 
in  that  city.  The  three  other  children,  Joseph  Addison,  Jr., 
born  November  27,  1888,  Mary  Palmer,  born  September  7, 
1890,  and  Samuel  Cooper,  born  June  24,  1892,  are  still  in  school. 

Mrs.  Warren  has  been  active  in  church  work,  and  while  in 
Detroit  was  on  several  of  its  charitable  boards.  She  is  inter- 
ested in  home  missions,  and  has  been  for  years  an  officer  in  the 
Woman's  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society  of  Michigan.  She 
has  also  identified  herself  with  woman's  club  work  in  Detroit 
and  Adrian. 

Address :  Mrs.  Joseph  A.  Warren,  105  West  Maumee  St., 
Adrian,  Mich. 


Eleanor  A.  Corbett  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  graduating  class  of  1876. 
but  she  was  obliged  to  leave  the 
Oread  the  winter  before  her  grad- 
uation, because  of  illness,  and  soon 
died  at  her  home  in  Xewport,  R.  I. 


Lillian  P.  Crawford  was  born  at  Stafford  Springs,  Conn., 
in  1858.  Her  father  was  William  M.  Crawford,  and  her 
mother  Jannette  A.  Potter. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  April.  1874,  remaining  only  until 
June  of  the  same  year.  She  was  married  November  21,  1877, 
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to  John  A.  Foster.  He  is  a  farmer  and  a  graduate  of  Wood- 
stock and  Colchester  Academies.  He  entered  Yale,  but  illness 
prevented  his  graduating. 

They  have  three  children:  William  A.,  born  March  14,  1879; 
Grant  C,  born  July  19,  1880;  and  Mabel  A.,  born  August 
24,  1881. 

William  is  a  travelling  salesman  for  E.  A.  Buck,  Palmer, 
Mass.     Grant  and  Mabel  live  at  home. 

Address :    Mrs.  John  A.  Foster,  Stafford  Springs,  Conn. 

Nettie  Crawford,  daughter  of  Elias  B.  and  Jane  T.  Crawford, 
was  born  September  21,  1850.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868, 
remaining  two  years.  After  leaving  school  she  studied  music, 
and  became  a  public  singer.  She  was  married  June  14,  1876, 
at  Worcester,  to  A.  Harry  Stone,  Cashier  in  the  Mechanics 
National  Bank  of  Worcester.  She  had  two  children :  Nellie 
Crawford,  born  August  24,  1880,  and  Arthur  Crawford,  born 
July  11,  1888.  Nellie  is  a  graduate  of  the  Worcester  High 
School  and  has  been  one  year  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College.  Arthur 
is  still  in  the  public  schools. 

Mrs.  Stone  died  on  January  22,  1905, 

Abbie  Willis  Crosby,  the  daughter  of  Uberto  Crocker  and 
Mary  C.  (Stevens)  Crosby,  was  born  in  Bethlehem,  N.  H.,  in 
1859.  I11  l<&73>  at  tne  age  of  fourteen,  she  entered  the  Oread, 
and  remained  there  for  two  years. 

Since  leaving  school  she  has  lived  at  home. 

Address  :   Manchester,  N.  H. 

Abbie  A.  Cummings  was  born  at  Paris  Hill,  Me.,  June  12, 
1847,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Simeon  C.  and  Emeline  S. 
(Thayer)  Cummings.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  1866- 
1868.  In  the  tOAvn  of  her  birth,  May  14,  1873,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Henry  A.  Hersey,  who  is  connected  with  the  American 
Tobacco  Company  in  New  York  City. 

Address:  Mrs.  Henry  A.  Mersey,  in  Fifth  Ave.,  New 
York    City. 

Mary  Dingley  Curtis,  who  attended  the  Oread  one  year, 
1868-69,   was   the   daughter   of    Asa    l\   and    Achsah    (Lewis) 


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Curtis,  and  was  born  in  Medford,  Mass.,  October  7,  185 1. 
She  was  married  October  7,  1874,  to  'William  H.  Breed,  who 
is  in  business  in  Boston.     He  is  Deacon  of  the  Clarendon  Street 


Church,  and  a  prominent  Baptist  in  Boston  and  vicinity.  Two 
daughters  were  born  to  them:  Florence  Curtis,  born  May  31, 
1877,  in  West  Medford,  Mass.,  is  a  Wellesley  graduate  of  the 
class  of  180,0, ;  Ethel  Abbot  was  born  in  West  Medford,  Septem- 
ber 7,  1879. 

Mrs.  Breed  died  of  appendicitis  August  24,  1885,  at  Ottawa, 
Canada,  while  traveling  with  her  husband. 


Abbie  Maria  Cutler  was  born  in  Shrewsbury.  Mass.,  Octo- 
ber 27,  1854.  Her  parents  were  Aaron  Goodale  Cutler  and 
Lucy  Fay  Xourse.  Her  father  was  a  contractor  and  has  held 
various  offices  of  trust  in  the  town.  Her  mother's  people  were 
descendants  of  the  celebrated  Rebecca  Xourse,  who  was  accused 
of  witchcraft  and  hanged  in  Salem. 

Miss  Cutler  was  a  student  at  the  Oread  during  the  years  1873 
and  1874.  and  for  some  time  thereafter  taught  the  Grammar 
School  in  Shrewsbury.  August  4,  1875,  s^ie  was  married  to  Dr. 
J.  Milton  Coburn.  a  prominent  physician  of  Shrewsbury.  In 
1881  she  removed  with  her  husband  to  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  where 
she  lived  for  twelve  years.  She  was  prominent  in  church  and 
missionary  work,  acting  for  several  years  as  Chaplain  of  the 
Windham  Count}'  Jail.  During  this  time  two  sons  were  born: 
Harrie  on  May  26,  1882,  and  Aaron  on  June  19,  1884.      They 


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were  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  at  Phillips  Exeter  Acad- 
emy. The  elder  is  now  in  the  merchant  marine  service,  and 
is  an  officer  on  the  Spreckels  Line  of  steamships.     The  younger 

is  a  student  at  Trinity  College  at 
Hartford.  Conn.  In  1892  Dr.  Co- 
burn  sold  his  practice  in  Brooklyn 
and  moved  to  South  Norwalk,  Conn. 
He  is  prominent  in  political  and 
social  affairs,  being  ex-Mayor  of 
the  city,  Secretary  of  the  Mayors' 
Association  of  the  State  of  Con- 
necticut, Physician  and  Surgeon  of 
the  New  York,  Xew  Haven  and 
Hartford  Railroad.  City  Physician, 
and  a  prominent  yachtsman. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Coburn  are  promi- 
nent members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church,  the  Doctor  having  been  Chairman  of  its  Wor- 
ship Committee,  and  Mrs.  Coburn  one  of  the  Church  Council, 
and  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  School. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Friday 
Afternoon  Club,  the  strongest  lit- 
erary club  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  state,  Past  President  of  the 
Norwalk  Union  of  Christian  En- 
deavor societies,  and  Secretary  of 
the  Relief  Committee  for  the  Ame- 
lioration of  the  Condition  of  the 
City's  Poor.  She  has  also  con- 
tributed many  articles  to  the  public 
press  on  municipal  and  philanthropic 
subjects. 

1  I c-r  home  is  known  as  the  "Colonial  Cottage."  its  thir- 
teen rooms  being  filled  with  rare  specimens  of  colonial  fur- 
niture. 

Address:  Mrs.  J.  .Milton  Coburn,  55  Main  St.,  South,  South 
Norwalk,  ( !onn. 


Annie  W.  Daggett,  daughter  of  Dr.  E.  A.  Daggett  and  Ruth 
Waters,  bis  wife,  came  to  the  Oread  from  Waldoboro,  Me.,  in 


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1866.  and  remained  one  year.  She  was  born  in  Waldoboro  on 
April  28,  1847. 

Being"  of  frail  health  she  was  unable  to  take  the  full  course 
of  study  at  the  Oread,  and  devoted 
her  time  chiefly  to  music.  Her 
fellow  pupils  recall  her  as  refined 
and  gentle  of  manner,  naturally 
reserved,  and  devotedly  attached  to 
her  chosen  friends. 

She  was  married  November  [ . 
1876,  to  John  B.  Wood  worth,  and 
they  lived  in  Worcester,  where  Mr. 
Woodworth  was  in  business.  Thev 
had  no  children. 

After  twenty-five  years  of  happy 
married  life,  Mr.  Woodworth  died. 
Annie's  gentle  nature  was  unable  to 

bear  the  loss  of  the  one  who  had  been  so  much  to  her,  and  she 
did  not  long  survive  him.  She  died  on  February  6,  1902,  at 
Worcester.  A  brother,  Mr.  Athern  Daggett,  lives  at  Waldo- 
boro, Me. 


Isabelle  R.  Daniels  was  born  in  Oxford,  Mass.,  June  22, 
185 1,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Albert  H.  and  Julia  M.  (Read) 
Daniels. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1870,  and  left  in  1871. 
For  many  years  she  has  been  engaged  in  teaching  in  the  public 
schools. 

Address:    586  Beech  St.,  Manchester,  N.  H. 


Elizabeth  Bigelow  Davis  was  born  in  Xorthboro,  Mass., 
on  February  16,  1853,  and  was  the  daughter  of  George  Clinton 
Davis  and  Mary  Elizabeth  Bigelow,  both  of  English  descent. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868.  After  leaving,  on  account  of  ill- 
ness, she  C(  mtinued  her  education  by  attending  boarding  schools 
at  Darien,  Conn.,  and  Yonkers,  N.  Y..  and  by  studying  kinder- 
garten in  Xew  York.  Later  she  taught  kindergarten  at  Staten 
Island.  At  Xorthboro,  Mass..  on  March  27,  1878,  she  was 
married  to  Walter  Lambert  of  Xew  York  City,  who  has  been 


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for  many  years  in  the  banking  house  of  Baring  Magoun  &  Com- 
pany, 15  Wall  street,  New  York.  Five  children  were  born  to 
them:  Walter  Davis,  born  at  Staten  Island,  January  12,  1879; 
Katherine  Porter,  born  at  New  York,  June  4,  1881,  died  in 
October  of  the  same  year;  Mary  Bigelow,  born  December  18, 
1882;  Marjorie  Willard,  born  April  23,  1886;  and  Richard 
Davis,  born  March  20,  1895.  Walter  Davis  was  graduated 
from  Harvard  College  in  1900,  and  the  following  year  studied 
for  and  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  He  is  now  with  the  Coast 
and  Geodetic  Survey  at  Washington.  Mary  Bigelow  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Port  Richmond,  Staten  Island,  High  School  in 
1900,  and  from  Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1902,  after 
taking  the  course  of  Applied  Design. 

Mrs.  Lambert  is  a  member  of  the  Public  Education  Associa- 
tion, of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children, 
and  of  a  literary  club  known  as  the  Fortnightly.  She  is  also 
an  active  worker  in  her  church. 

Address:  Mrs.  Walter  Lambert,  120  Castleton  Ave.,  West 
Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 


Harriet  B.  Davis,  who  was  at  the  Oread  in  1867  and  ii 
was  born  in  Somersworth,  N.  H.,  in  1851,  the  daughter  of 
Alfred  and  Chloe  (Parker)  Davis.  She  now  lives  at  391  Lex- 
ington St.,  Auburndale,  Mass. 

Julia  Georgiana  Davis  was  born  in  Northboro,  Mass.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  George  Clinton  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Bigelow)  Davis,  who  was  the  daughter  of  the  first  Walter 
Bigelow  of  Bigelow  Hill,  Worcester,  Mass.  The  ancestry  of 
the  three  families,  Davis,  Bigelow  and  Chandler,  is  almost  exclu- 
sively English,  and  from  earliest  colonial  times  their  record  has 
been  honorable  and,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  of  the  Wor- 
cester Chandlers,  who  were  Royalists,  but  at  the  same  time 
highly  respected,  they  have  always  been  staunch  patriots. 
Colonel  Timothy  Bigelow,  now  buried  on  Worcester  Common, 
led  a  detachment  of  Arnold's  expedition  to  Quebec ;  his  brother, 
David  Bigelow,  who  was  Mrs.  Chandler's  great-grandfather, 
was  on  the  Committee  of  Safety  in  Worcester.  The  Davis 
family   has   lone:  been    resident   in   Worcester   County,   having: 


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settled  there  before  the  Revolutionary  War.  Many  of  the 
family  have  been  prominent  citizens,  and  among  the  number  are 
Governor  John  Davis,  who  was  also  United  States  Senator, 
Hon.  Isaac  Davis  of  Worcester,  and  the  late  Mr.  George 
Clinton  Davis  of  Xorthboro,  who  was  Mrs.  Chandler's  father. 

Julia  entered  the  Oread  in  Septem- 
ber, 1868,  but  on  account  of  illness 
was  obliged  to  leave  the  following 
April,  and  did  not  return.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1881,  in  Northboro,  Mass., 
she  was  married  to  Charles  Colby 
Chandler,  a  civil  engineer,  and  a 
graduate  of  the  Worcester  Institute 
of  Technology.  He  has  held  im- 
portant positions  on  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  and  Quincy  and  other 
railroads,  and  has  located  several 
railroads  in  the  West  and  South. 
Before  his  marriage  he  was  with  the  Atchison,  Topeka  and 
Santa  Fe  railroad.  At  the  present  time  he  is  making  import- 
ant harbor  improvements  at  Tampico,  Mexico. 

Two  children  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chandler.  The 
elder  daughter,  Gladys  Winthrop,  was  born  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
in  May.  1883.  She  is  attending  Bryn  Mawr  College,  where  she 
has  a  scholarship  won  by  high  standing  in  the  Philadelphia 
schools.  The  second  daughter,  Helniz  Bigelow,  was  born  in 
January,  1892,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  She  is  to  be  educated  in 
Natural  Sciences,  and  expects  to  attend  a  school  of  practical 
horticulture  and  gardening. 

Mrs.  Chandler  is  particularly  interested  in  foods,  cookery, 
and  "ethno  botany.''  She  often  writes  articles  for  domestic 
science  magazines,  and  addresses  farmers'  clubs  and  scientific 
assemblies  upon  those  topics.  She  also  writes  for  the  Inde- 
pendent. Little  Ffflks,  Wide  World,  and  other  magazines  on  a 
variety  of  subjects. 

Mrs.  Chandler  may  be  addressed  at  711  Walnut  St.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 


Addie  J.  Day,  who  attended  the  Oread  the  school  year  of 
1872-73,  was  the  daughter  of  Josephus  and  Helen  (Bradish) 


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Day  of  South  Royalston,  Mass.,  in  which  town  Addie  was  born 
on  June  7,  1855.  She  was  married  in  South  Royalston  on 
October  n,  1876,  to  Edward  G.  Beals.  They  have  one  son, 
Harry,  born  in  Phillipston,  Mass.,  September  21,  1877.  He  is 
married  and  has  one  son,  Edward  Earl. 

Mrs.  Beals  has  been  active  in  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  and  has 
been  organist  of  the  Second  Congregational  Church.  She  has 
written  articles  for  the  local  paper. 

Address :   Mrs.  Edward  G.  Beals,  South  Rovalston,  Mass. 


Emma   Alice   Day  attended  the  Oread  from  the  spring  of 

1 87 1  until  June,  1872.  James  Well- 
ington Day  was  her  father,  and  her 
mother's  maiden  name  was  Eliza- 
beth Upham.  She  was  born  in  Ux- 
bridge,  Mass.,  March  28,  1852,  and 
died  of  quick  consumption  July  28, 
1 881. 

She  was  married  in  Uxbridge  to 
William  Prest  on  July  8,  1880.  Mr. 
Prest  is  a  lawyer.  Mrs.  Prest  left 
a  daughter  Alice,  who  was  only  a 
few  months  old  at  the  time  of  her 
mother's  death. 


Ella  M.  Dean  was  born  in  North  Brookfield,  Mass.,  February 
10,  1854.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  W.  and  Matilda 
E.  (Witham)  Dean,  both  natives  of  Maine. 

Ella  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1873,  and  left  in  June, 
1875.  She  was  married  in  Worcester,  November  22,  1876,  to 
George  J.  Merritt,  a  bookkeeper.  They  have  one  child,  Flor- 
ence May,  born  in  Worcester,  August  24,  1878.  She  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Worcester,  and  graduated  from 
the  Classical  High  School  in  1897.  She  has  since  given  her 
attention  to  the  study  of  vocal  and  instrumental  music,  the 
former  under  Wilhelm  Heinrich  of  Boston. 

Address :  Mrs.  George  J.  Merritt,  21  Woodland  St.,  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 


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Abbie  L.  Dispeau,  daughter  of  Joseph  Edward  and  Abbie 
L.  (Walker)  Dispeau,  was  born  in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1S46.  Her  mother  was  a 
descendant  of  John  Howland,  who 
came  over  in  the  Mayflower,  and 
was  related  by  marriage  to  Priscilla 
and  Miles  Standish.  Abbie  was  at 
the  Oread  from  November,  1865, 
till  July,  1867.  After  leaving 
school  she  taught  gymnastics  for  a 
while  at  Highland  Institute  in 
Petersham,  Mass.  She  was  espe- 
cially proficient  in  instrumental 
music  at  the  Oread  and  also  a 
singer.  She  has  always  found 
pleasure  in  anything  connected  with 
that  branch  of  art.  Her  father  died  in  1891  ;  since  then  she 
has  been  caring  for  her  mother. 

Address:   7  Miller  St.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 


Alice  A.  Dispeau  was  born  in 
Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  July  30,  1850, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  George 
A.  and  Mary  Jane  (Tillotson)  Dis- 
peau. She  entered  the  Oread  in 
September,  1865,  and  remained 
until  1870.  She  was  a  girl  of  win- 
some character  and  manner,  and 
her  early  death  a  short  time  after 
leaving  the  Oread  seemed  more 
than  usually  sad.  She  died  in 
Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  October  30, 
1871. 


Anna  Morse  Dunton  was  born  in  Boston  in  June,  1846. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  A.  Dunton  of  Boylston  Centre, 
.Mass.,  and  of  Jane  Weeman  of  Standish,  Me.  Her  parents 
lived  in  Boston  until  her  father's  death,  which  occurred  when 
she,  their  only  child,  was  one  week  old.  Jane  Weeman,  her 
mother,  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Phoebe  (Spencer) 
Weeman,  granddaughter  of  William  Spencer,  who  was  drum- 


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mer  in  Captain  John  Fuller's  Company,  Colonel  William  Shep- 
ard's  Regiment,  Fourth  Muster  Roll,  dated  York  Heights,  for 
October,  November  and  December,   1781. 

Miss  Dunton  entered  the  Oread  in 
1869,  and  was  not  only  a  pupil,  but 
also  an  instructor  in  the  school 
where  she  taught  music.  Before 
entering  the  Oread  she  studied  for 
a  while  at  the  Worcester  Academy, 
then  became  a  student  of  music  un- 
der the  direction  of  Mr.  Rice,  Mr. 
Sumner  and  Mr.  B.  D.  Allen  of 
Worcester.  Later  she  taught  music 
in  and  around  Worcester,  and  gave 
concerts.  For  a  time  she  was  or- 
ganist in  Shrewsbury  and  Boylston 
Congregational  churches.  On  De- 
cember 26,  1876,  at  Boylston  Centre  she  was  married  to  John 
A.  Ware,  a  business  man.  To  them  was  born  one  child,  but  it 
lived  only  two  weeks.  Mrs.  Ware  was  a  noble  woman  of  a 
wonderfully  amiable  disposition.  She  was  a  devoted  worker 
in  the  church  which  she  attended.  Her  death  took  place  in 
September,  1879. 

Sara  Brown  Eddy,  daughter  of  Samuel  Eddy  of  Worcester, 
and  his  wife,  Hannah  Adams  Barrett,  was  born  in  Worcester, 
January  20,  185 1.  Her  father  was  born  in  Auburn  on  a  farm 
which  has  been  in  the  family  since  1720.  He  was  a  direct 
descendant  of  John  Eddy,  the  Pilgrim,  who  with  his  brother 
Samuel  came  over  to  this  country  in  the  ship  Handmaid  in 
1631.  FTe  settled  in  Watertown  and  died  there  at  the  age  of 
ninety.  Her  mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Oliver  Barrett, 
who  was  killed  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution  at  the  battle  of 
Stillwater,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Eddy  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  1866  to  1869.  She 
was  married  in  June,  1873,  at  her  home  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  to 
Harry  N.  Milliken,  who  is  in  the  crockery  business.  He  is  also 
a  credit  man  and  Notary  Public.  Her  children  are  :  H.  Eugene, 
born  in  Newtonville,  Mass.,  May  2,  1875;  Edith  Eddy,  born 
in  Newtonville,  December  27,  1876;  Samuel  Barrett,  born  in 
Newtonville,  July  10,  1889;  and  Philip  Lazell,  born  in  Newton- 
ville, March  22,  1892. 


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Mrs.  Milliken  has  been  a  member  of  the  Every  Saturday 
Club,  which  is  thirty  years  old,  and  entirely  educational.  It 
is  composed  of  members  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  doc- 
tors, lawyers,  teachers,  etc.  She  has  written  the  following- 
papers  for  that  club :  "Dependent  and  Defective  Classes," 
"Scotch  Character  and  Practical  Philanthropy,"  "The  Ladies 
of  the  White  House,"  "The  Crusades,"  "Weimar,  the  Home 
of  Goethe,"  "Arlington,  the  Home  of  General  Lee,"  "Thoreau 
the  Friend  of  Emerson,"  and  "The  Puritans."  She  has  also 
written  papers  for  the  Woman's  Guild,  the  Missionary  Society 
and  other  associations. 

Address :  Mrs.  H.  X.  Milliken,  Russell  Court,  Xewtonville, 
Mass. 

Jennie  Louise  Eldred  was  born  in 
New  York,  July  27,  1857,  and  at- 
tended the  Oread  during  the  year 
1871-72.  After  leaving  the  Oread 
she  was  a  pupil  at  Miss  Ava  Williams' 
School  for  two  years.  May  24,  1877, 
she  was  married  at  her  home  in  Wor- 
cester to  John  Bacon  Minor.  Mr. 
Minor  is  a  box  manufacturer  (of 
the  firm  of  Minor  &  Corbin,  New 
Britain,  Conn.),  and  also  president 
of  the  National  Spring  Company, 
New  Britain. 
She  has  had  five  children  :  Ursula, 

born    in    New    Britain,    August    5, 

1878,  studied  at  home,  at  the  Hill- 
side  High   School    (New   Britain), 

and  at   Mrs.   Cady's   School    ( New 

Haven),    is    a    graduate    of    Smith 

College  (in  1902),  and  was  married 

in  September,  1903 ;    Elsie,  born  in 

New    Britain,    February    10,    1885, 

died     January     23,     1892;      James 

Henry,   born   in    Plainville,    March 

16,   1887,  's  studying  in  the  Wor- 
cester Classical  High  School  in  the 

class    of    1905 ;    John    Bacon,  Jr., 

born  in  Plainville,  February  1,  1896,  and  Eldred  Liscomb,  born 


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in  Plainville,  September  16,  1898  (see  picture),  are  doing  their 
lessons  at  home  still. 

She  has  been  a  devoted  mother  and  has  herself  taken  charge 
of  the  early  education  of  all  her  children. 

Address :    Mrs.  John  B.  Minor,  Plainville,  Conn. 

Mary  Ellsworth,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Caroline  (Paige) 
Ellsworth,  was  born  June  8,  185 1,  at  Barre,  Mass.  She  attended 
the  Oread  a  part  of  the  year  1867-68. 

On  May  2,  1871,  she  was  married  at  Barre  to  Charles  H. 
Osgood,  a  contractor  and  builder.  They  had  one  child,  Mabel 
E.  Osgood,  born  in  June,  1873,  who  has  attended  the  Normal 
School  in  Worcester. 

Mr.  Osgood  died  in  Barre,  October  17,  1904. 

Address :   Mrs.  Mary  E.  Osgood,  Barre,  Mass. 

Alice  L.  Everett  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  1868  to  1870. 
Her  home  was  in  Norwood,  Mass.,  where  her  family  held  an 
honorable  social  position.  She  was  married  to  Herbert  Rhodes 
of  Norwood,  and  had  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  living. 

Mrs.  Rhodes  died  of  consumption  about  1894,  in  Norwood. 

Anna  Turner  Farnsworth  was  born  July  31,  1856,  in  Benicia, 
Cal.  Her  father  was  E.  Seymour  Farnsworth,  and  her  mother 
was  Mary  Emma  (Weaver)  Farnsworth,  both  of  New  Eng- 
land birth.  Her  father's  family  were  among  the  early  settlers 
of  Lynn,  and  first  proprietors  of  Groton,  Mass.  When  Groton 
was  assaulted  by  the  Indians  they  took  refuge  in  Concord, 
but  returned  and  rebuilt  their  homes  as  soon  as  it  was  deemed 
prudent.  Later  her  ancestors  settled  in  Chesterfield,  N.  H., 
and  in  Brattleboro,  Vt. 

1  [er  mother's  family  were  early  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony,  and  some  of  them  accompanied  Roger  Williams  to 
Rhode  Island,  settling  in  Providence  and  East  Greenwich. 
(  Ml uts  went  to  Connecticut  and  helped  to  settle  New  London 
and  Groton.  Anna's  family  lived  in  New  England  until  1851, 
when  her  father  went  to  California  and  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company. 

Anna  entered  the  Oread  in  [871.  After  leaving  she  studied 
at  the  San  Francisco  School  of  Design,  and  for  several  years 


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taught  oil,  water  color,  and  china  painting.  She  was  married 
March  1,  1884,  to  Theodore  Gray  of  San  Francisco,  who  is 
connected  with  the  Selby  Smelting  &  Lead  Company.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  University  of  California  with  the  highest 
honors,  in  1877.     His  degrees  are  A.B.  and  LL.B. 

Their  only  son,  Harold  Farnsworth,  was  horn  June  29,  1885, 
at  San  Francisco,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  He  is 
now  studying  at  the  University  of  California. 

Mrs.  Gray  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  the  California 
Ceramic  Club,  and  is  interested  in  all  club  work. 

Address :  Mrs.  Theodore  Gray,  140  First  Ave.,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Jennie  B.  Fay  attended  the  Oread  in  1874.  She  was  born 
at  Charlton,  Mass.,  in  1856,  and  died  of  consumption  in  1877. 

She  was  the  younger  of  the  two  daughters  of  Dr.  Charles 
M.  Fay  of  Charlton.  Her  mother  was  one  of  the  Spurr  family 
of  the  same  place. 

After  leaving  school  she  made  her  home  with  her  sister, 
Mrs.  George  F.  Daniels  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  at  whose  home  she 
died.     She  is  buried  in  Oxford. 

Carrie  Louise  Fellows  studied  at  the  Oread  from  the  fall 
of  1873  to  the  spring  of  1874.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Rev. 
Silenus  H.  and  Sylvia  (  Xewell )  Fellows,  both  natives  of  Dur- 
ham, X.  Y.,  where  Carrie  was  born  on  June  19,  1858.  Rev. 
Mr.  Fellows  has  held  the  pastorate  at  Wauregan,  Conn.,  since 
1859,  a  record  for  long  and  useful  service  in  one  place  unsur- 
passed by  any  Congregational  minister  now  living  in  Xew 
England. 

Miss  Fellows  bas  lived  a  quiet  life  at  home,  following  in  the 
footsteps  of  her  kindly  and  much  revered  father,  and  doing 
much  good  in  church  and  town. 

Address  :   Wauregan,  Conn. 

Susie  A.  Felton  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  1867  to  1870, 
and  part  of  this  time  she  was  also  a  teacher  at  the  Oread  High 
and  Grammar  School.  She  was  to  have  graduated  with  the 
class  of  187 1,  but  in  the  fall  of  1870  her  father's  house  was  the 


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scene  of  a  typhoid  fever  epidemic.  She  came  home  to  help  her 
mother  care  for  the  invalids,  was  herself  stricken  down  by  the 
disease,   and  died  after  a  short  illness  at  the  age  of  twenty. 

She  was  a  niece  of  Miss 
Ava  Williams,  well  known 
to  Oreades,  and  a  brother, 
Arthur  Felton,  is  now  liv- 
ing at  233  Highland  Ave., 
West  Newton,  Mass. 

Susie  was  a  girl  of  more 
than  ordinary  promise.    She 
had    a    fine    presence,    pos- 
sessed a  mature  mind,  and 
in    character    was    strong, 
original,  dependable.     She  was  one  whom  we  could  ill  afford  to 
lose,  but  one  whom  it  was  a  rare  privilege  to  have  known,  even 
for  a  brief  period. 

In  the  picture  shown,  Susie  is  the  girl  on  the  right. 

Rosa  Bonheur  Ferrin,  daughter  of  Daniel  Fay  and  Lois 
Perkins  (Washburn)  Ferrin,  was  born  in  Hartland,  Vt.,  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1 861.     She  spent  the  school  year  of   1877-78  at  the 


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<  )read.     May  10,  1882,  she  was  married  to  Henry  Clay  Holland 
1  >f  I  linsdale,  X.  1 1.,  who  is  an  innkeeper  and  who  represented  his 
town  in  the  Legislature  in  [903.     She  has  one  son,  Roger  Ferrin, 
born  August  18,  1889,  now  a  student  in  the  High  School. 
Address:    Mrs.   Henry  ( '.   Holland,  Hinsdale,  N.  H. 


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Minnie  C.  Fisher,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary  (Estey) 
Fisher,  was  born  January  23,  1847, 
at  Clarendon,  Vt.  She  entered  the 
Oread  in  the  fall  of  1864,  and  left 
in  June,  1865.  She  resided  in  Bos- 
ton till  1880,  and  then  removed  to 
Brattleboro,  Vt.  In  1878  she  lost 
the  sight  of  one  eye,  and  in  1885 
that  of  the  other.  In  1896  she  be- 
came totally  blind.  We  are  told  she 
is  wonderfully  happy  in  spite  of  her 
affliction,  and  does  many  things  about 
the  house,  even  crocheting  and  sew- 
ing. She  belongs  to  the  Sunshine 
Society  and  also  to  the  King's  Daughters,  and  the  Rebekahs. 

Address :    22  Birge  St.,  Brattleboro,  Vt. 


Abbie  Frances  Fiske  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  October 
6,  1854,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Sanford  and  Lucy  Ann 
(Tourtellotte)  Fiske.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September, 
1 87 1,  and  remained  one  year. 

She  was  married  February  20,  1873, to  Orville  Williams  Judd, 
a  dentist,  and  came  at  once  to  Westboro,  Mass.,  where  they  have 
lived  ever  since.  Dr.  Judd  is  a  quiet  man  of  literary  tastes, 
successful  in  his  profession,  and  has  never  desired  public  office. 
He  is  Senior  Warden  of  St.  Stephen's  Episcopal  Church  and 
one  of  three  trustees  of  the  (mission)  church  property. 

Mrs.  Judd  is  an  active  worker  in  church  and  club  circles,  and 
has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Westboro  Public  Library  for  twenty- 
three  years. 

Address:  Mrs.  O.  W.  Judd.  J2  West  Main  St.,  Westboro. 
Mass. 


Marion  Louise  Fiske  was  burn  in  Worcester,  September  22, 
1853.  and  was  the  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Clara  M.  (Wood) 
Fiske.     She  entered  the  Oread  in  1869. 

On  October  21,  1873.  she  was  married  at  Worcester  to 
Frank  W.  Bemis,  a  provision  dealer.  On  August  6.  1880,  at 
Worcester,   a   son.   Harrv   Fiske,   was  born   to  them.     He  was 


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graduated  from  the  English  High  School  of  Worcester  in  June, 
1900. 

Address :   Mrs.  Frank  W.  Bemis,  97  Piedmont  St.,  Worcester, 
Mass. 


Pamelia  A.  Fitch  ("Mellie")  was  the  daughter  of  Ezra  Fitch 

and  his  wife,  Franzisca  W.  Vagt, 
who  was  a  teacher  at  the  Oread 
both  before  and  after  her  marriage 
to  Captain  Fitch.  Mellie  was  born 
in  Worcester,  February  13,  1856, 
and  attended  the  Oread  while  her 
mother  was  a  teacher  there.  She 
was  married  in  Worcester,  Septem- 
ber 14,  1881,  to  John  L.  Magee,  a 
business  man,  interested  in  the 
Magee  stoves.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Genevieve,  born  in  Chel- 
sea, Mass.,  May  27,  1883. 

Mrs.     Magee     has     done     much 
work  in  behalf  of  her  own  church. 

Address :    Mrs.  John  L.  Magee,  Duxburv,  Mass. 


Alice  J.  Flagg,  daughter  of  Levi 
L.  and  Caroline  E.  (Barnes)  Flagg, 
was  born  in  Boylston,  Mass.,  June 
7,  1857.  She  attended  the  Oread 
in  1875  and  1876.  In  Rochester, 
N.  H.,  April  2,  1883,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  George  Hazard,  and  four 
children  were  born  to  them;  Irving 
L.,  Lambert  M.,  (  His,  and  A.  Maude. 

Mrs.  Hazard  died  March  17,  1895, 
in  Boylston.  .Mass. 


Emma  J.  Flagg  was  born  in  Worcester,  April  23,  1857.  Her 
father  was  Joseph  W.  Flagg  and  her  mother  Caroline  A. 
(  Bartletl  )   Flagg. 


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Emma  and  her  mother,  who  was  then  the  Matron,  were  at 
the  Oread  one  year,  from  September,  1874,  until  June,  1875. 
After  leaving-  the  Oread  Emma  went  to  Boston  to  study  stenog- 
raphy, and  for  the  last  seven  years  of  her  life  was  assistant 
to  Rev.  Erastus  B.  Blakeslee,  publisher  of  graded  lessons  for 
Sabbath  School  work. 

She  was  never  strong,  but  her  ambition  kept  her  up  when 
she  was  not  able  to  work.  She  returned  to  her  mother's  home 
in  May,  1898,  for  a  year's  rest.  In  two  weeks  she  was  pros- 
trated with  acute  Bright's  disease.  She  recovered,  only  to  go 
down  again  and  again,  until  January  27,  1899,  she  passed 
away.  At  the  time  she  died  she  was  at  the  Sanitarium  in 
Baldwinsville,  Mass. 

Belle  Forbes,  daughter  of  George  and  Roxanna  (Doane) 
Forbes,  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Mass.,  July  29,  1850.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  1865  and  left  in  1866.  In  Brookfield,  on 
January  4,  1871,  she  was  married  to  Emmons  Wight  Twichell, 
a  manufacturer  and  contractor,  who  has  served  his  town  as 
Chairman  of  the  Selectmen  and  as  Road  Commissioner.  They 
have  had  five  children:  Louie  Belle,  born  July  21,  1872,  died 
July  29,  1872;  Bertha  Forbes,  born  June  7,  1875,  a  teacher  in 
the  public  schools  of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  George  Forbes,  born 
March  17,  1880,  died  March  5,  1901,  who  served  ten  months 
in  the  regular  army  in  Cuba  and  Porto  Rico ;  Roxy,  born 
November  8,  1882,  died  October  15,  1883;  W.  Lowell,  born 
May  28,  1888,  who  is  still  in  school.  Mrs.  Twichell  is 
interested   in   local   educational   and   charitable   work. 

Address :    Mrs.   Emmons  W.   Twichell,   Brookfield,   Mass. 

Mary  Abbie  Forbush,  daughter  of  Joseph  Whitman  and 
Abbie  P.  (Wears)  Forbush,  was  born  in  Westminster,  Mass., 
September  11,  1847. 

She  entered  the  Oread  from  Westminster  in  September, 
1865,  and  remained  for  two  years.  She  intended  to  continue 
her  course  at  the  Oread,  but  was  prevented  from  doing  so  by 
the  illness  and  death  of  her  mother  in  1867.  After  this  she 
remained  at  home  caring  for  her  father.  She  died  in  her 
twenty-third  year,  January  28,  1870. 
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Abbie  S.  Fowler  was  born  in  Northbridge,  Mass.  Her 
fatber  was  George  D.  Fowler  and  her  mother  Abigail  Adams. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1869  and  remained  until  1871.  Since 
that  time  she  has  been  active  in  all  work  in  which  she  could 
be  of  service. 

Address:    107  Mineral  Spring  Ave.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Amy  P.  Fowler  was  born  in  Mendon,  Mass.,  January  27, 
1850.  She  was  the  daughter  of  John  Milton  and  Jane  (Burl- 
ingame)  Fowler.     Her  father  was  one  of  a  familv  of  fourteen 


children,  and  was  educated  at  the  Friends  School  in  Providence, 
R.  I.  For  many  years  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist church,  but  later  he  united  with  the  Society  of  Friends. 
He  died  May  4,  1899.  His  father,  John  Fowler,  was  a  native 
of  Northbridge,  and  was  a  wealthy  farmer  and  prominent  in 
town  affairs. 

Miss  Fowler  attended  the  Mendon  High  School,  studied 
for  a  year  and  a  half  with  Mr.  J.  B.  Macomber  of  Uxbridge, 
and  entered  the  <  >read  in  [869,  where  she  remained  until  1870. 
After  leaving  the  Oread  she  taught  for  ten  years  in  Uxbridge, 
Northbridge  and  Millbury. 

(  >n  August  23,  1882,  she  was  married  to  John  C.  Rawson  of 
Uxbridge.  To  them  was  born  <  Ictober  28,  1883,  at  Uxbridge, 
a  -on  who  was  graduated  from  the  Uxbridge  Nigh  School  in 
1900.  lie  shows  much  literary  talent  and  besides  being  class 
poel  has  published  several  poems. 

Address:    Mrs.  Amy  P.  Rawson,  Uxbridge.  Mass. 


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Julia  Annabelle  Freeman,  daughter  of  James  1 1.  and  Amanda 
M.  (Farrington)  Freeman,  was  born  in  Franklin,  Mass.,  May 
l9>    l&53-      On  the  maternal    side   she   is   a   direct  descendant 

of  Jonathan  Fairbanks,  who  came 
from  England  in  1633  and  settled  in 
Dedham,  Mass.,  in  the  year  1636. 
She  is  eligible  to  membership  in 
the  D.  A.  R.  through  her  great- 
grandfather. Josiah  Farrington.  who 
served  for  six  years  and  seven 
months  in  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. Another  ancestor,  Samuel 
Colburn.  served  in  King  Philip's 
War.  and  still  another,  Samuel 
Fisher,  in  Colonial  Wars. 

Miss  Freeman  was  a  pupil  at  the 
(  'read  in  1873-74.  On  May  19,  1875.  she  was  married  to 
Edwin  A.  Lewis  of  Watkins,  X.  Y.,  a  newspaper  man  and 
author  of  several  dramas,  two  of  which  were  successfully  pro- 
duced and  managed  by  him.  He  served  in  Co.  F,  47th  Regi- 
ment from  Iowa  in  the  Civil  War,  and  at  its  close  held  the 
rank  of  Captain.  They  had  one  child,  Edwin  Ray.  born  in 
Franklin,  March  24.  1878.  He  graduated  at  the  Franklin  High 
School  and  at  Boston  University.  In  1901  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.D..  and  then  served  as 
House  Physician  in  the  Massachu- 
setts State  Homeopathic  Hospital  in 
Boston  for  eighteen  months. 

After  her  husband's  death  in  1888. 
Mrs.  Lewis  for  several  years  man- 
aged a  war  drama  for  the  relief  fund 
of  patriotic  societies.  ■ 

She  was  married  a  second  time  on 
January  12.  1899,  to  Amos  P.  Wood- 
ward, who  was  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Legislature  in 
[892-93.  Mrs.  Woodward  has  been 
for  three  years  President  of  the  Alden  Club.  She  still  lives  on 
the  old  homestead  where  she  was  born. 

Address:  Mrs.  Amos  P.  Woodward.  865  Central  St..  Frank- 
lin, Mass. 


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Emma  Frost,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1866-67,  entering 
from  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  is  now  Mrs.  William  H.  Miner,  and  lives 
in  Brattleboro. 


Love  A.  Frost,  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Mary  Marion 
(Ryan)  Frost,  was  born  January  30,  1852,  at  Brattleboro,  Vt. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1869.  October  31,  1877,  sne  was 
married  to  Gorham  B.  Goodell  at  Brattleboro.  Mr.  Goodell  is 
interested  in  mining.  They  lived  in  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  until  1891, 
and  since  that  time  have  made  their  home  in  Portland,  Ore. 
Two  children  were  born  to  them :  David,  born  September  30, 
1883;  Gorham  Lane,  born  May  26,  1888.  both  at  Cheyenne, 
Wyo.     They  are  attending  the  Portland  High  School. 

Address :  Mrs.  Gorham  B.  Goodell,  779  Johnson  St., 
Portland,  Ore. 

Martha  Fullam  attended  the  Oread  from  September,  1875, 
until  June,  1876.  She  was  born  in  West  Brookfield,  Mass., 
January  4,  i860.  Her  father  was  Lemuel  Fullam,  and  her 
mother's  maiden  name  was  Susan  French  Adams. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Martha  Fullam  entered  the  prepara- 
tory department  of  Wellesley  College  in  1876,  and  the  college 
in  1877.  She  left  Wellesley  in  1879  to  study  art  in  Boston  at 
the  Art  Museum,  and  with  J.  Appleton  Brown  and  Miss  Ellen 
Robbins. 

September  14,  1886,  she  was  married  to  Frank  Warren  Blair 
of  Worcester,  at  that  time  one  of  the  proprietors  and  editors  of 
the  Worcester  Telegram.  In  June,  1900,  Mr.  Blair  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Telegram  and  went  to  Boston  as  managing  editor 
of  the  Boston  Advertiser. 

While  in  Worcester  Mrs.  Blair  was  a  member  of  the 
Woman's,  Wellesley,  and  Mycological  Clubs,  and  worked  many 
years  for  the  Baldwinsville  Hospital  for  Children,  serving  on 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Worcester  branch  for  four 
years. 

She  lias  a  daughter,  Margaret  Amnion,  born  July  23,  1887, 
who  is  in  the  Brookline  High  School  in  the  class  of  1905. 

Address:  Mrs.  Frank  W.  Blair,  Richmond  Court,  Beacon 
St.,   Brookline,  Mass. 


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Alexine  M.  Fuller,  daughter  of  Albert  Kingsley  and  Maria 
Louisa  (Crawford)  Fuller,  was  born  in  Oakham,  Mass.,  August 
28,    1 86 1.     Among   her   ancestors   was    Dr.    Samuel    Fuller,   a 

Mayflower  passenger,  and  Captain 
William  Crawford,  who  came  to 
America  with  his  father's  family 
when  four  years  old,  and  in  the 
Revolutionary  period  did  gallant 
service  with  his  brothers  in  the 
Continental  army.  Her  maternal 
ancestors  were  prominent  in  town 
affairs,  her  grandfather  served  in 
the  Legislature,  and  her  grand-uncle 
in  both  Legislature  and  State  Senate 
and  as  County  Commissioner. 

She   entered   the   Oread   in    1878, 
remaining  one  year.     Since  leaving 
school  she  has  engaged  in  business  and  is  at  present  located  in 
Northampton. 

Address:   Box  156,  Northampton,  Mass. 


Almira  Louise  Fuller  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1874, 
and  left  in  February,  1875.  She  was  born  at  Oakham,  Mass., 
March  22,  1848.  Her  father  was  Albert  K.  Fuller,  third  son 
of  Amos  Fuller  of  Stafford,  Conn., 
who  was  a  descendant  of  Dr.  Samuel 
Fuller,  who  sailed  from  England  on 
the  Mayflower  in  September,  1620. 

Almira  Fuller's  mother  was  Maria 
Louisa  Crawford,  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander Crawford  of  Oakham,  who 
was  the  twelfth  child  of  Captain 
William  Crawford  of  Revolutionary 
fame. 

In  September,  1875.  Miss  Fuller 
accepted  a  position  in  a  ( Grammar 
school  in  Northampton,  Mass..  where 
she  remained  for  twenty-one  years.  Because  of  her  mother's 
illness  she  left  in  1896.  The  committee  extended  from  time  to 
time  her  leave  of  absence  for  a  year,  and  she  expected  to  return 


374  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

in  1897,  Dut  owing  to  her  mother's  continued  ill-health  she  was 
finally  compelled  to  give  up  teaching  altogether. 

She  was  married  to  Horatio  Moore,  August  2,  1900,  at 
Oakham.  Mr.  Moore  is  an  extensive  farmer  and  cattle  dealer 
of  New  Braintree,  and  is  a  prominent  officer  in  the  Agricultural 
Society.  He  is  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  has  held  several  town 
offices.     He  is  also  Deacon  in  the  Congregational  Church. 

Mrs.  Moore  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Grange  and  of  the 
Farmers'  Club,  and  has  been  actively  interested  in  all  work  for 
the  benefit  of  church  and  town. 

Address :   Mrs.  Horatio  Moore,  New  Braintree,  Mass. 


Lucy  Gale  was  sent  East  by  her  father,  a  Baptist  minister  in 
Minnesota,  to  attend  the  Oread  as  a  day  pupil,  about  1870. 
She  was  married  to  Samuel  Putnam  of  Boston,  where  she  died 
at  the  age  of  twenty-five  and  was  buried  at  Forest  Hills 
Cemetery,  Boston. 

Emma  M.  Galon,  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susan  E. 
(Small)  Galon,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  July  21,  1858. 
She  attended  the  Oread  about  1871.  In  1880  she  was  married 
in  Chicago  to  Benjamin  T.  Rowe.  Mr.  Rowe  was  at  one  time 
engaged  in  the  retail  shoe  business,  but  is  now  in  a  wholesale 
rubber  concern.  Mrs.  Rowe  has  one  child,  Luzanne  Loomis, 
who  was  born  in  Chelsea. 

Address:    Mrs.  Benjamin  T.  Rowe,  Boston,  Mass. 


L.  Sophia  Gantz  was  born  in  West  Woodstock,  Conn.,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Putnam.  She 
was  married  to  Mr.  Gantz  before  entering  the  Oread.  She  is 
no  longer  living. 

Alice  R.  Gaskill  was  born  on  (  )ctober  8,  1852,  at  Blackstone, 
.Mass.,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Albert  and  Anna  S.  (Comstock) 
Gaskill.  She  entered  the  ('read  in  September,  [869,  intend- 
ing to  take  a  two  years'  course,  but,  on  account  of  illness,  she 
was  obliged  to  leave  in  1870. 


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She  was  married  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  on  November  20, 
1880,  to  Charles  H.  Wilson,  a  lumber  merchant,  who  died  in 
1882.     To  them  was  born  November  3,  1881,  a  daughter,  Edith 


Anna,  who  died  August  15,  1882.     Airs.  Wilson  has  lived  much 
of  the  time  in  Worcester,  with  or  near  her  only  brother.  Judge 
Francis  A.  Gaskill  of  the  Massachusetts  Superior  Court.      At 
present  she  is  living  with  Mr.  Wilson's  aged  father. 
Address :    Mrs.  Alice  G.  Wilson,  Moosup,  Conn. 

Emma  A.  Giles,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1864-65,  was  the 
daughter  of  William  T.  and  Elmeda  (  Andrews)  Giles  of  New 
Salem,  Mass. 

She  was  for  some  years  a  teacher,  and  was  married  in  New 
Salem  to  Mr.  Ashley.     She  died  in  1894  at  Wendell,  Mass. 


Elisabeth  M.  Gillette  ("Libbie")  was  born  in  Easton,  Conn., 
April  11,  1853.  Her  father  was  Ebenezer  Sherman  Gillette, 
her  mother's  maiden  name  Alary  Elisabeth  Adams.  She  was  of 
Revolutionarv  ancestry.  After  leaving  the  Oread,  where  she 
studied  in  1873-74,  she  remained  at  home  until  her  marriage  at 
Easton,  Conn.,  December  3.  1885,  to  Rev.  Judson  Conklin. 

Since  then  she  has  lived  the  busy  life  of  a  pastor's  wife. 
She  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Woman's  Baptist  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary   Association    in    Trenton    and    has    been    active    in    the 


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Needlework  Guild  and  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Associ- 
ation of  that  city.  She  also  belongs  to  the  Contemporary 
Club. 

Address  :  Mrs.  Judson  Conklin,  39  Model  Ave.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

Ella  A.  Gleason,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  for  one  year, 
entering  in  the  spring  of  1873,  was  born  in  Worcester,  July  6, 
1854.  Her  father  was  Augustine  J.  Gleason,  and  her  mother 
Mary  B.  (Clemence)  Gleason. 

She  taught  school  in  North  Oxford,  Mass.,  for  four  years 
after  leaving  the  Oread,  and  was  married  there  on  June  24, 
1884,  to  Professor  George  W.  Lyman,  a  native  of  Amherst, 
Mass.,  at  that  time  Principal  of  the  South  Hadley  High  School. 
Professor  Lyman  was  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  class  of 
1882,  and  also  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  that  college. 
He  died  January  14,  1887,  being,  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
Principal  of  the  High  School  in  North  Attleboro,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Lyman  has  no  children.  Since  her  husband's  death  she 
has  made  her  home  in  North  Oxford,  Mass.  For  many  years 
she  cared  for  her  mother  and  an  aged  uncle  and  aunt,  who  are 
not  now  living.  She  is  an  active  worker  in  her  church,  is 
Superintendent  of  the  Primary  Department  in  its  Sunday 
School,  and  has  been  Superintendent  of  its  Band  of  Hope.  She 
is  also  interested  in  its  Foreign  Missionary  work. 

Address :  Mrs.  George  W.  Lyman,  Maple  Ave.,  North 
Oxford,  Mass. 

Ella  F.  Goddard,  a  day  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1864-65,  is 
now  Mrs.  Charles  N.  Scott  of  Oxford  St.,  Worcester. 

Ella  M.  Goss,  daughter  of  Sumner  and  Maria  (Kimball) 
Goss,  was  born  in  Millburv.  Mass.,  March  29,  1848.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  the  fall  of  1866,  and  attended  for  three 
months.  After  leaving  the  (  )read  she  cared  for  her  parents  for 
a  number  of  years  and  for  more  than  a  year  cared  for  an  aged 
uncle.  She  was  married  in  Worcester  on  May  16,  1893,  to  Isaac 
W.  White,  a  carpenter. 

Address:  Mrs.  Isaac  W.  White,  23  Englewood  Ave., 
Worcester,   Mass. 


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Hattie  S.  Goss  was  born  in  Worcester,  December  7,   1852, 

and  was  tbe  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Hallett)  Goss  of  St. 
Johnsbury,  Yt.  She  was  a  day 
pupil  at  the  Oread  from  1867  till 
1869.  In  the  city  of  her  birth, 
October  26,  1876,  she  was  married 
to  A.  G.  Magna,  a  banker,  and  Sec- 
retary of  the  Savings  Bank.  They 
have  two  sons,  Russell  W.,  born 
October  6,  1878.  and  Joseph  X., 
born  June  28,  1882,  the  former  in 
Worcester,  the  latter  in  Holyoke. 
Both  are  graduates  of  the  Holyoke 
High  School,  and  attended  the  Poly- 
technic Institute  at  Worcester.  Russell  is  now  in  the  Auto- 
mobile Works  at  Chicopee  Falls,  Mass. 

Address :    Mrs.  A.  G.  Magna,  248  Oak  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Mary    Evelyn    Graves    entered    the    Oread    in    1874    and 
remained  one  year.      She  was  born 
in    Northampton,   Mass..    March    18, 
1859,  and  was  the  daughter  of  John 
B.  and  Mary  (Smith)   Graves. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  re- 
mained at  home  and  devoted  most 
of  her  time  to  music.  Being  rather 
frail  she  lived  much  out  of  doors  in 
hopes  of  becoming  stronger,  but 
never  gained  robust  health.  She 
died  from  an  acute  attack  of  Bright's 
disease,  after  one  week's  illness,  in 
November  j  1884. 

Harriet  Currier  Gray,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Ploma 
(Currier)  Gray,  was  born  in  Gardiner,  Me..  August  17.  1862. 
She  was  at  the  Oread  from  1878  till  1880.  On  November  i~ . 
1887.  she  was  married  in  Gardiner  to  Benjamin  Bourne  Clay. 
a  lawyer,  and  her  home  is  now  in  Roxburv. 

.Address:  Mrs.  Benjamin  B.  Clay,  The  Warren.  Roxburv. 
Mass. 


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Ellen  M.  Gregory  was  born  in  Princeton,  Mass.,  June  16, 
1848,  and  was  the  daughter  of  David  Hoyt  and  Alary  Adams 
(  Howe)  Gregory.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1866  and  remained 
but  a  short  time,  because  of  serious  illness  in  her  family. 

She  was  married  December  23,  1873,  to  Dr.  Joseph  O.  West, 
who  received  his  degree  of  A.B.  from  Dartmouth  College  and 
of  AI.D.  from  Harvard  University.  He  died  January  28,  1887. 
She  has  four  daughters  and  one  son  :  Josephine,  born  November 
29,  1874,  an  artist,  was  married  July  26,  1896,  to  Edwin  M. 
Jenks;  Grace,  born  September  3,  1877,  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Framingham  Normal  School  and  a  teacher ;  Gertrude,  born 
December  3,  1880,  is  a  musician  and  has  studied  with  Air.  Hein- 
rich.  the  blind  tenor;  Elinor,  born  July  13,  1884.  and  Joseph, 
born  June  4,  1887,  are  still  in  school. 

Address :    Airs.  Joseph  O.  West,  Princeton,  Alass. 

Annie  Beulah  Griggs,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1871-72, 
coming  from  Brookline,  Alass.,  was  born  Jul}-  2j,  1853.  After 
leaving  school  she  lived  at  home,  interesting  herself  in  china 
painting,  in  which  she  became  an  expert,  and  in  music,  in  which 
she  gave  lessons.  She  took  occasional  pleasure  trips  to  places 
of  interest  in  this  country. 

She  died  October  14,  1898. 

Delia  Maria  Griggs  was  born  in  Grafton,  Alass.,  March  7, 
1850,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Salem  and  Lydia  Alaria  Adams 
(Cleveland)  Griggs.  Her  great  grandfather,  Thomas  Griggs 
of  Brookline,  was  Colonel  of  Larned's  regiment,  which  marched 
on  the  alarm  of  April  19,  1775  ;  he  was  also  Colonel  in  Jonathan 
Holman's  regiment,  and  was  with  the  army  at  the  time  of  the 
surrender  of  General  Burgoyne.  The  family  is  of  Scotch 
origin  and  traces  its  ancestry  back  to  one  of  the  Kings  of  Scot- 
land of  the  sixth  century.  Her  mother's  ancestry  is  traced  back- 
to  Stephen  Hopkins,  who  came  over  in  the  Mayflower.  The 
(  llevelands  were  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  her  grandfather, 
(bark's  Cleveland,  made  the  speech  of  welcome  when  Lafayette 
visited  Grafton.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  the  autumn  of 
1 869  to  the  summer  of  [871. 

In  Worcester,  October  17,  1872,  she  was  married  to  Henry 
Augustus   Harrington,  who  is  in  the  real  estate  business,      lie 


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.Mrs. 


has  been  Overseer  of  the  Poor  and  Alderman  of  the  city. 
Harrington  is  interested  in  charitable  work  in  the  city. 

Address:    Mrs.   II.  Augustus  Harrington.  Harrington  Court 
Worcester. 


Dora  H.  Gross  was  born  in 
Enfield.  Mass..  and  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Micha  Haven  and  Emeline 
(Sprout)  Gross.  She  attended  the 
Oread  in  1878-79. 

Address :   Enfield,  Mass. 


Emilie  Millicent  Halstead  was  born  in  Trenton,  Oneida 
County.  X.  Y..  and  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  J.  and  Mary 
(Potter)  Halstead.  The  family  trace  their  ancestry  back  to 
England.  Holland  and  Germany.  Tbeir  English  ancestors  came 
to  this  country  in  1636-38.  She  has  been  an  associate  of  the 
Girls'  Friendly  Society  for  twelve  years,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Humane  Society  and  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution.     She  has  taught  continuously  since  leaving  school. 

Address:    3024  Q  St..  X.  W..  Washington.  D.  C. 

Clara  E.  Hamilton  was  born  July  31.  1856,  at  West  Brook- 
field,  Mass..  her  present  home.  She  was  the  daughter  of  H. 
Warren  and  Laurinda  (Barlow)  Hamilton.  Her  grandfather, 
I  Ion.  Alanson  Hamilton,  was  prominent  in  political  affairs.  On 
tbe  maternal  side  she  traces  her  ancestors  to  the  Mayflower. 

She  was  at  the  Oread  in  1875  and  1876.  and  was  to  have  been 
graduated  in  1876.  but  illness  compelled  her  to  leave  school 
before  the  graduation.  On  June  6,  1878.  she  was  married  to 
Sumner  H.  Reed,  who  was  born  in  Constantinople,  tbe  son  of 
an  early  missionary  to  tbe  Armenians.  He  is  interested  in  stock 
raising  and  is  a  Lecturer  for  the  Massachusetts  State  Board  of 
Agriculture.      They   have   had    four   children :     Clara    Everett, 


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born  October  1,  1879,  a  graduate  of  Smith  College  in  1901,  at 
present  teaching  at  Wickford,  R.  I. ;  Annie,  born  April  1,  1882, 
who  died  in  infancy;  Faith  Hamilton,  born  February  8,  1886, 
now  a  student  at  Smith  College ;  and  Roger  Everett,  born 
November  1,  1891,  who  is  fitting  for  Yale.  She  has  written 
many  papers  for  clubs  and  also  addresses  and  articles  which 
have  been  published  in  various  papers,  including  the  Sunday 
School  Times,  the  Home  Guardian,  the  Homemaker  and  the 
Mayflower.  For  twenty  years  she  has  been  at  the  head  of  a 
large  Primary  Sunday  School. 

Address :   Mrs.  Sumner  H.  Reed,  West  Brookfield,  Mass. 

Anna  Florence  Hammond,  daughter  of  Levi  L.  and  Laura 
A.  (Beers)  Hammond,  was  born  at  Charlton  Depot,  Mass., 
August  1,  i860.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1878, 
and  remained  one  year.  December  27,  1881,  she  was  married 
at  Charlton  to  Luther  Goddard,  a  coal  dealer  of  Worcester. 
Her  twin  sons,  Levi  Lincoln  and  Harry,  born  at  Worcester, 
April  4,  1883,  died  the  same  year.  Mrs.  Goddard  is  interested 
in  the  charitable  work  of  the  Universalist  Church. 

Address :   Mrs.  Anna  F.  Goddard,  Charlton  Depot,  Mass. 

Carrie  L.  Hammond,  daughter  of  Stoddard  and  Mary 
(Parks)  Hammond,  was  born  October  10,  1861,  in  De  Bruce, 
Sullivan  County,  N.  Y.  She  is  of  English  descent  and  ances- 
tors on  both  sides  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  1878  and  remained  till  1880.  She  studied 
vocal  music  in  New  York  after  leaving  the  Oread,  and  on 
September  1,  1881,  was  married  in  De  Bruce  to  Frank  Hamil- 
ton Mason.  He  is  Clerk  of  the  United  States  District  Court  of 
Boston  and  has  held  that  position  for  twelve  years.  Their  four 
children  were  born  in  Worcester:  Robert  in  1882;  Pauline  in 
1884;  Benjamin  in  1885;  and  Olive  in  1888.  In  1900  the 
family  moved  to  Brookline. 

Address:  Mrs.  Frank  H.  Mason,  21  Fuller  St.,  Brookline, 
Mass. 

Etta  L.  Hancock  was  born  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  August  11. 
1854.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Ann  C.  (Ames) 
Hancock.     She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1871,  and  left 


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in  1873.  She  was  married  May  16,  1876,  at  Worcester,  to  Eben 
Harrington,  who  is  cashier  of  the  State  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Boston.     They  have  had  two  children:    Charles 


Theodore,  born   at  Worcester  June   16,   1877,   died  August  2, 
1882 ;    and   Frederick   Hancock,  born   in   Worcester   February 
II,  1885. 
Address :   Mrs.  Eben  Harrington,  35  Harvard  St.,  Worcester. 


Emma  A,  Harding  entered  the  Oread  in  September,   i< 
and    left    in    June,    1869.      She    was    married    to    Edmund    S. 
Clark. 

Address:    Mrs.  Edmund  Sanford  Clark,  Framingham,  Mass. 


May  Francise  Harris  was  born  in  West  Boylston,  Mass., 
May  22,  1852,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Linus  Monroe  and 
Armilla  Emerson  (Rounds)  Harris.  She  is  a  direct  descendant 
of  Captain  Johnathan  Smith  and  Freelove  Boss  of  North  Scit- 
uate.  R.  I.  Captain  Smith  was  a  descendant  of  Captain  Johna- 
than Smith  and  Sarah  Hopkins.  Freelove  Boss  was  a  descend- 
ant of  the  Greene  and  Carr  families  of  Rhode  Island.  Linus 
Monroe  Harris  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Thomas  Harris,  who 
came  to  America  on  the  ship  Lynn.  Miss  Harris'  grandmother 
was  a  cousin  of  Stephen  Hopkins,  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868  and  left  the  following  year  to 
enter  a  private  school  kept  by  Miss  Sherman  in  Hanover,  N.  H. 


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After  leaving  school  she  traveled  extensively  until  she  was 
married,  on  February  10,  1881,  to  Louis  Cutting,  a  lawyer  of 
Worcester,  who  is  also  a  director  and  assistant  treasurer  in  the 
West  Boylston  Manufactory.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cutting  have  one 
son,  George  Linus  Cutting,  born  in  West  Boylston,  September 
16,  1885.  He  attended  school  in  West  Boylston  until  he  was 
fourteen,  when  he  left  to  study  at  the  Worcester  Academy, 
where  he  remained  one  year.  He  is  now  preparing  to  enter 
the  Harvard  Law  School.  Mrs.  Cutting  is  a  Daughter  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  a  member  of  a  musical  society  called 
the  Friday  Morning  Club. 

Address :      Mrs.     Louis     Cutting,     30     Trowbridge     Road, 
Worcester,    Mass. 


Abbie  Sawyer  Hastings,  of  sturdy  New  England  origin, 
the  daughter  of  Major  Rufus  and  Isabella  (Howe)  Hastings, 
was  born  in  Sterling,  Mass.,  September  30,  1842.     She  attended 

the  Oread  in  1866-67.  June  5>  l%72, 
she  was  married  to  Joseph  E.  Fiske 
(Harvard,  1861),  who  served  as 
Captain  in  the  Civil  War,  has  been 
a  State  Senator  and  has  held  town 
offices.  They  had  twin  daughters, 
Abbie  Sawyer  and  Isabella  Howe, 
born  April  29,  1874.  The  former 
died  in  October,  1874;  the  latter  is 
a  Wellesley  graduate  (1896),  and 
is  a  writer  of  merit.  She  has  pub- 
lished a  volume  of  verse  entitled 
"A  Field  of  Folk"  (The  Gorham 
Press,  1903).  Mrs.  Fiske  was  in- 
terested in  educational  and  charitable  work  and  was  President 
of  the  Wellesley  Hills  Woman's  Club  from  its  foundation  until 
her  death,  winch  took  place  at  Wellesley  Hills,  March  16,  1894. 


Sarah    Isabella    Hastings,    see   Sarah    Isabella    ( Hastings ) 
Jacques. 


Florence  A.  Hawkins,  who  attended  the  Oread  about  1878, 
was  born  in  Worcester  in  1858,  the  daughter  of  Daniel  A.  and 


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Chloe  C.  (Wheelock)  Hawkins.  She  was  married  in  Worcester 
to  Henry  A.  Maynard.  She  is  Field  Secretary  for  the  Chil- 
dren's Aid  Society,  a  state  charitable  organization  of  Maine, 
and  writes  "Glimpses  from  the  Field"  for  the  paper  of  that 
society,  which  is  published  quarterly  and  called  the  Girls'  Home. 
Address:   Mrs.  Henry  A.  Maynard.  Belfast,  Me. 

Ella  S.  Hill  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  November  5,  1856, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Cornelius  H.  and  Susan  A.  (  Thomp- 
son) Hill.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1870  and  left  in  1872. 
Later  she  took  up  the  study  of  music,  and  afterwards  became 
a  public  singer.  She  was  married  November  7.  1872.  at 
Danielson,  Conn.,  to  Alvah  E.  Hardy,  a  mill  superintendent,  and 
inyentor  of  some  repute.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  in  Everett,  where  they  haye  liyed  for  several  years. 
Four  children  have  been  born  to  them :  Cornelia  M..  at  Worces- 
ter, October  16,  1873  ;  John  A.,  at  Worcester,  October  24,  1875  5 
Etta  J.,  at  Eyerett,  May  18,  1881  ;  Susan,  at  Everett,  June  22, 
1887.  Cornelia  was  married  to  George  H.  Murray.  John  and 
Etta  died  in  January,  1887,  and  Susan  is  still  at  home. 

Address:   Mrs.  Alvah  E.  Hardy,  259  Main  St.,  Everett,  Mass. 

Etta  E.  Hill  was  born  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  May  5,  1859,  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Cornelius  H.  and  Susan  A.   (Thompson) 


Hill.     She  spent  the  years  1873  to  1875  at  tne  Oread,  and  on 
leaving-  there  studied  music  and  traveled. 


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She  was  married  to  John  W.  Knibbs,  March  27,  1878,  and  on 
December  24  of  that  year,  her  first  child,  Charles  H.,  was  born. 
John  W.,  Jr.,  was  born  on  November  8,  1880,  and  Lila  I.,  on 
November  19,  1883.     All  were  born  in  Worcester. 

Charles  Knibbs  fought  at  Santiago  and  San  Jnan  Hill  in 
the  war  with  Spain.     He  is  married  and  living  in  Dorchester. 

Her  second  son  is  at  Dartmouth  College,  where  he  is  very 
prominent  in  athletics.  Her  daughter  is  at  home,  devoting  her 
attention  to  music. 

Address :   Mrs.  John  W.  Knibbs,  68  Chatham  St.,  Worcester. 

Flora  C.  Holt  was  born  January  23,  1856,  at  Holden,  Mass., 

and  was  the  daughter  of  Col. 
Joab  and  Clarissa  (Hubbard)  Holt. 
Col.  Holt  early  became  active  in 
military  life  and  was  commissioned 
ensign  in  1832,  afterwards  rising 
rapidly  to  the  rank  of  Colonel. 
He  was  one  of  the  charter  mem- 
bers of  the  Boston,  Barre  and 
Gardner  Railroad  Company,  and 
was  one  of  those  who  contributed 
most  largely  of  money  and  time  to 
keep  alive  the  charter.  He  was 
public-spirited  and  liberal  and  was 
repeatedly  honored  by  his  townsmen 

with  places   of   trust  until   the  time 

of  his  death  in  1869. 

Flora   Holt  entered  the  Oread  in 

1870  and  left  in  1874.      She  taught 

school  eleven  years  and  then  became 

bookkeeper  for  a  firm  in  Worcester, 

which    position    she   held    for    three 

years,   when   she   returned   home   to 

care  for  her  mother,  who  remained 

an   invalid  until   her  death   in    1891. 
She  was  married  June  29,  1892,  to 

Frederick  A.  Harbison,  of  Worces- 
ter, in  which  city  she  has  since  lived. 

Address:    Mrs.  Frederick  A.   Harbison,  49  Wellington   St., 

Worcester,  Mass. 


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Idabel  A.  House  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1873.  but 
owing  to  ill-health  was  obliged  to  leave  soon  after  entering  on 
her  second  year. 

Her  father,  T.  J.  B.  House,  came  from  Dutch  stock  of  New 
York,  and  her  mother,  Louisa  C.  Osgood,  came  from  a  Maine 
family. 

Idabel  was  born  in  Piermont.  X.  Y.,  October  3,  1856,  and 
was  married  to  Frank  K.  Stearns  on  October  15,  1879,  at 
Methuen,  Mass.  Mr.  Stearns  is  in  the  laundry  business.  He 
has  served  two  years  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  is 
a  thirty-second  degree   Mason. 

They  have  three  children :  Linda  Osgood,  born  October  7, 
1880;  Helen  Hutchinson,  born  January  26,  1885  ;  and  Edmund, 
born  July  26,  1892,  all  in  Lowell.  The  eldest  daughter  spent 
one  year  at  Mount  Holyoke  College,  but  on  account  of  illness 
was  obliged  to  leave.  Helen  was  graduated  from  the  Lowell 
High  School  in  1902  at  the  head  of  her  class,  and  is  now  at 
Mount  Holyoke  College. 

Address:  Mrs.  Frank  K.  Stearns,  122  Eleventh  St.,  Lowell, 
Mass. 

Mary  Emma  Howe  entered  the  Oread  in  1872,  remaining  one 
\ear.  She  was  born  in  Sudbury.  Mass.,  October  7,  1856.  Her 
father  was  Joseph  Calvin  Howe,  a  descendant  of  John  Howe, 


who  came  to  Sudbury  from  England  in  1638.  Her  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Alethea  M.  Brown.  She  was  a  descendant  of 
William   Brown,  who  came  to  Sudbury  from  England  in  1637. 


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Mary  Howe  was  married  November  1,  1876,  to  Algernon 
Sidney  Bryant,  a  merchant  of  Boston.  Mrs.  Bryant  has  lived 
in  Newton  all  her  married  life.  She  has  been  a  member  of  the 
West  Newton  Woman's  Educational  Club,  and  also  of  the 
Newton  Ladies'  Home  Circle,  the  latter  for  benevolent  work. 

Address:  Mrs.  Algernon  Sidney  Bryant,  21  Washington  Ter- 
race, Newtonville,  Mass. 

Ella  Augusta  Hoyle,  daughter  of  Joseph  Hoyle  of  Fall 
River,  Mass.,  and  his  wife,  Susan  King,  of  Natick,  R.  I.,  was 
born  on  October  9,  1849,  m  Natick.  After  leaving  the  Oread 
she  taught  for  a  short  time  in  Old  Warwick,  R.  I.,  and  later 
at  Natick,  R.  I.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church  in 
Natick  and  a  Good  Templar.  Miss  Hoyle  was  married  in 
Natick,  April  23,  1874,  to  John  Quincy  Adams,  at  that  time 
Principal  of  the  Natick  Grammar  School.  Mr.  Adams  received 
very  little  training  beyond  that  of  the  grammar  school,  but 
through  private  study  and  extensive  reading  obtained  a  good 
education,  and  became  a  successful  grammar  school  teacher. 
Mrs.  Adams  had  four  children,  all  born  at  West  Natick :  Mabel 
Almira,  born  July  4,  1875,  died  April  2,  1876;  Bertram  Rinaldo, 
born  June  29,  1878;  Charles  Francis,  born  May  8,  1880;  and 
Bessie  Lenore,  born  October  25,  1884. 

Bertram  was  graduated  from  a  grammar  school  in  Provi- 
dence, learned  the  machinist's  trade,  became  a  member  of  the 
Hospital  Corps  in  the  United  States  Army,  and  later  worked  as 
a  machinist  in  Boston.  Charles  Francis  was  graduated  from 
the  Providence  grammar  schools,  became  a  machinist,  and  later 
an  employee  in  the  office  of  the  Rhode  Island  Electric  Car  Com- 
pany. In  1899  he  was  married  to  Lena  Capen  of  Providence. 
They  have  one  son,  Harold  Earl,  born  in  August,  1900.  Bessie 
Lenore  was  graduated  from  the  Riverpoint  Grammar  School 
and  the  Providence  Classical  High  School,  and  is  at  present  a 
student  in  Brown  University. 

Mrs.  Adams  died  at  West  Natick  (Westcott),  R.  I.,  January 
27,  1886. 

Mary  Alice  Hoyt,  daughter  of  Sylvester  C.  and  Malinda  M. 
(Reid)  Hoyt,  was  born  in  Griggsville,  111.,  in  January,  1851. 
I  Icr  father  was  a  native  of  Charlestown,  Mass. 


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Alice  came  to  the  Oread  from  Griggsville  about  1872.  After 
leaving  school  she  returned  home  to  care  for  her  father,  who 
was  a  widower.     She  died  May  24.  1882. 

Mary  E.  Hutchinson,  daughter  of  Edwin  H.  and  Mary  Ann 
Fisk  (Waters)  Hutchinson,  was  born  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  August 
30,  1848.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1864,  and  left 
in  February,  1865.  Since  leaving  the  Oread  she  has  taught 
school,  given  instruction  in  music,  and  served  as  housekeeper. 
She  was  married  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  in  1870,  to  Samuel  \Y. 
Penniman,  who  died  in  1874.  On  February  26,  1879,  she  was 
married  to  George  H.  Miller  of  Worcester,  a  coal  dealer.  Mrs. 
Miller  is  engaged  in  church  work,  and  is  at  present  Treasurer 
of  the  Worcester  Children's  Friend  Society. 

Address:  Mrs.  George  H.  Miller,  44  May  St.,  Worcester. 
Mass. 


Sarah  Isabella  (Hastings)  Jacques,  sister  of  Abbie  S.  Hast- 
ings, was  born  in  Sterling,  Mass.,  February  26,  1829.  Her  father 
was  Major  Rufus  Hastings,  and  her 
mother,  Isabella  (Howe)  Hastings. 
Before  coming  to  the  Oread,  where 
she  was  a  pupil  in  1866-67,  sne  nac^ 
been  twice  married,  first  on  October 
2,  1856,  to  Henry  Martin  Moore 
of  Boston,  and  second  on  March 
20,  1862,  to  John  Crane  Jacques 
of  Worcester.  After  leaving  the 
<  >read  she  was  again  married,  De- 
cember 5,  1871.  to  Rev.  John  Dyer 
Potter,  who  died  in  1897,  and  who 
was  well  known,  especially  in  the 
West,  as  an  evangelist  of  unusual 

power.      The   last   years   of    Mrs.    Potter's   life   were   spent   in 
Westboro,  where  she  died  July  2$,  kjoi. 

Abby  B.  Johnson  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  year  1866- 
07,  entering  from  Millbury,  Mass.  She  was  married  on  July 
22,  1875,  to  Charles  T.  Freeman  and  died  in  Millbury  September 
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Fannie  E.  Jordan,  daughter  of  Charles  O.  and  Augusta  C. 
(Hathaway)  Jordan,  was  born  in  Wrentham,  Mass.,  June  10, 
1849.  She  was  at  the  Oread  from  1867  till  1869.  On  August 
15,  1898,  at  Anoka,  Minn.,  she  was  married  to  William  D. 
Morrill,  a  druggist. 

Address:    Mrs.  Fannie  J.  Morrill,  Anoka,  Minn. 

Genevieve  H.  Jordan  was  born  in  Worcester,  October  22, 
1855,  and  was  the  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Caroline  C.  (Lor- 
ing)  Jordan.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1873  and  left  in  Jan- 
uary, 1875,  marrying,  on  May  19  of  that  year,  Daniel  E.  Forrest, 
a  salesman.  Two  children  were  born  to  them,  Genevieve  on 
November  7,  1878,  and  Oscar  E.  on  August  24,  1881.  Gene- 
vieve graduated  from  the  Medford  High  School  and  afterwards 
was  married  to  Rev.  George  W.  Fuller,  now  of  Pomona,  Cal. 
Oscar  is  a  graduate  of  Tufts  College  in  the  class  of  1904. 

Mr.  Forrest  died  in  Medford,   September  30,   1900. 

Address:  Mrs.  Genevieve  H.  Forrest,  81  College  Ave.,  Med- 
ford, Mass. 


Mary   Keese,   daughter  of   Anderson   and  Alma    (Hallock) 
Keese,    was   born   in   Keeseville,    X.   Y.,    September    12,    1848. 
Peter  Hallock,  the  first  of  her  ancestors  to  come  to  this  coun- 
try from  England,  was  one  of  thir- 
teen  Pilgrims  who  landed  in   1640 
?^-k  with    Rev.    Mr.    Young.      He    and 

many     of     his     descendants     were 
r  ^  Quakers,  but  in  spite  of  the  Quaker 

-^  prejudice  against  war,  they  served 

in  the  army.  Distinguished  rela- 
tives fought  in  the  Revolution,  the 
War  of  181 2,  the  Mexican  War  and 
the  Civil  War.  Among  them  were 
Major-General  Nathanael  Greene  of 
Revolutionary  fame,  and  Joseph 
Hallock,  Commander  of  a  war  ves- 
sel in  that  war ;  Lieutenant  Joseph 
Hallock,  wh«»  fought  in  the  War  of  1812;  and  Henry  Wager 
1  hillock,  who  in  1863  hecame  General-in-Chief  of  all  the  land 
forces  in  the  United  States,  and  who  had  fought  in  the  Mexican 


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War.  Fitz  Greene  Halleck,  the  poet,  author  of  "Marco  Boz- 
zaris,"  was  also  of  the  same  family.  Every  generation  of 
Hallecks  has  given  a  son  to  preach  the  Gospel.  Among  these 
is  William  A.  Halleck,  Secretary  of  the  American  Tract  Society. 

Her  father,  for  whom  the  town  of  Keeseville  was  named, 
was  of  Welsh  origin,  and  his  ancestors  were  land  owners  and 
iron  manufacturers. 

She  was  an  Oread  pupil  in  1866-68.  In  1882,  she  married 
Hoyle  Lapham,  a  farmer,  in  Troy,  X.  Y.,  and  they  have  four 
children:  Elizabeth  Halleck,  horn  in  Brooklyn,  X.  Y.,  in  1883; 
Margaret  Keese,  born  in  Keeseville,  N.  Y.,  in  1886;  Henry 
Green,  born  in  Charlotte,  \*t.,  in  1888;  Richard  Halleck,  born 
in  Charlotte,  Yt.,  in  1890.  Elizabeth,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Edmonds  High  School  of  Burlington,  Yt.,  is  connected  with  the 
Mary  Fletcher  Library  in  Burlington.  Henry  is  with  the 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Company,  and  the  other  two  children 
are  still  in  school. 

Address :  Mrs.  Hoyle  Lapham,  181  South  Union  St.,  Bur- 
lington, Yt. 

Mary  Olive  Kershaw,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  the  early 
seventies,  died  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Henry  D.  Yerxa  in  Cam- 
bridge, December  19,  1899.  She  had  lived  in  this  family  for 
many  years. 

Lizzie  Kidder  was  the  daughter  of  Abram  French  Kidder 
and  his  wife,  who  was  Sarah  Maria  Burbank.  She  was  born 
in  Lancaster,  Mass.,  February  20,  1854.  In  1876  she  went  to 
California  and  taught  school  there  for  a  year,  marrying  James 
McCausland,  a  ranchman  and  stock  dealer,  at  Santa  Rosa,  Cal., 
\Yvember  6,  1877.  Her  daughter.  Amy,  was  born  at  Tomales, 
Cal.,  December  4,  1881,  and  was  graduated  from  the  High 
School  in  1900.    Mrs.  McCausland  was  at  the  Oread  in  1872-73. 

Address :  Mrs.  Lizzie  McCausland,  Cloverdale.  Sonoma 
Co.,  Cal. 

Carrie  A.  King,  daughter  of  George  T.  and  Sarah  A.  (  Lewis) 
King,  attended  the  Oread  in  1878-80.  She  was  born  in  Wor- 
cester. She  has  given  her  time  largely  to  the  study  of  music, 
was  formerly  a  pupil  of  B.  J.  Lang  of  Boston,  and  for  twelve 


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years  was  organist  and  director  of  music  at  the  Church  of  the 
Unity  in  Worcester.  She  is  a  teacher  of  the  pianoforte  in 
Worcester  and  a  concert  pianist.  She  is  a  member  of  educa- 
tional clubs  in  both  Boston  and  Worcester,  among  them  being 
the  Worcester  Woman's  Club,  the  Friday  Morning  Club,  of 
which  she  is  a  charter  member,  and  the  Chromatic  Club  of 
Boston,  where  she  is  well  known  in  musical  circles.  She  has 
written  for  the  New  York  Musical  Courier  and  has  frequently 
given  lecture-recitals.  She  was  married  to  Charles  F.  Hunt, 
but  is  now  a  widow. 

Address :   Mrs.  Carrie  King  Hunt,  Hotel  Standish,  Worcester. 


L.  Elizabeth  King,  "Lizzie," 
the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Lucy 
R.  (Child)  King,  was  born  in  Wor- 
cester, March  7,  1848.  She  came 
to  the  Oread  in  1868  and  was  a 
member  of  the  class  of  1871,  but 
did  not  graduate. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  Miss 
King  taught  at  the  Providence 
Street  School,  and  afterward,  from 
1880  until  1882,  at  the  Walnut 
Street  School.  She  died  in  Wor- 
cester, November  9,  1889,  of  pneu- 
monia. 


M.  Josie  Kingman,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1872,  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  February  27,  185 1.  Her  parents  were 
I  lenry  Washburn  and  Martha  Crooker  (Hopkins)  Kingman. 
Her  maternal  grandfather,  Joseph  Hopkins  of  Wakefield,  was 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  being  then  a  boy  but  sixteen  years 
old,  and  serving  as  one  of  Washington's  attendants.  Her  pater- 
nal grandfather,  i  fenry  Kingman  of  Reading,  was  extensively 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  furniture,  sending  the  greater 
part  of  it  to  the  South.  Her  father  and  four  uncles  were  in 
the  furniture  business  in  New  York  City.  In  Reading,  Mass., 
October  31,  [876,  she  was  married  to  George  E.  Abbott,  an 
architect  of  Boston.  She  has  spent  most  of  her  married  life  in 
and  near   Boston,  living1  a  short  time  only  in    hall   River  while 


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Mr.  Abbott  was  building  the  Durfee  High  School,  a  magnificent 
structure  which  cost  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars. 

The\'  had  two  daughters  and  two  sons:  Grace  Josephine, 
born  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  June  9,  [879;  Ruby  Hopkinson,  born 
in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  January  2,  1885  :  Edwin  Kingman  and 
Henry  King-man,  born  in  Reading,  September  29,  1886,  and 
September  23,  1892.  The  daughters  are  graduates  of  the 
High  School  and  Edwin  is  preparing  for  Dartmouth.  Mr. 
Abbott  died  in  December.  1899. 

Address:    Mrs.  George  E.  Abbott,  Reading,  Mass. 


Emily  Priscilla  Kingsbury  was  the  daughter  of  Leonard 
Augustus  and  Anna  Bliss  (  Holmes)  Kingsbury,  and  was  born 
at  South  Natick,  Mass.,  February  23,  1850.     Her  great-grand- 


father. Captain  Caleb  Kingsbury,  commanded  a  company  of 
men  at  the  battle  of  Lexington.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868 
and  left  in  1869.  She  taught  school  for  two  years,  and  was 
married  at  South  Natick,  Mass.,  December  2.  1875.  to  Charles 
E.  Shattuck,  a  retail  grocer,  established  at  Wellesley.  They 
have  had  three  children:  Annie  Kingsbury,  born  November  1, 
1877,  died  April  21,  1887;  Robert  Kingsbury,  born  January  2. 
1884,  a  graduate  of  Wellesley  High  School  (1903),  now  a  stu- 
dent at  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute:  Mary  Kingsbury,  born 
(  )ctober  18,  1887,  died  September  1,  1897. 

Mrs.  Shattuck  is  engaged  principally  in  church  work,  and 
charitable  and  Sunday  School  work  connected  with  it. 

Address:    Mrs.  Charles  F.  Shattuck.  Wellesley,  Ma--. 


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Maria  A.  Kittredge  was  born  in  Monson,  Mass.,  January  30, 
1849.     She  was  the  (laughter  of  Rev.  Charles  B.  Kittredge,  who 

was  born  in  Mt.  Vernon,  X.  H.,  and 
Sarah  (Brigham)  Kittredge,  who 
was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.  Her 
father  and  mother  were  married  in 
1840,  and  lived  in  Westboro,  Mass., 
where  Mr.  Kittredge  was  the  pas- 
tor of  the  Congregational  Church. 
Miss  Kittredge  entered  the  Oread 
in  1869,  leaving  in  1870. 

On  September  22,  1870,  at  West- 
boro,   she    was    married    to    J.    E. 
Forbes,  a  traveling  salesman.     They 
have  two  daughters :   Lucy  K.,  born 
at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  April  26,  1873, 
and  Harriet  A.,  born  in  the  same  city  August  26,   1876.     The 
family   lived   in   Kansas   City   until    1880,   when   they   removed 
to  Ottawa. 

Address:    Mrs.  J.  E.  Forbes,  721   Cedar  St.,  Ottawa,  Kan. 


Mary  Kingsley  Knight  entered  the  Oread  in  1874  and 
remained  one  year.  She  was  born  November  17,  1857,  at  West 
Hartford,  Conn.  Her  father  was  Edward  Mason  Knight,  and 
her  mother  Julia   (Hutchinson)   Knight. 

Mary  Knight  taught  in  public  and  private  schools  for  sixteen 
years  after  leaving  the  Oread,  and  has  always  been  interested 
in  educational  work. 

She  was  married  in  Jewett  City,  Conn.,  July  19,  1892,  to 
Charles  M.  Miller.  After  her  marriage  they  lived  in  Mount 
Vernon,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Miller  is  proprietor  of  the  Miller  School 
in  New  York  City,  President  of  the  Board  of  Education  of 
Mount  Vernon,  President  of  the  Eastern  Association  of  Com- 
mercial Teachers,  ex-President  of  the  National  Federation  of 
Commercial  Teachers,  and  Director  of  the  Mount  Vernon  Trust 
( Company. 

They  have  three  children:  Ruth,  born  April  22,  1893,  in  New 
York  City;  William  Allan,  born  July  13,  [894,  in  Mount  Ver- 
non;  and  David  Knight,  born  July  19,  18(^7,  in  Mount  Vernon. 


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Mrs.  Miller  is  an  active  member  of  the  Educational  Section 
of  the  Westchester  Woman's  Club  of  Mount  Vernon. 

Address:  Mrs.  Charles  M.  Miller,  225  South  First  Ave., 
Mount  Vernon,  X.  Y. 


Susie  Knowlton  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  L.  and  Alma 
(Damon)  Knowlton.  Her  father,  a  native  of  Bridport,  Vt., 
was  a  merchant  in  Worcester.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  Samuel  Damon,  a  member  of  the  well-known  family 
of  that  name  in  Holden,  Mass..  which  came  originally  from 
Reading,  England.  The  fine  library  and  high  school  building 
in  Holden,  called  "Damon  Memorial,"  was  given  to  the  town 
by  her  uncle,  Mr.  Samuel  Gale. 

She  was  born  at  Holden,  Mass.,  September  27,  1850.  Her 
name  occurs  in  the  Oread  catalogue  for  1867.  After  leav- 
ing the  Oread  she  spent  a  year  at  Glenwood  Seminary,  Wrest 
Brattleboro,  Yt.  She  was  married  in  Worcester,  August  7, 
1875,  to  H.  M.  Morse,  a  professional  singer.  A  son  was  born 
in  Worcester,  August  13.   1876. 

Since  leaving  Worcester  she  has  been  engaged  in  kindergarten 
work,  and  for  the  last  fourteen  years  has  been  directress  of  a 
large  charity  kindergarten  in  Minneapolis,  and  a  supervisor  of 
the  Riverside  Mission  in  that  city. 

Address:  Mrs.  Susan  K.  Morse,  68  South  nth  St..  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Emma  J.  Lamb  was  born  May  24,  1850,  in  Sutton,  Mass., 
and  was  the  daughter  of  Rufus  and  Hannah  (Battles)  Lamb. 
Her  grandfather,  David  Battles,  was  in  the  War  of  1812,  and 
her  two  great-grandfathers  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
She  entered  the  Oread  in  1869,  and  remained  until  April,  1871, 
when  she  became  a  milliner.  She  taught  school  for  one  year 
before  entering  the  Oread. 

She  was  married  October  15,  1879.  at  North  Lxbridge,  Mass., 
to  George  H.  Rogers,  who  is  an  ice  and  wood  dealer,  and  one 
of  the  selectmen  of  the  town.  She  has  two  daughters :  Grace 
Ethelyn,  born  January  21,  1882,  and  Daisy  Edith,  born  October 
1,  1883,  both  at  Westboro.  The  former  graduated  in  1903 
from  the   Brid^ewater   Xormal   School,   and  the  latter  at  the 


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same  time  from  the  Westboro  High  School.  Mrs.  Rogers  has 
always  been  interested  and  active  in  religions  and  social  matters 
connected  with  the  town  of  Westboro. 

Address :    Mrs.  George  H.  Rogers,  106  East  Main  St.,  West- 
boro. Mass. 


Florence  G.  Lamson,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1876,  and 
remained  till  1879,  was  the  daughter  of  Darins  F.  and  Martha 
S.  (Gregory)  Lamson,  and  sister  of  Helen  A.  Lamson,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Oread  in  1878.  She  was  born  July  1,  1864,  at 
Ashland,  Mass.,  and  has  spent  her  life  at  home  since  leaving 
the  Oread. 

Address :    Manchester,  Mass. 


Hattie  Langdon  entered  the  ( )read  in  1876  and  left  in  1879. 
Her  father's  name  was  William  Wesley  Langdon,  her  mother's 
maiden  name  Julia  Ellen  Phelps. 

Hattie  was  born  January  4,   i860,  in  Montville,  Mass.      On 


January  3,  iSijo,  she  was  married  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  to  Wil- 
liam E.  Wallace,  a  nurseryman. 

They  have  one  daughter,  born  June  6,  1893,  in  Hartford. 

Address:  .Mrs.  William  E.  Wallace,  57  Farmington  Ave.. 
I  [artford,  (  <  mn, 


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Minnie  A.  Larkham  was  born  in  Carolina.  R.  I.,  in  1 S 5 7 . 
and  was  the  daughter  of  David  Lorenzo  and  Sarah  (  Brackett  ) 
Larkham.  She  entered  the  (  >read 
in  1878,  leaving  in  December.  1879. 
She  taught  in  the  public  schools 
in  Connecticut  for  several  years, 
and  was  at  one  time  assistant  in  the 
postoffice  at  Yoluntown,  Conn.  On 
January  29,  1885,  she  was  married 
to  Frank  H.  Myers  of  Norwich. 
Conn.,  who  was  manager  and  col- 
lector for  the  Singer  Manufacturing 
Company,  and  who  died  December 
21,  1892.  On  June  I,  1894.  she 
was  married  to  George  E.  Johnson, 
a  locomotive  engineer  of  Boston. 

Address:    Mrs.  George  E.  Johnson,  Lorette  St..  West  Rox- 
burv,  Mass. 


May  W.  Larned  was  born  in  Auburn,  Mass..  in  1861.  Her 
father  was  B.  F.  Larned,  probably  a  descendant  of  the  French 
Huguenots.  Her  mother,  M.  E.  (Lloadley)  Larned,  was  of 
Scotch  ancestry. 

May  entered  the  Oread  in  November,  1876,  and  left  in  June, 
1877.  She  attended  school  four  years  after  leaving  the  Oread, 
was  in  her  father's  office  a  year  and  then  for  ten  years  taught 
school  in  Massachusetts,  in  Nebraska,  and  on  the  islands  on  the 
coast  of  Maine.  In  1893  she  was  married  to  Oliver  P.  Kibben, 
a  hardware  dealer  and  ranchman,  who  had  four  children. 

Address :    Mrs.  Oliver  P.  Kibben,  Curtis.  Neb. 


Edith  Leach  was  born  in  Brockton,  Mass.,  October  28.  1861. 
She  is  a  sister  of  Anna  and  Abby  Leach,  who  were  graduated 
from  the  Oread  in  1871.  After  leaving  the  Oread  in  June, 
1878,  she  was  graduated  from  Smith  College  (1883).  and  then 
taught  in  private  schools  in  Xew  York  and  Xew  Haven.  She 
is  at  present  Corresponding  Secretary  in  the  Woman's  Club 
of  her  town. 

Address:    710  Crescent  St..  Brockton,  Mass. 


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Elizabeth  Lees  ("Lizzie"),  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Heathcott)  Lees,  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  October 
14,  1847.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  September,  1864,  to 
June,  1867,  and  was  married  in  Barre,  Mass.,  May  4,  1869,  to 
George  L.  Pierce.  She  had  four  children,  all  born  in  Barre : 
George  S.,  born  August  2,  1872;  Carrie  L.,  born  August  9, 
1874;  E.  LeRoy,  born  January  10,  1878;  Henry  L.,  born  Sep- 
tember 19,  1880.  Only  the  last  two  children  are  now  living. 
The  younger  son  is  in  business  in  Barre,  and  the  other  in  Boston. 
Henry  was  married  February  23,  1905,  to  Sarah  M.  Packard 
of  Barre. 

Address :    Mrs.  George  L.  Pierce,  Barre,  Mass. 

Marcia  Leland  attended  the  Oread  one  year,  entering  in  1874. 
Her  father  was  Lorenzo  Leland,  and  her  mother  Marcia  Maltby. 

The  earliest  Leland  known  is  John  Leland,  who  was  born  in 
London,  England,  about  the  year  1512.  He  lived  during  the 
reign  of  Henry  VIII,  and  was  one  of  the  most  accomplished 
scholars  and  voluminous  writers  of  the  sixteenth  century. 
Henry  VIII  made  him  his  chaplain,  and  created  a  new  office  for 
him,  that  of  the  King's  Antiquary.  The  first  member  of  the 
family  in  this  country  was  Henry  Leland,  who  came  here  in  1625. 

Aaron  Kimball,  another  of  Miss  Leland's  ancestors,  was  com- 
missioned Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  on  account  of  his 
past  experience  and  his  valuable  services  at  the  battle  of  Lex- 
ington on  the  19th  of  April,  1775. 

Miss  Leland  was  born  in  Ottawa,  111.  She  was  married  to 
Dr.  C.  H.  Davies,  October  16,  1878,  at  Ottawa.  They  have 
had  three  children:  Charles  Leland,  born  August  6,  1879; 
Arthur  Johnston,  born  August  16,  1881  ;  and  Frank  Everett, 
born  April  16,  1885,  all  in  El  Dorado,  Kan.  Arthur  died  Jan- 
uary 13,  1884,  and  Frank  December  28,  1887.  Their  only  sur- 
viving son,  Charles  Leland,  was  graduated  from  Kansas  Uni- 
versity in  1902  with  the  degree  of  A.B.,  and  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
stand.  He  has  entered  a  law  school  and  will  make  the  law  his 
profession. 

Mrs.  Davies  has  lived  a  quiet  home  life  at  El  Dorado  and  in 
Kansas  City  since  her  marriage.  She  belongs  to  several  social 
clubs,  a  literary  club,  and  a  ceramic  club. 

Address:  Mrs.  C.  H.  Davies,  628  Freeman  Ave.,  Kansas 
City,  Kans. 


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Martha   B.   Lincoln,   who  entered  the  Oread  in    1869,   was 


born   at   Lancaster,   Mass., 


She  died  December  24.  1! 


November  30,  1846,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Doctor  Henry  and 
Martha  (Bond)  Lincoln.  After 
leaving-  the  Oread  and  spending  a 
year  with  private  teachers  in  Bos- 
ton, for  a  few  years  she  conducted 
a  private  school  in  Wilkesbarre, 
Pa.  Later  she  taught  for  a  short 
time  in  a  public  school  in  Lancas- 
ter. Finding  her  strength  unequal 
to  that  work,  she  gave  it  up.  After 
a  long  rest  she  took  a  private  school 
in  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  but  a 
weak  heart  caused  her  to  leave  it 
before  the  close  of  the  school  year. 
7,  after  some  months  of  invalidism. 


Mary  E.  Lincoln,  daughter  of  William  Lincoln  of  Oakham, 
Mass..  and  his  wife,  Maria  Allen,  was  born  in  Oakham,  July  18, 
1853.  Her  grandfather,  James  Allen  of  Oakham,  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  War  of  1812,  and  her  two 
great-grandfathers  in  the  same  line, 
Jesse  Allen  and  Xathaniel  Crocker, 
fought  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
Among  her  Mayflower  ancestors  were 
Isaac  Allerton.  James  Chilton  and 
Richard  Warren.  Other  Pilgrim  an- 
cestors were  Thomas  Cushman,  Rob- 
ert Bartlett,  Xathaniel  Morton  and 
John  Winslow. 

Her  father  was  an  intimate  friend 
of  John  B.  Gough,  the  well-known 
temperance  lecturer,  and  after  her 
mother's  death,  married  again  into  his  family.  Mary  was  often 
at  Hillside.  Mr.  Gough's  hospitable  home  in  Boylston,  where 
she  met  many  distinguished  persons  and  had  access  to  Mr. 
Gough's  fine  library  and  art  collections. 

She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  year  1871-72.     On  July 
18,   1872.  she  was  married  at  Worcester  to  George  I.  Alden. 


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Mr.  Alden  was  Professor  of  Theoretical  and  Applied  Mechanics 
in  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute,  and  had  charge  of  the 
Department  of  Mechanical  Engineering.  When  he  left  the 
Institute,  in  [896,  he  was  Dean  of  the  Faculty.  Since  that 
time  he  has  been  Treasurer  of  the  Norton  Emery  Wheel  Com- 
pany, and  Treasurer  of  the  Plunger  Elevator  Company  of 
Worcester.  His  degrees  are  B.S.  from  Harvard  (1868),  and 
M.M.E.  from  Cornell  (1890). 

Professor  and  Mrs.  Alden  had  two  daughters:  Clara  Louise, 
born  April  26,  1873,  graduated  from  Wellesley  College  in  the 
class  of  1897,  and  continued  her  studies  there  for  nearly  a  year 
after  her  graduation;  Mary  Francis,  born  May  1,  1876,  died 
in  December,  1879. 

Mrs.  Alden  died  November  2$,  1876. 


Nellie  S.  Loring  was  born  December  1,  1849,  a^  Rockport, 
Me.,  her  parents  being  Edwin  and  Nancy  (Tngraham)  Lor- 
ing. She  entered  the  Oread  in  1864. 
After  leaving  school  in  1867,  she 
traveled  in  Germany  and  Sweden, 
lived  for  one  year  in  Boston,  and 
then  went  to  Maine,  where  she  was 
married,  in  Rockport,  June  20,  187 1, 
to  George  13.  Sidelinger,  Superinten- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the 
Water  Company,  Danville,  111.  She 
has  had  three  children  :  Bertha,  born 
October  11,  1872,  now  Mrs.  John  W. 
Thomas  of  Rockland,  Me.;  Eleanor, 
born  September  5,  1874,  now  Mrs. 
111.;    and  George,  born  Februarv  12, 


David  Beyer  of  Danville. 
1877.  wli<>  died  in   1886. 

Address:    Mrs.  George  l'>.  Sidelinger,  Danville. 


111. 


Emma  Lyford,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Adams  Lyford  and 
Emeline  Frances  Forbes,  liis  wife,  was  born  in  Cazenovia,  N.  V., 
\ugust  30,  1850.  Her  ancestors  were  English  and  Scotch. 
(  >n  her  mother's  side  she  traces  her  family  to  the  Forbes  clan 
of  Scotland.  After  the  death  of  her  mother  she  was  brought 
up  at  her  uncle's  home  in   East   Brookfield,  Mass..  and  entered 


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the  Oread  in  1866.  She  was  married  March  30,  1882,  in  East 
Brookfield  to  T.  A.  Curtis,  who  is  in  the  corset  business.  They 
lived  first  in  North  Brookfield,  and  afterwards  in  Newark,  N.  J. 
Of  her  four  children  only  two  survive :  Harold  Forbes,  born 
March  9,  1883,  in  Xorth  Brookfield,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Newark 
High  School ;  Kenneth  Ray,  born  April  27,  1889,  in  Newark, 
attends  the  Franklin  Grammar  School  in  that  city.  Mrs.  Cur- 
tis is  engaged  in  charitable  work  along  church  and  W.  C.  T.  U. 
lines. 

Address:    Mrs.  T.  A.  Curtis,  220  Clifton  Ave..  Newark.  N.  J. 

Belle  B.  Mackintire,  the  daughter  of  George  E.  and  A.  \Y. 
(  Barker)  Mackintire,  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1858. 
of  Scotch  and  English  ancestry. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1872  and  left  the  following  year. 
She  has  been  a  Sloyd  teacher  and  has  written  a  number  of 
papers  on  Sunday  School  and  boys'  club  work,  in  which  she  is 
much  interested,  and  in  which  she  is  herself  active. 

She  is  now  living  at  51  Avon  Hill  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Ellen  A.  Mahoney,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Alice  (Ford) 
Mahoney,  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  October  30,  1848.  She 
attended  the  Oread  from  January.   1864,  to  June,   1867.     She 


remained  at  home,  keeping  house  for  her  father,  until  her  mar- 
riage in  Barre,  Mass.,  October  1.  1890,  to  Austin  F.  Adams,  a 
farmer.     He  has  held  several  town  offices  and  served  two  terms 


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in  the  Legislature.  Mrs.  Adams  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Aid 
Society  at  Barre  Plains.  As  a  result  of  the  labors  of  this  society 
a  Union  Chapel  was  built  in  Barre  Plains  in  1899. 

Address :    Airs.  Austin  F.  Adams,  Barre  Plains,  Mass. 

Alice  Isabel  Mallalieu,  known  at  the  Oread  as  Belle  Malla- 
lieu,  was  born  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  July  28,  1856.  Her  father 
was  George  Washington  Mallalieu,  brother  of  Bishop  Willard 
Francis  Mallalieu  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Her 
mother's  maiden  name  was  Lydia  Dyke  Tourtellotte.  Both 
were  of  Huguenot  and  Puritan  descent. 

Belle  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1878-79.  She  was  mar- 
ried in  Millbury,  June  16,  1892,  to  Herman  J.  Molt,  of  the 
firm  of  Molt  Brothers,  indigo  blue  dye  manufacturers.  One 
son,  George  Mallalieu  Molt,  was  born  August  5,  1896,  at  Mill- 
bury, Mass.     Mrs.  Molt  died  August  28,  1896. 

Emma  Agnes  Manley,  daughter  of  Frederick  White  and 
Mary  Louise  (Hale)  Manley,  was  born  in  Washington,  Mass., 
February  24,   1859.     Her  paternal  ancestors  came  from  Eng- 


land and  settled  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  early  in  the  seventeenth 
century.  Her  mother  was  descended  from  Abram  Crittenden, 
who  came  from  England  in  1035,  and  settled  in  New  Haven. 
Later  he  left  the  New  Haven  Colony  and  became  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  the  Guilford  Colony.  Emma's  great-grand- 
father, William  Crittenden,  was  in  the  Revolutionary  War  from 
its  beginning  to  its  end.      He  was  one  of  those  to  respond  to 


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the  Lexington  alarm  April  19,  1775.  enlisted  five  times  and 
fought  in  several  great  battles  in  the  first  half  of  the  war.  1  It- 
later  joined  the  navy,  was  twice  captured,  and  the  last  time  was 
carried  to  England  and  confined  on  the  ship  Victory  till  the 
war  was  ended. 

Emma  attended  the  (  >read  in  1878.  October  18.  1882,  she 
was  married  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  to  J.  William  Bailey,  who  is 
connected  with  the  Alberene  Stone  Company  of  Xew  York. 
Since  her  marriage  she  has  spent  a  large  portion  of  her  time 
in  painting,  especially  china  painting,  in  which  she  is  unusually 
proficient.  For  a  number  of  years  she  was  active  in  church 
work,  as  teacher  and  assistant  superintendent  in  the  Sunday 
School.  She  is  a  member  of  Wadsworth  Chapter,  D.  A.  R.,  the 
first  chapter  formed  in  Connecticut.  For  two  years  she  was 
its  secretary,  and  has  twice  represented  it  at  the  National  Con- 
gress in  Washington. 

The  summer  of  1900  she  spent  abroad.  She  saw  the  Passion 
Play  performed  at  Ober-Ammergan.  and  upon  her  return  home 
gave  lectures  upon  this  subject,  both  with  and  without  the 
stereopticon.  These  lectures  were  highly  commended  by  her 
audience  and  by  the  press. 

Mrs.  Bailey  has  traveled  extensively.  She  has  visited  eight 
different  countries,  and  has  spent  much  time  in  studying  the 
peculiar  manners  and  customs  of  the  various  nationalities. 

Address:    Mrs.  I.  William  Bailey,*  Middletown,  Conn. 


Fannie  Isabella  Mann,  daughter 
of  Xehemiah  P.  and  Elizabeth  M. 
(Pittman)  Mann,  was  born  in  South 
Boston,  and  was  a  sister  of  Caro- 
line A.  Mann,  who  entered  the 
Oread  in  1856. 

Fannie  Mann  attended  the  Oread 
in  1865-66.  After  leaving  school 
she  lived  a  quiet  life  at  home,  de- 
voting herself  to  her  family  and  to 
charitable  and  church  work.  She 
died  after  an  illness  of  a  year  and 
a   half   with   consumption.   May    10, 

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Meroe  F.,  Julia  C,  and  Ella  P.  Marston  entered  the  Oread 
in  the  fall  of  1868,  coming  from  Waterville,  Me.  They  were 
pupils  at  the  Oread  till  1872.  Their  father  was  William  Mars- 
ton,  a  farmer,  and  their  mother 
Caroline  Farns worth,  the  daughter 
of  Judge  Farnsworth.  Mrs.  Mars- 
ton  lost  her  life  in  the  Ashtabula 
railroad  disaster  which  occurred  De- 
cember 29,  1876.  Mr.  Marston 
died  several  years  ago. 

Meroe  Farnsworth  Marston  was 
born  in  Waterville,  June  6,  1845, 
and  died  of  pneumonia  after  a  brief 
illness,  January  15,  1883.  She  was 
never  strong.  The  most  of  her 
early  life  was  spent  at  home,  where 

she  was  care  full  v  guarded  and  cared 
meroe.  -  ° 

for    by    her    devoted    family.      The 

gentleness  and  refinement  of  her  nature,  her  lovable  unselfish- 
ness, and  her  affectionate  disposition  won  for  her  a  large  circle 
of  life-long  friends,  for  once  to  know  her  was  always  to  love 
her. 

Her  mother's  sudden  death  in  the  Ashtabula  disaster,  while 
accompanying  her  son's  wife  and  child  to  their  home  in  the 
West,  brought  out  wonderfully  her  sweet  Christian  character. 
She  knew  how  to  forget  herself  and  bring  comfort  and  sooth- 
ing to  the  bereaved  father,  and  also  to  her  brother,  whose 
triple  loss  of  mother,  wife  and  child  was  an  almost  unbearable 
affliction. 

She  was  of  an  artistic  temperament,  and  had  a  decided  talent 
for  painting,  an  occupation  to  which  she  devoted  much  time, 
and  in  which  she  found  much  pleasure.  She  seemed  so  emi- 
nently fitted  for  service  here,  in  making  the  world  the  better 
by  her  gentle  and  refining  influence,  that  her  death  was  a  severe 
blow,  and  to  none  more  so  than  to  her  teachers  and  schoolmates 
at  the  Oread,  to  whom  her  life  had  been  indeed  a  benediction. 

Julia  C.  Marston  was  born  October  28,  1850,  and  died  March 
18,  1874,  of  consumption,  which  developed  from  an  attack  of 
pneumonia  contracted  in  Boston  while  studying  medicine  there. 
She  was  a  girl  of  strong  will  and  sturdy  character,  the  verv 


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opposite  in  complexion  and  manner  of  her  older  sister,  but 
genuine  and  frank.  In  her  last  sickness  she  trusted  her 
Saviour,  to  whom  she  then  gave  herself  fully,  and  died  saying, 
''Sweet  peace  by  and  by." 

Ella  P.  Marston  was  born  December  13,  1852.     After  leaving 


JULIA. 


the  Oread  she  studied  and  taught  music  in  Worcester  until  the 
death  of  her  mother  in  1876.  She  then  returned  to  her  father's 
home  and  remained  there,  caring  for  him  until  her  marriage, 
January  22,  1890,  to  Howard  C.  Morse,  a  merchant  of  Water- 
ville.  Mr.  Morse  has  held  many  public  offices,  and  is  this  year 
Assessor  in  Waterville.  They  live  in  the  city,  but  spend  a 
portion  of  every  summer  in  the  old  farmhouse,  two  or  three 
miles  out  of  the  town,  which  was  Mrs.  Morse's  childhood 
home. 

She  has  two  children :  Meroe  Farnsworth,  born  October  22, 
1890,  and  Harold  Comfort,  born  March  24.  1892.  Harold  has 
marked  musical  ability. 

Address :    Mrs.  Howard  C.  Morse.  "Waterville,  Me. 


Sylvia  A.  Martin,  who  attended  the  Oread  from  the  autumn 
of  1870  till  the  spring  of  1872,  was  born  in  Cassville,  now 
Bradford  Center,  Vt.  Her  parents  were  Abner  Harriman  and 
Sarah  (Jenness)  Martin.  On  the  paternal  side  she  is  descended 
from  the  Pilgrim  Martins  and  from  Leonard  Harriman,  whose 


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will  is  preserved  in  the  Salem  Museum,  while  on  the  maternal 
side  she  is  descended  from  Colonel  Thomas  S.  Jenness  and 
Colonel  John  Smith. 

She  was  married  to  Edward  Moss,  a  machinist,  for  more  than 


ten  years  Superintendent  of  the  Wright  Machine  Company,  and 
later  a  real  estate  broker.  He  died  in.  January,  1894.  They 
had  four  children:  Edward  A.  D.,  now  a  lawyer,  was  married 
in  1900  to  Josephine  G.  Lynch  of  Worcester  and  has  one  son, 
Edward  A.  D.,  Jr.,  born  in  July,  1902;  George  C.  and  Albert 
H.  are  civil  engineers,  and  George  was  married  in  1902  at 
Irwin,  Iowa,  to  Grace  G.  Marcoe ;  Florence  E.  is  attending  the 
South  High  School  in  Worcester. 

Address:    Mrs.  Sylvia  A.  Moss,  175  Chandler  St.,  Worcester. 


Mary  A.  Marvin,  daughter  of  Rev.  Abijah  P.  and  Caroline 
(Holbrook)  Marvin,  was  born  in  Winchendon,  Mass.,  July  17, 
1849.  She  was  a  day  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1865.  After  leav- 
ing she  attended  Wheaton  Seminary  in  Norton,  Mass.,  and 
graduated  in  1870.  She  has  taught  in  Winchendon,  Mass., 
Waterbury,  Conn.,  and  Lancaster,  Mass.,  and  was  Matron  for 
five  years  in  the  Butler  Hospital  for  the  Insane  in  Providence, 
R.  I.  For  the  past  ten  years  she  has  lived  at  home  with  her 
mother.  She  is  actively  engaged  in  Sunday  School  and  mis- 
sion work. 

Address:    Lancaster,  Mass. 


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Addie  Q.  Mathews,  the  daughter  of  Winthrop  and  Mary 
(Barber)  Mathews,  was  born  in  South  Paris.  Me.,  April  6, 
1852.  She  attended  the  Oread  from  April,  1874.  to  May.  1875. 
After  leaving  that  institution  she  taught  for  one  year  in  the 
Paris  High  School,  and  was  married  June  2J,  1876,  to  William 
J.  Wheeler.     Mr,  Wheeler's  business  is  insurance. 

She  has  had  rive  children,  all  born  in  South  Paris :  Howard 
Gleason,  born  April  14,  1877.  was  educated  at  the  Paris  schools, 
the  Edward  Little  Institute  (Auburn)  and  Bates  College.  At 
present  he  resides  at  Burlington.  Vt,  and  is  a  Division  Inspector 
of  Xew  England  telephones. 

Alice  Marian,  born  April  26.  1878,  was  educated  at  the  Paris 
schools  and  the  Gorham  Normal  School  ( Gorham,  Me.).  She 
was  married  October  24.  1900.  to  A.  J.  Stearns,  and  lives  in 
Norway,  Me. 

Susie  May,  born  September  6.  1880.  and  educated  in  the  Paris 
schools,  is  studying  music  in  Portland,  Me. 

Stanley  Mathews,  born  March  6,  1884,  is  ni  die  Hebron 
Fitting  School  (Hebron,  Me.),  and  Robert  W..  born  August 
10,  1888,  is  in  the  Paris  High  School. 

Address:    Mrs.  William  I.  Wheeler,  South  Paris,  Me. 


Leila  Agnes  McClellan  was  the  daughter  of  Deacon  John 
and  Ama  (Daggett)  McClellan. 
Mrs.  McClellan  was  the  daughter 
of  Hon.  Ebenezer  Daggett  of 
Attleboro.  The  McClellan  family 
is  of  Scotch  ancestry,  having  come 
to  this  country  from  Scotland  in 
the  seventeenth  century.  Deacon 
McClellan  was  deeply  interested  in 
religious  and  educational  move- 
ments, and  held  offices  of  trust  in 
town  and  state. 

Leila  McClellan  was  born  in  Sut- 
ton, Mass.,  February  2$,  1852,  and 
was    a    pupil    at    the    Oread    from 

April,  1869,  to  June,  1870.  She  died  July  29,  1875.  Excellent 
qualities  of  mind  and  heart  were  so  combined  in  her  as  to  form 
a  character  of  unusual  strength  and  beauty,  which  man}'  still 
hold  in  loving  memory. 


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Abbie  McFarland,  daughter  of  Warren  McFarland  and  his 
wife,  Jerusha  Edwards  White,  was  born  November  13,  1852,  in 

Worcester.  Her  father  was  proprie- 
tor of  the  Arcade  Malleable  Iron 
Works.  Her  mother  was  a  member 
of  the  well-known  Cutler  family, 
and  a  descendant  of  General  John 
Cutler.  Abbie  was  at  the  Oread 
in  1868-70.  She  was  married  to 
George  Beecher  Buckingham  of 
Worcester,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
Malleable  Iron  business.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  Citizens'  Bank,  and 
a  thirty-third  degree  Mason.  They 
have  one  son,  Harold  Paul,  and 
two  daughters,  Alice  Perkins  and 
Florence  Edith.  The  latter  is  married  to  Irving  Woodward 
Hollingshead,  M.D.,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Address:    Mrs.  George  B.  Buckingham,  20  King  St.,  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 


Alice  L.  Mcintosh,  daughter  of  Samuel  Joseph  and  Eveline 
L.  (Bumstead)  Mcintosh,  was  born  in  Vermilion,  N.  Y., 
December  23,  1858.  Her  father,  who  was  of  Scotch  descent, 
served  in  the  Civil  War,  and  both  her  great-grandfathers  on 
her  mother's  side,  Joseph  Bumstead  and  Asahel  Hurlburt,  in 
the  Revolutionary  War. 

She  entered  the  (  )read  in  September,  1872,  and  left  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1873.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  on  June  22,  1876, 
she  was  married  to  W.  Herbert  Stone  at  New  England  Village, 
Mass.  Mr.  Stone  was  in  the  meat  and  grocery  business  in 
Worcester  for  many  years,  and  since  his  retirement,  about  five 
years  ago,  lias  been  carrying  on  a   farm  in  Shrewsbury. 

They  had  nine  children,  seven  of  whom  are  still  living: 
Eugene  II..  burn  February  17,  1877,  at  Shrewsbury;  Ada  !>., 
born  July  [6,  [878,  married  September  25,  1^02,  to  Dr.  C.  A. 
Lakin  of  Worcester;  Eva  !•'..  born  April  8,  [880;  Edith  A., 
born  September  6,  r882,  ;i  graduate  of  Becker's  Business  Col- 
lege, and  at  present  a  bookkeeper;    Walter  E.,  born  November 


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r63  1884;  Dolly  L..  horn  September  23,  1887,  died  January  14, 
1891;  Bertha  L.,  born  January  31.  [89]  :  Ruth  (  i..  horn  June 
[9,  1892:  and  Everett  M..  horn  June  8,  181)4,  died  November  4. 
1897.     All  except  the  eldest  son  were  horn  in   Worcester. 

Mrs.  Stone  is  a  charter  member  of  Pilgrim  Church  in  Wor- 
cester. 

Address:    Mrs.  W.  Herbert  Stone.  Shrewsbury,  Mass. 


Ida  E.  Merriam  was  born  November  21,  1856,  at  Westmin- 
ster.   Mass..   and    was   the   daughter   of    Artemas   and    Salome 

(Holden)  Merriam.  She. is  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  her  ancestors  coming 
from  liadlow.  Kent  County.  Eng- 
land, in  1638. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1872  and 
left  in  1874.  The  first  year  after 
leaving  school  was  spent  in  the  study 
of  music  in  Boston,  and  this  was 
followed  by  a  few  years  of  music 
teaching. 

She  was  married  December  15, 
1875.  to  S.  Dwight  Simonds  at 
Westminster.  Mr.  Simonds  is  a 
lumber  dealer.  He  has  been  Selectman  of  the  town  for  sev- 
eral terms,  and  has  represented  the  district  in  the  Legislature. 

They  have  three  children,  all  born 
at  Westminster:  Ralph  Merriam, 
born  October  24.  1878;  Donald 
Dwight,  born  October  20.  1885 ; 
Stella  Salome,  born  August  30. 
1888.  Ralph  was  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1902,  and  is  now  in  the  office  of 
the  Graton  &  Knight  Manufactur- 
ing Company.  Donald  is  in  the 
English  High  School.  Worcester, 
and  is  fitting  for  the  Polytechnic 
Institute.  Stella  is  in  the  English 
High  School. 

Address:    Mrs.  S.  Dwight  Simonds. 
cester,  Mass. 


12  Beeching  St.,  Wor- 


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Genevieve  Merrill,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1873,  was  the 
daughter  of  George  S.  and  Sarah  J.  (Weston)  Merrill,  and  was 
born  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  April  16,  1857. 

She  was  married  to  Frank  A.  Magee  at  Lawrence  in   1878, 


and  the  following  year  a  son,  John,  was  born  at  Chelsea,  Mass. 
Her  younger  son,  George,  was  born  in  1883,  also  at  Chelsea. 
Both  the  boys  were  educated  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology. 

Mr.  Magee  is  President  of  the  Magee  Furnace  Company. 

Address :    Mrs.  Frank  A.  Magee,  Wenham  Depot,  Mass. 

Susie   Metz  was  born  in   Xew  York  City  on  December  6, 


[865,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Charlotta    (  Baumann)    Metz. 
She  attended  the  Oread   from   [879  to   [881.     She  was  married 


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January  8,  1885,  in  Kllenville,  X.  Y..  to  Frederick   Freileweh, 
and  has  one  son,  John  Eastgate  Freileweh,  born  in   Ellenville. 
Address:    Airs.  Frederick   Freileweh,  Ellenville,  X.   Y. 

Annie  Robinson  Moies  was  born  in  Central  Falls,  R.  I.,  in 
1852,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Roby  A.  (  Knight) 
Aloies.  Both  great-grandfathers  on  the  maternal  side  served 
honorably  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Annie  attended  the  ( )read 
in  1865.  She  was  married  to  John  C.  MacMurray,  and  has  two 
sons,  Robinson  K.  and  Kenneth.  She  is  active  in  Woman's 
Club  work,  and  has  written  various  essays  for  clubs  and  classes. 

Address:    Airs.  John  C.  AlacAIurray,  Olympia,  Wash. 

M.  Jennie  Moran,  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Alary  A. 
(Hey wood)  Aloran,  was  born  at  Dudley,  Alass.,  October  27, 
1 85 1.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868  and  left  in  1870.  June 
23,  1874,  she  was  married  at  Worcester  to  Charles  H.  Benchley, 
son  of  ex-Lieutenant-Governor  H.  W.  Benchley  of  Massachu- 
setts. Air.  Benchley  is  Alayor's  Secretary  and  was  Comman- 
der of  George  H.  Ward   Post  10,  G.  A.  R.,  in  1887. 

They  had  two  children:  Edmund  Nathaniel,  born  Alarch  3, 
1876,  at  Worcester,  and  Robert  Charles,  born  September  15, 
1889,  also  at  Worcester.  Edmund  entered  the  West  Point 
Military  Academy  in  June.  1894,  and  was  graduated  April  26, 
1898.  He  was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Sixth 
United  States  Infantry,  and  fell  at  the  battle  of  San  Juan  Hill, 
Santiago,  Cuba,  on  July  1,  1898,  being  the  only  soldier  from 
Worcester  who  fell  in  that  battle.  He  was  recommended  to 
Congress  for  brevet  for  gallantry  in  action.  A  marble  bust  of 
Lieutenant  Benchley,  presented  by  E.  A.  Goodnow  of  Worcester, 
is  now  in  the  hall  of  the  Worcester  English  High  School,  of 
which  he  was  a  graduate.  Another  bust  was  placed  in  the 
Woodland  Street  School  in  Worcester.  Robert,  the  younger 
son,  now  attends  a  preparatory  school,  fitting  for  college. 

Airs.  Benchley  is  a  member  of  the  George  H.  Ward  Woman's 
Relief  Corps. 

Address:  Airs.  Charles  H.  Benchley,  2  King  St.,  Worcester. 
Alass. 

Emma  Louise  Morrill,  daughter  of  George  H.  and  Sarah 
Bond  (Tidd)  Alorrill,  was  born  at  Andover,  Alass.,  Xovember 


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4,  1853.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  1868.  She  was  married  to 
Edmund  James  Shattuck  at  Norwood  on  December  11,  1877. 
Mr.  Shattuck  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  George  H.  Morrill  & 
Co.,  Manufacturers  of  Printers'  Ink,  146  Congress  St.,  Boston, 
Mass.  Mrs.  Shattuck  has  five  children:  Lois  M.,  and  Louise 
M.,  twins,  born  August  30,  1878;  Maude  A.,  born  September  1, 
1880:  Edmund  J.,  Jr..  born  August  24,  1887;  and  Sarah  Bond 
Morrill,  born  April  3,  1805.  Maude  is  a  graduate  of  Smith 
College  in  the  class  of  1902.  Lois  and  Louise  are  graduates  of 
Smith  College  in  the  class  of  1903. 

Address:    Mrs.  Edmund  J.  Shattuck,   124  Winter  St.,  Nor- 
wood,  Mass. 


Esther  C.  Munsill  was  born  in  Wassaic,  N.  Y.,  June  10,  1862. 

She  was  the  daughter  of  Mills  S.  and  Mary  J.  ( Borden)  Munsill. 

(jail  Borden,  inventor  of  condensed 
milk,  was  her  grandfather.  She 
attended  the  Oread  from  1876-78. 
On  October  2y,  1886,  she  was 
married  to  John  Llrich,  an  en- 
graver with  the  Winchester  Repeat- 
ing Arms  Company,  New  Haven, 
Conn.  They  have  three  children : 
Leslie  Borden,  born  in  Hartford, 
August  31,  1888;  Anna  Marguerite, 
born  in  New  Haven,  October  26, 
1891  ;  and  John  Munsill,  born  in 
New  Haven,  June  27,,  1897.  The 
children  have  all  been  educated  in 

the  public  schools  of   New  Haven.      Mrs.  Ulrich  is  active  in 

the  \v<»rk  of  her  own  church. 

Address:    Mrs.  John   Ulrich,    1420  Chapel  St..  New  Haven, 

Conn. 


Lizzie  M.  Newell,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  A. 
(  Pike)  Newell,  was  born  in  Dover,  Mass.,  February  14,  1852. 
She  entered  the  <  >read  in  i860,  and  left  in  1870.  In  Newton, 
Mass.,  (  )ctober  20.  1875,  she  was  married  to  Gurdon  H.  Tucker, 
a  bank  clerk.  Mr.  Tucker  died  in  1882.  Her  children  are: 
Newell,  born  at  Newton,  (  >ctober  8,  1870,  and  Ethel  S.,  born  at 


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Newton,  November  15,  1878.  The)'  were  educated  in  the  New- 
ton schools,  and  are  both  married.  The  daughter  is  living  in 
Pittsburg.  Pa. 

Address :  Mrs.  Lizzie  M.  Tucker,  957  Boylston  St.,  Newton 
Highlands,  Mass. 

Julia  Belle  Newton  was  born  in  1855  in  West  Boylston, 
Mass.,  and  was  the  daughter  of  George  F.  and  Martha  M. 
(Flagg)  Newton.  Her  mother  was  an  Oread  pupil  of  185 1. 
Belle  was  at  the  Oread  in  1867  and  was  a  girl  of  fine  character, 
beloved  by  all  who  knew  her.  She  died  in  September,  1873. 
when  only  eighteen  years  of  age. 

Alida  J.  Norton,  the  daughter  of  Franklin  B.  and  Jane  C. 
(Felton)  Norton,  was  born  in  Bennington,  Yt.,  February  6, 
1852.  Her  great-grandfather  fought  in  the  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution. She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  the  fall  of  1871 
till  the  spring  of  1872.  On  April  23,  1873,  she  was  married 
at  Worcester  to  George  E.  Rice,  a  native  of  Barre,  but  at  that 
time  a  merchant  of  Worcester.  Mr.  Rice  is  a  veteran  of  the 
Civil  War,  having  served  for  three  years  in  the  34th  Massa- 
chusetts Regiment   (Company  E).     They  have  no  children. 

Mrs.  Rice  is  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  and  a 
worker  in  All  Saints  Church. 

Address:    Mrs.  George  E.  Rice,  15  Norton  St.,  Worcester. 


Mary  Paige,  born  in  Petersham, 
Mass.,  July  3,  1853,  daughter  of 
David  Cutler  and  Miranda  ( Hough- 
ton) Paige,  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread 
from  September,  1870,  till  February, 
1871. 

On  May  16,  1882,  she  was  married 
to  Arthur  C.  Mudge.  Pier  two  chil- 
dren were  loom  at  Newton,  Mass.. 
Hope  Rawson  on  May  16,  1883,  and 
John  Green  on  August  16,  1884. 
They  were  both  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Newton,  and  John 
passed  his  examinations  for  Harvard  University 


with  honors. 


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Airs.  Mudge  is  a  member  of  the  Social  Science  Club  of  Newton 
and  is  eligible  to  become  a  D.  A.  R.  through  an  ancestor  who 
was  a  Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Address :  Airs.  A.  C.  Mudge.  68  Pembroke  St.,  Newton,  Mass. 


Abbie  Perry  attended  the  Oread  from  the  fall  of  1874  until 
the  spring  of  1876.     She  was  born  in  Boylston  Centre.  Mass., 

June  2,  1857. 

Her  father  was  William  H.  Perry, 
a  member  of  the  school  committee 
in  Boylston  Centre  for  twenty-one 
years,  and  an  assessor  for  twenty- 
five  years.  Her  mother's  maiden 
name  was  Mary  A.  Mahan.  Dr. 
Samuel  Brigham  was  her  mother's 
grandfather. 

Miss  Perry  was  married  to  Alvin 
S.  Dearth,  a  grocer,  on  May  23,  1882. 
She  was  married  in  Worcester  and 
has  lived  there  since,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  three  years,  which  she  spent  at  her  old  home  in  Boylston, 
caring  for  her  parents.  After  her  father's  death  she  returned 
to  Worcester,  taking  her  mother  with  her. 

Address:    Mrs.  Alvin   S.   Dearth,    18  Lewis  St.,  Worcester. 


Emma  S.  Perry,  daughter  of  John  Gould  and  Harriet 
Theresa  (Hazard)  Perry,  was  born  April  17,  1849,  at  South 
Kingston,  R.  I.  (  )n  the  paternal  side  she  is  descended  from 
Edward  Perry,  a  Quaker  preacher,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  England  and  settled  in  Sandwich,  Mass.  Through  this 
descent  relationship  is  claimed  witb  Commodores  Oliver 
Hazard  and  Matthew  Calbraith  Perry.  She  is  descended  also 
from  Henry  Bull,  a  colonial  governor  of  Rhode  Island.  On 
the  maternal  side  she  is  descended  from  Thomas  Hazard,  the 
progenitor  of  the  Hazard  family  in  the  United  States.  His 
name  is  first  found  in  Boston  in  [635.  Benedict  Arnold, 
another   Rhode   Island  governor,  was  also  a  maternal   ancestor. 

Miss  Perry  entered  the  (  )read  in  January,  1808,  and  remained 
until   the  Hose  of   the  school    year   in    lune.      She   was   married 


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October  10.  1877,  at  Kingston,  R.  I.,  to  Herbert  J.  Wells,  a 
banker.  Mr.  Wells  is  President  of  the  Rbode  Island  Hospital 
Trust  Company  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  a  Trustee  of  Wellesley 
College.  Mrs.  Wells  has  six  children:  Grace  Perry,  born  in 
Providence,  R.  L.  February  15.  1879,  studied  four  years  at 
the  Rhode  Island  College  of  Agriculture  and  Mechanic  Arts, 
one  year  abroad,  and  one  year  at  Lasell  Seminar}'.  Auburndale, 
Mass. ;  Herbert  Comstock,  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  November 
21,  1880,  studied  in  the  Providence  English  Classical  High 
School,  and  is  now  at  Brown  University  ;  Emily  Porter,  born 
in  Kingston,  R.  I..  September  8,  1882,  was  graduated  from 
Dana  Hall  School,  Wellesley,  and  is  now  in  Wellesley  College  ; 
Thomas  Perry,  born  in  Kingston,  R.  I.,  April  5,  1884,  studied 
at  Taft's  School,  and  is  now  in  the  class  of  1908  at  Yale; 
John  Hazard,  born  December  29,  1885,  at  Kingston,  R.  I.,  is 
now  at  Taft's  School;  Elizabeth  Johnson,  born  at  Kingston, 
R.   I.,  April  20,    1890,  is   attending  the  village  school. 

Mrs.  Wells  has  been  identified  with  mission  work  connected 
with  her  church,  has  prepared  and  read  various  papers  for  the 
Every  Tuesday  Club,  of  which  she  was  President  for  three 
years,  has  prepared  papers  on  local  history,  which  she  has  read 
before  the  Xarragansett  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  was  Regent  of  this  Chapter  for  two  years. 

Address :    Mrs.  Herbert   I.  Wells,  Kingston.  R.  I. 


Nellie  M.  Philbrook,  daughter  of  John  and  Susan  (  Brown  ) 
Philbrook,  was  born  in  Augusta,  Me.,  September  3,  1844.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1864,  and  left  in  May.  1865. 

On  August  12,  1868,  she  was  married  at  Fairfield.  Me.,  to 
Ferdinand  V.  D.  Garretson.  a  Presbyterian  minister,  a  graduate 
of  Yale  University  in  the  class  of  1866,  and  of  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  Since  the  first  ten  years  of  their  married 
life  they  have  devoted  their  time  exclusively  to  home  mission- 
ary work,  and  have  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  one  large 
educational  institution  established  and  many  feeble  churches 
built  up  and  sustained  amid  most  adverse  surroundings.  They 
have  three  children :  Florence,  born  in  Florence.  Italy,  February 
4,  1870,  was  married  to  Arthur  Lockwood  Smith  of  Xew  York 
City,  has  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  is  actively  engaged 


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in  Christian  work  connected  with  her  church,  Sunday  School, 
and  Missionary  Society;  Jessie  Bowen,  born  in  New  York  City, 
August  22,  1871,  after  graduating  from  Columbia  College  and 
the  University  Law  School  was  married  to  James  Wells  Finch, 
a  lawyer  of  New  York  City,  has  one  child,  Elsie  Garretson,  and 
has  established  a  boarding  and  day  school  for  girls  ;  Carlton 
Goodrich,  born  in  Fisherville,  N.  H.,  November  22,  1878,  was 
married  to  Velma  Cook  of  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  August  29,  1901, 
and  is  editor  and  owner  of  the  Harrington  Citizen  and  of  the 
Down  Dispatch,  in  the  State  of  Washington. 

Address:    Mrs.  F.  V.  D.  Garretson,  Kelso,  Washington. 


Harriet  Beecher  Poole,  daughter  of  Ludo  Fiske  and,  Mary 

Jane     (Josselyn)     Poole,    was    born 
^^^  April    30,    1854,    in    Rockland,    then 

jjm     Wk±  East  Abington,  Mass.      She  spent  a 

aHP^^  Ik       snort  time  at  the  <  >read  in   [870. 

■^    ^  id  On    November   29,    [882,   she   was 

married  to  Austin  M.  Mitchell,  a 
dealer  in  real  estate,  who  died  De- 
cember 22,  1897.  She  has  one 
daughter,  Alice  Austin,  born  Octo- 
ber 2,  1883,  in  Rockland.  Mrs. 
Mitchell  is  Secretary  of  the  local 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  and  a  member  of  the  Auxil- 
iary Woman's  Board  of  Missions.  She  is  especially  interested 
in  work  for  the  orphans  in  India. 

Address:    Mrs.  Harriet  B.  Mitchell,  Rockland,  Mass. 


Cora  Isabelle  Powers  was  born  March  7,  1856,  at  Saunders- 
ville,  a  village  in  the  town  of  Grafton,  Mass.  Her  father  was 
John  J.  Towers,  who  held  a  position  of  trust  on  the  Providence 
and  Worcester  Railroad  for  twenty-nine  years,  when  he  retired 
to  devote  his  entire  time  to  the  coal  business,  which  he  had 
established  in  Worcester.  Her  mother,  Anne  Maria  (Stevens) 
Powers,  was  descended  from  an  old  and  influential  family  of 
Townsend,  Mass.,  which  had  a  high  reputation  for  musical 
ability  and  intellectual  culture,  and  her  father  lived  and  died  on 
the  place  where  several  generations  of  the  name  had  lived. 


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The  Stevens  family  have  been  prominent  in  the  history  of  the 
Baptist  Church  in  this  country.  Solomon  Stevens  (  1769)  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  Baptists,  and  when  the  church  was  still  small 
and  weak  his  home  was  headquarters  for  the  preachers.  His 
son  John  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Baptist  college  in 
Granville,  Ohio  (now  Denison  University),  and  was  its  Presi- 
dent till  he  was  past  eighty.     He  was  also  editor  of  a  Baptist 


paper.  Dr.  John  Stevens'  eldest  son,  William  A.  Stevens,  is 
now  Professor  of  New  Testament  Interpretation  in  Rochester 
Theological  Seminary. 

Cora  entered  the  Oread  in  1871,  and  was  a  boarding  pupil 
in  1872-73.  She  says,  "I  have  lived  nearly  all  my  life  in  the 
little  village  of  Saundersville  in  the  southeast  part  of  the  beau- 
tiful town  of  Grafton." 

She  was  married  in  December,  1887,  to  Frederick  A.  Dodge 
of  Sutton,  who  is  now  engaged  in  the  grain  business,  having 
a  mill  at  Saundersville,  and  a  wholesale  and  retail  store  at 
Woonsocket,  R.  I.  He  has  been  a  warden  and  lay-reader  in  St. 
John's  Episcopal  Church,  Sutton.  Their  children  are  :  Chester 
Arthur,  born  August  21,  1890,  and  Leslie  Powers,  born  June 
24,  1894.  Chester  is  now  in  the  High  School  and  Leslie  is  in 
the  fifth  grade. 

Airs.  Dodge  is  active  in  charitable  work  connected  with  the 
West  Congregational  Church  of  Grafton,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Woman's  Club  of  Millbury. 

Address :    Airs.  Frederick  A.  Dodsre,  Saundersville.  Mass. 


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Lucie  D.  Pratt  was  born  November  4,  1848,  at  Royalston, 
Mass.,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Bathsheba  (Delvey) 
Pratt.  She  attended  the  Oread  in  1865,  studied  and  taught 
a  few  years  and  later  was  employed  in  a  straw  shop.  At 
Petersham,  November  13,  1878,  she  was  married  to  Edwin  L. 
Taft,  a  provision  dealer.     She  is  engaged  in  church  work. 

Address :   Mrs.  Edwin  L.  Taft,  Station  A,  Gardner,  Mass. 


Marian  E.  Pratt,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1868,  was  born 
in  Worcester  September  1,  1852,  the  daughter  of  Samuel  A. 
and  Elizabeth  L.  (Whitney)  Pratt.  She  was  married  to 
Harlan  B.  Pierce,  a  commercial  traveler,  November  18,  1869, 
in  Worcester.  They  have  had  four  children :  Lizzie  H.,  born 
September  22,  1870,  was  married  to  Edwin  W.  Higgins  ;  Alice 
M.,  born  September  22,  1875,  was  married  to  Fred  W.  Greene; 
Maud  E.,  born  February  28,  1877,  died  May  31,  1894;  Dwight 
S.,  born  April  24,  1885,  is  in  the  Worcester  County  Institution 
for  Savings. 

Address:   Mrs.  Harlan  B.  Pierce,  257  Lincoln  St.,  Worcester. 


Address 
Mass. 


Sarah  Elizabeth  Quimby,  daugh- 
ter of  Horace  A.  and  Martha  Mor- 
gan ( Sanborn)  Quimby.  was  born 
at  Lyndon,  Yt.,  March  14,  1859. 
Through  her  grandfather,  Caleb  Gil- 
a  man,  who  was  in  the  battle  of  Ben- 

*f  nington  under  General  Stark,  she  is 

eligible  to  membership  in  the  asso- 
ciation of  the  D.  A.  R.  She  entered 
the  ( )read  in  September,  1878,  and 
left  in  June,  1879.  She  was  married 
(in  January  2T,,  1884,  to  John  Petti- 
grew,  a  member  of  the  Boston 
Stock  Exchange. 
Mrs.  John    Pettigrew,   138  Pearl   St.,   Springfield, 


Abby  Elizabeth  Redding,  daughter  of  John  and  Abigail 
(McCrillis)  Redding,  was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  August 
30,   1843. 


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She  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from  September,  1867.  until 
December,  1868.  She  was  married  in  January,  1869,  to  John  H. 
Clough  of  Kennebunk.  Me.,  and  1>v  this  marriage  had  one  son. 


born  April  3,  1870,  who  died  June  2"j  of  the  same  year.  Mr. 
Clough  died  in  1872. 

For  ten  years,  beginning  in  1872,  Mrs.  Clough  taught  in  the 
Worcester  schools,  being  for  nine  years  Principal  of  Sycamore 
Street  School.  On  August  22,  1882,  she  was  married  to  Jerome 
Marble.  Mr.  Marble  was  for  fifty  years  in  the  paints  and  oils 
business,  but  is  now  retired. 

For  ten  or  twelve  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marble  have  made 
annual  trips  to  the  West,  often  to  the  Pacific  coast.  Descrip- 
tions of  their  experiences  have  been  contributed  by  Mrs.  Marble 
to  magazines. 

Address:    Mrs.  Jerome  Marble.  2$  Harvard  St.,  Worcester. 


A.  Josie  Reed,  the  daughter  of  George  A.  and  Susan  Maria 
(Gurney)  Reed,  was  born  in  1855  in  South  Abington.  Mass. 
She  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Francis  Cook,  who  came  to  this 
country  in  the  Mayflower,  and  is  a  Daughter  of  the  American 
Revolution,  her  great-great-grandfather  having  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

Miss  Reed  came  to  the  Oread  in  1872  and  left  in  1874.  She 
was  married  in  1875,  in  South  Abington,  to  Elmer  Whiting 
Noyes,  a  grocer,  and  has  since  made  her  home  in  Whitman. 
Mass.,  where  her  only  daughter,  Louie  Josephine,  was  born  in 

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1883.     Louie  is  a  high  school  graduate,  and  has  also  studied  at 


Lasell  Seminary,  Auburndale,  Mass.     She  is  at  present  taking 
a  musical  course'  under  Arthur  Foote  of  Boston. 
Address :    Mrs.  Elmer  W.  Noyes,  Whitman,  Mass. 

May  Robinson  entered  the  Oread  in  1874,  and  remained  there 
for  three  years.  She  was  born  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  January  21, 
1859,  and  died  April  16,  1893,  at  Thomaston,  Me. 


Her  father  was  Ferdinand  Robinson,  a  descendant  of  George 
Robinson,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Rehoboth,  Mass.  Her 
mother  was  Emeline  (Kellogg)  Robinson,  a  descendant  of 
Joseph    Kellogg,   who   was  an   early  settler  of   Iladley,  Mass. 

After  leaving  the  <  )read    Miss   Robinson   spent  one  year  at 


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Baltimore,  Md.,  with  her  sister,  the  wife  of  Rev.  J.  O.  Peck, 
D.D.,  where  she  continued  the  study  of  French,  music  and 
painting.  She  also  spent  a  year  in  Chicago,  where  she  pur- 
sued the  same  studies,  and  later  took  up  painting  in  Xew 
York. 

She  was  married  in  Worcester  at  her  father's  home,  Septem- 
ber 7,  1881,  to  John  Creighton  of  Thomaston,  Me.  They  lived 
in  Thomaston  until  1885,  and  then  moved  to  Brooklyn,  X.  Y. 
In  1889  they  returned  to  Thomaston,  where  Mr.  Creighton 
entered  the  firm  of  J.  A.  Creighton  &  Co.,  lime  burners. 

Emilie  Creighton,  their  only  child,  was  born  at  Thomaston, 
Me.,  April  9,  1883.  She  attended  the  public  schools  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Mary  A.  Burnham  School  in 
Northampton,  Mass.     She  graduated  from  Smith  in  1904. 

Mrs.  Creighton  was  very  active  in  church  and  benevolent 
work,  and  in  whatever  sphere  of  life  she  moved,  she  was  most 
efficient  and  her  influence  was  helpful. 

Ella  Frances  Ross,  who  attended  the  Oread  from  1867  to 
1869,  was  born  at  Xatick,  R.  I.,  June  9,  1849,  hex  parents  being 
Captain  William  R.  Ross,  whose  place  of  birth  was  Chepachet, 


R.  I.,  and  Juliette  W.  Warner  of  Plainfield,  Conn.  Mrs.  Ross 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  the  famous  Revolutionary  General, 
Xathanael  Greene,  and  of  Roger  Williams.  Captain  Ross  was 
one  of  the  early  gold  seekers  in  California,  having  gone  there 
by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  At  the  time  of  the  Rebellion 
he  enlisted  in  the  Rhode  Island  cavalry,  expecting  to  be  sent 


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south,  but  the  government  was  in  need  of  this  branch  of  the  ser- 
vice to  quell  the  frequent  raids  of  Indians  from  across  the  Cana- 
dian border  in  the  northwest,  so  Captain  Ross  and  his  Rhode 
Island  troop  were  sent  there.  They  did  valiant  service,  and  soon 
captured  the  chiefs  who  were  the  leaders  in  these  raids,  taking 
them  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  they  were  tried  and  hanged. 

In  1874  Captain  Ross  and  his  family  removed  from  their  old 
home  at  Natick  to  Chicago.  There  in  1876  their  daughter, 
Ella,  became  acquainted  with  Mr.  Edward  C.  Brenan,  to  whom 
she  was  married  on  September  13,  1877.  Mr.  Brenan  has  for 
several  years  been  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in  that 
city  as  representative  of  one  of  the  prominent  Massachusetts 
companies.  He  enjoys  an  enviable  position  in  Masonic  circles. 
They  have  two  children :  a  son,  Charles  Heath,  aged  nineteen, 
and  a  daughter,  Frances  McBeath,  aged  fifteen. 

Address:  Mrs.  Edward  C.  Brenan,  1007  West  Adams  St., 
Chicago,  111. 

Abbie  S.  Russell,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  S.  (Childs) 
Russell,  came  to  the  Oread  from  East  Deering,  Me.,  in  January, 
1878.  She  remained  there  as  a  pupil  until  June  of  the  same 
year,  and  the  next  year,  1878-79,  held  the  position  of  teacher  at 
the  Oread.     She  gave  instruction  in  the  English  branches. 

She  was  born  May  15,  185 1,  at  Pembroke,  Me.  After  leaving 
the  (  )read  she  taught  for  two  years,  from  the  fall  of  1879  to 
the  spring  of  t88i,  the  second  year  holding  the  position  of 
Preceptress  in  Hebron  Academy,  Hebron,  Me.  Since  1881 
she  has  lived  at  home.  From  1883  till  1888  she  was  State 
Secretary  of  the  Woman's  Baptist  Foreign  Missionary  Society 
in  Maine.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Literary  Union 
of  Portland,  and  a  member  of  the  Anne  Hathaway  Club.  Miss 
Russell  still  lives  in  her  early  borne,  but  East  Deering  has  been 
annexed  to  Portland. 

Address:   20  Veranda  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

Marianne  Russell,  daughter  of  William  L.  and  Mary  Ann 
1  Warren  )  Russell,  was  born  at  I'.arre,  Mass.,  March  28,  1850. 
Her  father  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  i8_>(>, 
practiced  medicine  in   I'.arre  and  lived  to  lie  nearly  one  hundred. 

She  attended  the  <  >read  from  1X07  to  [868.  She  was  married 
in  I'.arre.   |nne  21,   [880,  to   |.  ('.   Bartholomew,  a  merchant,  who 


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has  held  the  office  of  Town  Clerk  for  fifteen  years,  and  oi 
Collector  and  Treasurer  for  ten  years.  Mrs.  Bartholomew  has 
been  interested  in  the  Ladies'  Benevolent  Society  (now  the 
Woman's  Alliance)  connected  with  the  Unitarian  Church,  and 
has  been  its  Treasurer  for  twenty-three  years. 
Address:    Mrs.  J.  C.  Bartholomew,  Barre,   Mass. 

H.  Louisa  Sabin,  who  attended  the  Oread  from  September, 
1873.  till  the  spring"  of  1874,  was  born  in  Millbury,  Mass., 
November  23,  1853.  Her  parents  were  George  and  Hannah  T. 
(Waters)  Sabin.  On  the  maternal  side  she  traces  her  ancestry 
to  a  member  of  the  Waters  family  who  came  from  England  in 
1632  and  settled  in  Salem.  Her  mother's  great-grandfather 
settled  in  Millbury  before  1700.  She  was  married  at  Millbury 
to  Rev.  George  A.  Putnam,  on  June  23,  1881,  and  has  as  pastor's 
wife  been  actively  interested  in  church  and  missionary  work. 

Address:    Mrs.  George  A.  Putnam,  Millbury,  Mass. 

Anna  Sargent,  the  daughter  of  Nelson  Sargent  of  Brattle- 
boro,  Yt.,  and  his  wife,  Nancy  Ann  Page  of  Keene,  N.  H., 
was  born  November  6,  1849,  at  Newton,  Mass.  On  her  father's 
side  she  is  descended  from  Digby  Sargent,  an  early  pioneer  of 
Worcester,  Mass. 

She  attended  the  Oread  from  1865  to  1868.  Since  leaving 
school  she  has  lived  a  busy  life.  She  has  been  a  professional 
singer  and  a  teacher  of  music,  as  well  as  for  many  years  an 
actress  in  the  legitimate  drama.  She  now  lives  on  her  farm, 
two  miles  from  Sarcoxie,  Mo.,  to  the  superintending  of  which 
she  wholly  devotes  herself. 

Address :    Sarcoxie,  Mo. 

Ella  F.  and  Lizzie  M.  Sayles  were  daughters  of  Sabin  L. 
and  Deborah  Ann  (Mitchell)  Sayles  of  Killingly,  Conn.,  and 
entered  the  Oread  in  1868.     They  were  pupils  there  until  1873. 

Ella  was  married  in  Killingly,  May  14,  1879,  to  Charles  A. 
Russell,  Yale  1873.  Mr.  Russell  was  prepared  for  college  by 
Harris  R.  Greene.  He  was  for  some  years  engaged  in  editorial 
work,  being  on  the  staff  of  the  Worcester  Press,  and  later  of 
the  Worcester  Spy,  but  in  1879  went  into  business  with  the  hrm 
of  Sabin  L.  Savles  Co.,  manufacturers  of  woolen  °'oods.     He 


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served   in   the   state   legislature   in    1883,   and   in    1885-87   was 
Secretary  of  the  State.     He  was  elected  member  of  Coneress 


for  eight  successive  terms,  and  had  been  nominated  for  a  ninth 
term  at  the  time  of  his  death,  October  23,  1902. 

Mrs.  Russell  has  two  children  :  Sabin  Sayles,  born  October 
23,  1883,  and  Deborah,  born  February  28,  1889,  both  in  Kil- 
linglv.     Sabin  is  in  the  Yale  Law  School. 

Lizzie  was  married  to  William  F.  Bidwell. 

Mrs.  Russell  and  Mrs.  Bidwell  both  live  in  Killingly,  Conn. 

Nellie   M.   Sayles,   daughter  of  Albert  L.  and  Fannie  Jane 


(Warner)    Sayles,  was  born  November  30,    1857,  at  Pascoag, 


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R.  I.  She  was  at  the  Oread  from  1871  to  1874  or  1875.  She 
was  married  at  Pascoag,  R.  I.,  in  October,  1876,  to  William 
A.  Jenks,  a  manufacturer  of  woolen  cloth.  She  is  actively 
interested  in  such  forms  of  educational  and  charitable  work  as 
come  within  her  power  to  help. 

Address:    Mrs.  William  A.  Jenks.  Warren.  Mass. 

Alice  Scott,  who  attended  the  Oread  from  1873  to  1875,  was 
born  in  Worcester,  December  16,  1858.  Her  father,  David 
Scott,  was  by  birth  a  Scotchman.  Her  mother,  who  before  her 
marriage  was  Lucinda  H.  Fay  of  Princeton,  is  a  descendant  of 
John  White  of  England. 

Miss  Scott  has  lived  quietly  at  home  since  leaving  school, 
devoting  herself  entirely  to  the  care  of  her  mother,  with  whom 
she  has  spent  much  time  traveling". 

Address :    1   Schiissler  Road,  Worcester. 

Helen  Browning  Segar,  daughter  of  William  Francis  and 
Mary  Ann  (Browning)  Segar,  was  born  at  Wyoming,  R.  L, 
September  2,  1852.  She  entered  the  Oread  September  2,  1867, 
and  left  in  June,  1868.  She  afterwards  spent  two  and  one- 
half  years  at  East  Greenwich  Academy,  R.  L,  graduating  in 
1871.  May  23,  1878,  she  was  married,  at  Providence,  R.  L,  to 
George  Owen  Lathrop,  Secretary  of  the  Fall  River  Bleachery 
Company.  Her  children  are :  Francis  Owen,  born  October  6, 
1879,  at  Fall  River,  and  Agnes  Segar,  born  June  22,  1884,  also 
at  Fall  River.  Francis  was  graduated  from  Williams  College  in 
the  class  of  1901,  and  Agnes  entered  Wrells  College  in  Sep- 
tember, 1902. 

Address:  Mrs.  George  Owen  Lathrop,  71  Belmont  St.. 
Fall  River,  Mass. 

Harriette  Anna  Shattuck  was  born  in  Peppered ,  Mass.,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1855.  Her  father's  name  was  Samuel  Peppered 
Shattuck,  and  her  mother's  name  before  her  marriage,  Mary 
Lucinda  Shattuck.  Her  father  was  descended  from  the 
vounger  and  her  mother  from  the  elder  branch  of  the  Shattuck 
family.  Harriette's  first  ancestor  on  her  mother's  side  was 
William  Shattuck.  His  son  John  was  an  officer  in  King  Philip's 
Wrar  and  died  in  the  service.      His  son  Tohn,  who  had  moved 


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from  Pepperell  to  Groton,  was  killed  there  by  Indians  in  May, 
1709,  together  with  his  eldest  son.  A  great-aunt  of  Miss 
Shattuck.  Prudence  Wright,  won  fame  for  herself  in  Revolu- 
tionary times  by  acting  as  captain  of  a  company  of  women  who. 
at  Jewett's  Bridge,  captured  a  Tory,  Leonard  Whiting,  and  took 
from  him  papers  which  he  was  carrying  from  Canada  to  the 
British  in  Boston — this  in  the  absence  of  their  husbands  and 
brothers  who  had  gone  with  Colonel  Prescott  to  Lexington  to 
take  part  in  the  memorable  battle  of  the  19th  of  April. 

Samuel  P.  Shattuck,  Harriette's  father,  was  Colonel  of  the 
Fifth  Massachusetts  Regiment  of  State  Militia,  and  in  1861 
represented  his  district  in  the  general  court. 

Harriette  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1872-73.  She  was 
married  in  Pepperell  on  May  9,  1897,  to  Augustus  D.  Phelps, 
Agent  for  the  Massachusetts  Cattle  Bureau.  She  has  no  chil- 
dren of  her  own,  but  has  cared  for  one  adopted  daughter, 
Agnes  Gertrude  Phelps,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  Pepperell 
High  School  and  of  Cushing  Academy  in  Ashburnham,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Phelps  is  a  member  of  the  Prudence  Wright  Chapter 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Address :   Mrs.  Augustus  D.  Phelps,  Pepperell,  Mass. 

Katie  L.  Sheldon  attended  the  Oread  about  1871.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Horace  Sheldon,  a  dry  goods  merchant  of  Wor- 
cester, and  was  married  to  Walter  Spellman  of  Providence. 
She  is  no  longer  living. 

Mary  M.  Sherman,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  September, 
1864,  was  the  daughter  of  William  X.  and  Mary  M.  (Bliss) 
Sherman.  William  N.  Sherman  was  a  prominent  man  in  Green- 
wich, R.  I.  His  father,  Nathaniel  Sherman,  was  descended 
from  the  same  family  as  General  William  T.  Sherman  and 
lion.  John  Sherman,  Secretary  of  State  under  President 
McKinley.  Her  mother  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Thomas 
Bliss,  an  officer  under  Gates  in  the  Northern  Continental  Army 
of  1777,  and  of  Judge  John  Holbrook,  a  man  of  historic  import- 
ance in  Abington,  Conn.,  and,  as  a  member  of  the  famous 
Choate  family,  is  a  descendant  of  royalty. 

Mary  was  born  December  29,  1844,  in  Wickford,  R.  I.  (  )n 
October    30,     1872,    she    was    married,    at    Greenwich,    R.    I., 


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to  John  A.  Mead,  AT. I).,  a  descendant  of  John  I  lowland,  the 
Mayflower  Pilgrim,  whose  family  dates  back  to  William  the 
Conqueror.  Colonel  James  Mead,  one  of  his  paternal  ances- 
tors, was  the  first  white  man  to  settle  in  the  town  of 
Rutland,  Yt.  Dr.  Mead  is  President  of  the  Howe  Scale  Com- 
pany, was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  in  1892,  was  the  first 
Mayor  of  Rutland,  Yt.,  and  has  occupied  the  position  of  Presi- 
dent, Yice-President,  Treasurer,  or 
Director  of  various  important  busi- 
ness, political,  and  educational  in- 
terests of  Rutland. 

They  have  one  daughter,  Mary 
Sherman,  born  at  Rutland,  October 
12.  1878.  She  was  educated  at  the 
Ogontz  School  for  Young  Ladies, 
near  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  at  Anne 
Brown's  School,  Fifth  Ave.,  New 
York.  She  is  a  charter  member  of 
Mercy  Holmes  Mead  Chapter  of 
the  Children  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution, which  is  named  after  her 
ancestress,  also  of  the  Ann  Story  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  and  is  their  Corresponding  Secretary. 
She  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Progressive  Shakesperian 
Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Society  of  Mayflower 
Descendants,  of  the  Yermont  Colonial  Dames,  and  of  The  Fort- 
nightly, a  literary  society  connected  with  her  church.  She  was 
married  June  25,  1902,  to  Carl  Bingham  Hinsman,  Yice- 
President  of  the  Howe  Scale  Company. 

Mrs.  Mead  has  been  President  of  the  Progressive  Shakes- 
perian Club,  President  of  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  to  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  for  seven  years,  and.  for  the  past  six  years.  Treasurer  of 
the  Ladies'  Hospital  Aid  Association.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Society  of  Colonial  Dames,  and  is  Yice-President  of 
the  Y'ermont  Chapter.  She  is  also  an  active  member  of  The 
Fortnightly,  and  has  served  on  its  committees.  She  has  written 
many  club  papers,  a  number  of  which  have  been  published. 

Address:  Mrs.  John  A.  Mead.  The  Homestead,  36  Wash- 
ington St..  Rutland,  Yt. 


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Mary  E.  Shippee  entered  the  Oread  in  1876.  Her  father's 
name  was  Horace  J.  Shippee  and  her  mother's  name  Mary  <  i. 
Wiehtman.     Her  ancestors  were  English  and  settled  in  Rhode 


J^t 

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Island  at  a  very  early  date.     She  was  born  in  Wickford,  R.  I. 
Her  life  since  she  finished  her  school  course  has  been  chiefly 
taken  up  with  domestic  duties.     She  is  active  in  church  work. 
Address:    P.  O.  Box  160,  Wickford,  R.  I. 

Adelia  A.  Smith,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1872  and  1873, 
was  born  in  Brandon,  Yt.,  in  1852,  the  daughter  of  D.  Carlos 
and  Mahala  A.  (Ketcham)  Smith.  Since  leaving  school  she 
has  lived  a  quiet  life  at  her  home  in  West  Brattleboro,  Yt. 

Abbie  Josephine  Smith,  daughter 
of  George  and  Eunice  (Garfield) 
Smith,  was  born  June  30,  1855,  at 
Westminster,  Mass.  She  was  at  the 
Oread  for  three  years,  entering  in 
1 87 1.  After  leaving  the  Oread  she 
was  housekeeper  for  her  father,  as 
her  health  permitted,  until  his  death, 
April  5,  1888.  December  17.  1888, 
she  entered  the  Training  School  for 
Nurses  at  the  City  Hospital  in  Wor- 
cester, graduating  three  years  later. 
She  is  now  a  professional  nurse. 
Address :    715  a  Union  St.,  Seattle,  Wash. 


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Carrie  Wheaton  Smith,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Hannah  E. 
(  Jenckes)  Smith,  was  born  in  North  Grafton,  Mass.,  and  was 
a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1871-72. 

On  her  father's  side  she  is  descended  from  Robert  Smith, 
who  came  to  America  in  1718,  and  settled  in  Palmer.  Mass.,  in 
1728;  also  from  the  White  and  Draper  families,  who  came  from 
Yorkshire.  England,  before  1650.  and  settled  in  Roxbury  and 
Dedham,  Mass.,  both  families  removing  later  to  Spencer,  Mass. 
On  her  mother's  side  she  is  descended  from  Captain  John  Smith 
and  his  wife.  Sarah  Hopkins,  who  was  a  cousin  of  Stephen 
Hopkins,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  The 
Smith  and  Hopkins  families  were  among  the  early  settlers  of 
Rhode  Island,  and  their  descendants  were  early  located  in 
Scituate,  R.  I.  Her  mother  was  also  descended  from  Richard 
Bowen.  an  early  settler  of  Rehoboth.  Mass..  who  came  from 
Wales. 

Among  her  ancestors  were  three  who  took  part  in  the  \\  ar 
of  the  Revolution,  Lieutenant  James  Smith  of  Palmer  and 
Sergeant  William  White  of  Spencer,  who  both  fought  at  the 
battle  of  Lexington,  and  Lieutenant  Jonathan  Smith,  who  fought 
at  Lexington.  Berkeley  Heights.  Brooklyn,  Trenton,  Princeton, 
and  other  historic  places  during  his  three  years'  service. 

Since  leaving  school  Miss  Smith  has  lived  a  quiet  home  life 
in  Xorth  Grafton,  Mass.,  and,  for  the  past  fifteen  years,  in 
Providence.  R.  I. 

Address :    35  Princeton  Ave..  Providence.  R.  I. 

Mary  Etta  Smith,  who  attended  the  Oread  from  1865-68, 
was  the  daughter  of  James  Arnold  and  Harriet  (Lara way) 
Smith.  Her  father  was  of  an  English  family,  prominent  in 
Revolutionary  service,  and  her  mother  was  of  French  Hugue- 
not descent.  She  was  married  at  Boulder,  Colo.,  December 
20,  1883,  to  Frank  Hale  Stickney,  President  of  the  Farmers' 
National  Bank.  Longmont,  Colo. 

Mrs.  Stickney  is  the  author  of  '"Brown  of  Lost  River," 
"The  Old  Silver  Trail."    and  many  short  stories  and  poems. 

Address :    Mrs.  Frank  H.  Stickney,  Longmont,  Colo. 

Belle  Southwick,  daughter  of  Emory  S.  and  Sarah  A.  (  Fitts^ 
Southwick.  was  born  in  Charlton,  Mass..  Mav  20,   1861.     She 


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entered  the  Oread  in  1878,  later  attended  the  State  Normal 
School  in  Rhode  Island  and  taught  in  that  state  till  her  mar- 
riage in  1886,  at  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  to  Leander  E.  D.  Fuller, 
a  stationary  engineer.  Her  only  child,  a  son,  Clarence  Leroy, 
born  in  Taunton  in  1887,  is  now  studying  steam  and  electrical 
engineering. 

Address:    Airs.  Leander  E.   D.   Fuller,   161    West  Britannia 
St.,  Taunton,  Mass. 


Agnes  Isabel  Spencer  was  born  at  East  Haddam,  Conn., 
February  17,  1861.  Her  father,  Roswell  Doane  Spencer,  is  a 
descendant  of  John  Doane,  and  of  Nathaniel  Spencer,  who  with 


his  wife,  Lydia,  emigrated  from  England  about  1777.  Her 
mother,  Mary  Helen  Mather,  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Rev. 
Richard  Mather  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  her  maternal  grand- 
mother a  lineal  descendant  of  Reginald  Foster  of  Ipswich,  Mass., 
and  of  Captain  Miles  Standish. 

Agnes  was  at  the  Oread  from  January,  1877,  ^  June,  1879. 
On  June  14,  1899,  she  was  married  at  Thompsonville,  Conn., 
to  James  Hope  Bissland,  an  electro-plater.  Their  only  son, 
James  Flope  Bissland,  Jr.,  was  born  July  25.  1901,  at  West- 
held,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Bissland  has  been  associated  with  the  work  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U. 

Address:  Mrs.  James  il.  Bissland,  183  Main  St.,  West- 
field,  Mass. 


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Josephine  Chase  Spinney,  nee  Chase,  was  the  daughter  of 
Hezekiah  and  Dolly  Sargent  (Gardner)  Chase,  and  was  horn 
August  28,  1847.  in  Danbury,  X.  H.  Her  ancestry  makes 
her  eligible  to  the  Xational  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

She  attended  the  Oread  during  the  year  1874-75,  having 
been  married  before  that,  on  July  11.  1872,  at  Charlestown. 
Mass.,  to  Rev.  E.  C.  Spinney.  As  Mr.  Spinney  desired  to  do 
further  work  in  theology,  he  returned  in  1874  to  the  Newton 
Theological  Seminary,  where  he  had  formerly  studied  for  one 
year,  while  Mrs.  Spinney  took  up 
special  work  during  the  interval  at 
the  Oread,  and  in  Boston.  After 
this  Mr.  Spinney  was  pastor  at  the 
Pleasant  Street  Baptist  Church  in 
Concord.  X.  H.,  until  his  health 
failed,  and  he  was  compelled  to  seek 
a  western  climate.  His  next  pastor- 
ate was  at  the  First  Baptist  Church 
in  Burlington,  Iowa.  He  was  after- 
wards President  of  the  Institute 
there,  and  Mrs.  Spinney  was  the 
Preceptress.  Mr.  Spinney's  health 
again  failing,  he  went  South,  and  remained  there  two  years,  but 
not  fully  recovering  was  compelled  to  give  up  the  ministry. 
He  is  at  present  President  of  the  Bankers'  Union  of  the  World 
Insurance  Company. 

They  have  two  daughters:  Maude  Josephine,  born  in  Con- 
cord, X.  H..  July  2.  1877.  is  a  skilled  musician,  having  grad- 
uated from  two  conservatories,  and  is  also  a  graduate  of  the 
State  University  at  Lincoln.  Neb. ;  Blanche  Gardner,  born  June 
11,  1882.  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  is  now  studying  at  Leland  Stan- 
ford University  in  California.  IUanche  has  contributed  articles 
for  magazines  and  periodicals. 

Besides  teaching  at  the  Burlington  Collegiate  Institute,  Mrs. 
Spinney  also  gave  instruction  for  a  time  at  Central  University. 
Pella.  Iowa. 

She  has  been  interested  in  charitable  work  of  all  kinds  in 
church,  club  and  city,  has  been  President  of  the  Woman's 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  State  of  Iowa,  a  member  of 


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the  Board  for  the  (  )ld  Ladies'  Home,  and  belongs  to  the 
Woman's  Club  of  Des  Moines,  and  to  the  Chauncey  Depew 
Club.     She  has  been  President  of  the  P.   E.  O.   Fraternity. 

Manv  papers  which  she  has  written  for  club  work  have  been 
published,  and  she  is  at  present  editor  of  an  insurance  journal, 
The  Bankers'  Union  Herald. 

Address:  Mrs.  E.  C.  Spinney,  1427  Tenth  St.,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa. 


Josephine  Elizabeth  Sprague,  who  attended  the  Oread  in 
1868-69,  was  the  daughter  of  Augustus  J^own  Reed  and  Eliza- 
beth Janes    (Rice)    Sprague.      Her   father  served  in  the  Civil 


War  as  Captain,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Colonel  in  the  Fifty- 
first  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  and  at  the  close  of 
the  war  was  breveted  Brigadier-General.  He  has  been  United 
States  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue,  Sheriff  of  Worcester 
County,  and  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Worcester.  He  is  now 
President  of  the  Worcester  Mechanics  Savings  Bank,  and 
President  of  the  Worcester  Electric  Light  Company.  Gen- 
eral Sprague  is  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  of  John 
Alden  and  Priscilla  Mullins,  and  Constance  Hopkins,  May- 
flower Pilgrims;  also  of  William  Sprague  of  England,  who 
came  over  with  John  Endicott  in  1628. 

Miss  Spragne  was  born  in  Worcester,  December  19,  185 1. 
She  was  married  in  Worcester,  (  )ctober  16,  1872,  to  Edward 
H.  Knowlton.  Their  only  child,  Howard  Sprague,  born  March 
4.  1878,  was  graduated  as  Electrical  Engineer  at  the  Worcester 


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Polytechnic    Institute   in    1898,   and    was   married   October    17, 
1901,  to  Alice  Frances  Conant. 

Mrs.  Knowlton  died  in  Worcester,  December  7,  1879. 


Annie   Elizabeth   Sprout   was  a 

pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1874.  She 
was  married  in  1884  to  Walter  A. 
Sweet  of  Worcester,  and  had  one 
son,  Robert  Bradford  Sweet,  who 
died  in  May,  1885.  Mrs.  Sweet 
died  in  December.  1886. 


Hattie  L.  Stearns,  daughter  of  Timothy  L.  Stearns  of  Fram- 
ing-ham, Mass..  and  his  wife.  Eliza  Howe  of  Worcester,  was 
born  in  Barre,  Mass..  April  8.  1856.  She  was  at  the  Oread 
parts  of  the  years  1872-74.  ill  health  making-  continuous  study 
impossible.     Since  leaving  school  she  has  lived  quietly  at  home. 

Address:    i=;  Charlotte  St.,  Worcester.  Mass. 


Helen  B.  Steele  was  born  in  Brooklvn.  X.  Y..  and  was  the 


daughter  of  Michael  McClary  and  Catherine  (Burden)  Steele. 
She  is  a  direct  descendant  of  General  McClary,  who  fell  at  the 
battle  of  Bunker  Hill.     She  was  at  the  Oread  in  1878-79.     In 


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1885,  at  Epsom.  N.  H.,  she  was  married  to  Dr.  B.  Parker 
Barstow,  a  physician,  and  her  home  is  now  in  Kingston.  They 
have  two  children:  Katharine  S.,  horn  May  31.  1886,  and  Ben- 
jamin, born  May  4.  1887,  both  at  Kingston. 

Address :    Mrs.  B.  Parker  Barstow,  Kingston,  Mass. 

Isabelle  C.  Stratton.  daughter  of  Charles  T.  and  Jane  M. 
(Griffin)  Stratton,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Angnst  21,  1855. 
Her  mother  was  daughter  of  Charles  Griffin,  editor  of  the 
Argus,  which  was  the  first,  or  one  of  the  first,  papers  in  Wor- 
cester. Isabelle  was  at  the  Oread  (hiring  the  years  1870-72. 
She  was  married  in  Worcester,  October  19,  1874,  to  John  P.  K. 
(  His,  President  and  Manager  of  the  Union  Water  Meter  Com- 
pany. They  had  five  children,  all  born  in  Worcester:  Albert 
S.,  born  November  23,  1875  ;  Emma  H.,  born  January  30,  1880  ; 
Edward  K.,  born  October  6,  1884;  Donald  K.,  born  May  24, 
1893;  and  Mary  E.,  born  October  14,  1895.  They  were  all 
educated  in  the  public  schools.  Emma  graduated  from  Smith 
College  in  the  class  of  1902.     Mr.  Otis  died  December  31,  1904. 

Mrs.  Otis  is  a  member  of  the  Worcester  Woman's  Club  and 
the  Hall  Child  Study  Club. 

Address :    Mrs.  Isabelle  C.  Otis,  26  Downing  St.,  Worcester. 

Ellie  Josephine  Sumner  was  born  in  Worcester,  March  9, 
1854,  the  daughter  of  William  and  Marion  Josephine  (Howard) 
Sumner.     Her  mother  was  an  ( )read  teacher  for  many  years. 

Since  leaving  school  Ellie  has  devoted  much  time  to  studying 
and  teaching  music,  and  has  been  soprano  soloist  in  churches 
in  Springfield  and  Brookline,  Mass.,  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  and 
in  Ihiffalo,  N.  Y.  In  Worcester,  November  10,  1881,  she  was 
married  to  Erederick  J.  Shepard,  Yale  1873.  Mr.  Shepard  was 
for  twenty-four  years  engaged  in  editorial  work  on  the  staff  of 
the  Worcester  Press,  the  Indianapolis  Sentinel,  the  Hartford 
Couraiit,  the  New  York  World,  and  the  Buffalo  Courier.  He 
is  now    Reference  Librarian   of  the    Buffalo   Public   Library. 

Address:  Mrs.  Frederick  J.  Shepard.  17  Pearl  Place.  Buf- 
falo, \.  Y. 

Mary  Symons  attended  the  <  >read  in  [869-70,  entering  from 
Rochdale,  Mass.  On  September  25,  1871,  she  was  married  to 
Thomas  S.  Livermore,  and  died  August  9,   1896. 


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Jennie  Goulding  Taft  attended  the  <  )read  one  year,  entering 
in  the  fall  of  1874.  She  is  the  eldest  of  six  children,  and  was 
born  in  Blackstone,   Mass.,  October   12,   1856.      Her   father  is 

Daniel  Waldo  Taft.  son  of  Orsinus 
Taft,  and  grandson  of  Jacob  Taft, 
Jr.,  who  received  honorable  mention 
several  times  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  The  first  Taft,  Robert, 
came  to  this  country  from  England 
in  1680,  and  settled  in  Mendon,  Mass. 
He  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter. 
who  are  the  ancestors  of  the  numer- 
ous Tafts  in  Mendon,  Uxbridge  and 
other  parts  of  the  United  States. 
Mr.  Daniel  Taft  was  born  in  Ux- 
bridge, where  he  has  lived  most  of 
his  life,  and  continuously  since  1863.  He  is  a  retired  woolen 
manufacturer.  He  has  held  many  important  offices  in  the 
town,  and  served  one  year  as  a  Representative  from  southern 
Worcester  County. 

Jennie's  mother  was  Henrietta  Maria  Goulding,  born  in  Wor- 
cester, and  daughter  of  Eli  and  Martha  (Alexander)  Goulding. 
Jennie  Taft  was  married  at  her  father's  home  in  Uxbridge, 
November  3.  1880,  to  Henry  Wheelock,  a  native  of  Uxbridge, 
but  at  that  time  residing  in  Putnam, 
Conn.,  where  he  was  superintendent 
of  a  woolen  mill.  He  was  the  son  of 
Silas  M.  and  Irene  (  Taft )  Wheelock. 
natives  of  Uxbridge,  and  graduated 
from  the  Worcester  Polytechnic 
Institute  in  the  class  of  1877.  After 
one  short  year  of  married  life,  he 
was  taken  ill  with  quick  consumption 
and  returned  to  his  father's  house 
in  Uxbridge,  where  he  died  No- 
vember 13.  1881.  Henry  Wheelock 
was  a  young  man  of  sterling  quali- 
ties, smart,  bright,  active,  and  always  cheerful, 
of  friends  to  mourn  his  untimely  death. 

After  her  husband's  death.  Mrs.  Wheelock  returned  to  her 
father's  home,  where  she  has  since  resided. 


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After  leaving  the  Oread  she  spent  one  year  at  a  school  on 
Lincoln  street,  Worcester,  opened  by  Madame  Fitch,  former 
teacher  at  the  Oread.  Here  she  studied  French,  German  and 
painting.  After  leaving  this  school  she  continued  her  lessons 
in  painting  with  artists  in  Providence,  Boston  and  New  York, 
and  for  the  last  ten  years  has  made  china  decoration  her  busi- 
ness, devoting  most  of  her  time  to  it.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Providence  Keramic  Club  of  Providence,  R.  I. 

Mrs.  Wheelock  is  a  very  enthusiastic  traveler  and  has  visited 
many  interesting  countries.  She  has  made  two  trips  to  Cali- 
fornia, one  in  1890  and  one  in  1902.  During  the  first  trip  she 
very  unexpectedly  met  her  old  schoolmate,  Florence  Whiting, 
and  they  spent  many  enjoyable  weeks  together.  During  the 
winter  of  1892  and  also  in  1893,  she  went  through  the  South  and 
to  Cuba,  which  was  then  a  Spanish  country.  In  1896  she  went 
by  the  way  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  to  Alaska,  and  returned 
through  the  Yellowstone  National  Park.  In  1898  she  spent 
four  months  in  Europe,  going  by  the  way  of  Gibraltar  and  the 
Mediterranean,  through  Italy,  Switzerland,  Germany,  Holland, 
France,  England  and  Scotland. 

She  is  an  active  worker  in  the  Unitarian  Church,  and  has 
held  the  office  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Ladies'  Asso- 
ciation for  nine  years. 

She  has  never  written  for  publication,  but  has  several  times 
read  papers  on  the  countries  she  has  visited. 

Address :    Mrs.  Jennie  G.  Wheelock,  Uxbridge,  Mass. 


Josie  M.  Taft,  daughter  of  Samuel  N.  and  Betsey  E. 
(Northam)  Taft,  was  born  in  Northbridge,  Mass.,  March  10, 
1852.  She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1868,  remaining 
three  years.  November  14,  1878,  she  was  married  to  George 
W.  Hunt,  an  iron  and  steel  merchant,  whose  office  is  at  413 
Atlantic  Ave.,  Boston,  Mass.  Mrs.  Hunt  has  one  daughter : 
Louise  C,  born  August  29,  1879,  at  Roxbury,  Mass.  She  is 
a  graduate  of  Boston  University.  Mrs.  Hunt  has  been  inter- 
ested in  church  and  Sunday  School  work,  having  been  the 
teacher  of  one  Sunday  School  class  for  ten  years. 

Address:  Mrs.  George  W.  Hunt,  14  Woodbine  St.,  Roxbury. 
Mass. 


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Ella  M.  Tapley,  who  was  a  day  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1877- 
78,  her  home  being-  in  Worcester,  is  now  living  at  110  Austin 
St.,  in  that  city. 


Anna  C.  Thayer  attended  the 
Oread  in  the  year  1869-70.  She 
was  one  of  the  five  daughters  of  Eli 
Thayer,  founder  of  the  Oread.  Her 
mother's  maiden  name  was  Caroline 
M.  Capron. 

Miss  Thayer  has  always  lived  in 
Worcester,  her  present  address  being 
10  Hawthorne  St. 


Clara  Louisa  Thayer,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1! 
was  born  in  West  Medway,  Mass.,  January  30,  1862.  Her 
father  was  Addison  P.  Thayer,  and 
her  mother  Lydia  San  ford  Partridge. 
Her  great-great-grandfather  was  a 
chaplain  in  the  Revolutionary  Army. 
After  leaving  the  Oread  she  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Yale  Art  School  for  five 
years,  and  was  married  at  Hatfield, 
Mass.,  on  September  28,  1892,  to 
Allan  Maxcy  Hiller,  an  attorney  at 
law  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  who  re- 
ceived the  degrees  of  M.A.  and  LL.B. 
from  Yale  University.  Mr.  Hiller  is 
a  Director  of  the  Free  Public  Library 
and  has  held  a  number  of  official  posi- 
tions in  the  Xew  Haven  municipal  government.  They  have 
three  daughters:  Helen  Thayer,  born  September  26,  1893; 
Constance  Lane,  born  June  19,  1895  ;  and  Celia  Farnam,  born 
August  13,  1900. 

Address:     Mrs.    A.    Maxcy    Hiller,    433    Temple    St.,    New 
Haven,  Conn. 


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Cora  P.  Thayer,  daughter  of  Hon.  Eli  Thayer,  founder  of 
the   Oread,   and   his   wife,   Caroline   M.   Capron,    was   horn    at 


Oread  Castle,  Worcester.     She  studied  in  the  Collegiate  depart- 
ment of  the  school  from  1871  to  1874. 

Address:    10  Hawthorne  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Eva  Alden  Thayer,  daughter  of  Eli  Thayer,  the  founder  of 
our  school,  was  born  at  Oread  Castle  December  2,  1850.     Her 


father  was  a  direct  descendant  of  John  Alden,  of  Mayflower 
fame,  for  whom  she  is  named.  Her  mother,  who  was  Caroline 
M.  Capron,  is  descended  from  a  brother  of  Israel  Putnam. 

She  attended  the  Oread  from  the  autumn  of  1865  till  the  spring 
of  [868.  The  (  head  was  her  home  till  it  was  sold  in  1898,  since 
which  time  she  has  lived  at  10  Hawthorne  St.,  Worcester. 


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Nellie  Olive  Thayer,  daughter  of  Edward  1).  and  Ellen  M. 
(Darling")  Thayer,  was  bom  in  Boston  April  10.  [861.  On 
both  sides  she  traces  her  ancestry  to  early  settlers  of  Mendon. 
Mass. 

Sbe  entered  the  (  )read  in  the  fall  of  1871  and  left  in  the 
spring-  of  1872.  Sbe  was  married  in  Worcester,  January  21. 
1886,  to  Samuel  H.  Clary,  treasurer  of  the  Worcester  Safe 
Deposit  and  Trust  Company.  They  have  two  children  :  Ernest 
Thayer,  born  March  1.  1887;  and  Eleanor,  born  August  2. 
1892. 

Address:  Mrs.  Samuel  H.  Clary.  36  Sevef  St..  Worcester. 
Mass. 

Alice  S.  Todd  was  born  at  Lowell.  Mass.,  July  23.  1853.  and 
was  the  daughter  of  Jehiel  and  Susan  E.  (  Whitman  )  Todd.  She 
entered  the  Oread  in  1869  and  remained  until  1870.     (  )n  March 


30,  1876  sbe  was  married  in  Worcester  to  Mr.  Charles  Warren 
Gilbert,  who  for  thirty  years  was  the  proprietor  of  the  Gilbert 
Loom  Works.  Later  be  sold  bis  business  to  the  Crompton  and 
Knowles  Loom  Works  Company  and  entered  the  employ  of 
that  firm.  A  son  and  a  daugbter  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Gilbert.  Louis  Douglas,  born  September  5,  1878,  in 
Worcester,  was  graduated  from  the  English  High  School  of 
Worcester  and  also  from  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute. 
He  is  now  phosphate  chemist  with  the  Davis  Baking  Powder 
Company,  Hoboken.  X.  J.     Their  second  child.  Ruth  Alice,  was 


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born  April  27,  1886,  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  graduated  from 
the  Classical  High  School  in  Worcester  in  1903.  She  is  study- 
ing music. 

Mrs.  Gilbert  is  a  Daughter  of  the  American  Revolution,  and 
belongs  to  the  Woman's  Club  and  the  Friday  Morning  Club. 

Address :  Mrs.  Charles  Warren  Gilbert.  14  Trowbridge  Road, 
Worcester. 

Minnie  J.  Todd  was  born  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  December 
t<),  18^0.     She  was  the  daughter  of  Jehiel  and  Susan  E.  (Whit- 


man)  Todd,  and  on  May  17,   1877,  was  married  to  Joseph  A. 
Long  at  Worcester.     She  died  April   19,  1901. 

Mary  Lusannah  Tolman  entered  the  Oread  in  September, 
1866,  and  left  in  June,  1867.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Albert 
and  Lusannah  Russell  (Whitin)  Tolman.  Her  father  was  a 
native  of  Lincoln  and  his  maternal  and  paternal  grandfathers 
were  in  the  field  at  the  battles  of  Concord  and  Lexington.  Her 
mother  was  born  on  Bunker  Hill.  Mary  was  born  in  1847  a^ 
Worcester.  She  was  married  October  18,  1882.  in  Worcester. 
to  Benjamin  X.  Bradt  of  Boston,  an  orange  grower.  Mr. 
Bradt  was  a  Civil  War  veteran.      He  died  January  4,  1905. 

She  was  engaged  in  various  charitable  interests  while  in 
Worcester,  and  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Sunshine 
Society. 

Mrs.  Bradt  is  the  Florida  State  Organizer  of  the  Inter- 
national Sunshine  Society,  and  a  promoter  of  the  interests  of  the 


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Florida  Audubon  Society.  She  also  edits  a  column  devoted  to 
International  Sunshine  Society  interests  in  the  Florida  Agri- 
culturist, and  writes  fugitive  verses,  signed    "Lusannah." 

Address:    Mrs.  Mary  L.   Bradt,  324  East  Church  St.,  Jack- 
sonville, Fla. 


Libbie  B.  Tuller,  daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Frances 
(Hayden)  Tuller,  was  born  at  Winsted,  Conn.,  October  2, 
1856.  On  her  father's  side  her  earliest  ancestor  in  this  coun- 
try was  John  Tuller  of  Hartford  and 
Simsbury,  Conn.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  King  Philip's  War.  Her  great- 
grandfather, Elisha  Tuller,  served  in 
the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

When  Libbie  was  only  one  vear  old 
her  parents  left  Y\  uisted  to  make 
their  home  in  Atlanta,  Ga.  After 
the  Civil  War  broke  out  Mr.  Tuller, 
who  was  a  Union  sympathizer,  was 
compelled  to  leave  Atlanta.  He  es- 
caped through  the  Confederate  lines 
and  reached  Hartford  in  safety. 
Mrs.  Tuller  and  Libbie  were  forced  to  remain  in  Atlanta,  and 
suffered  severe  hardships  when  the  city  was  besieged  by  Sher- 
man. The  family  was  compelled  to 
live  in  a  room  excavated  below  the 
cellar  bottom  lined  with  matting, 
furnished  with  cots,  and  the  en- 
trance protected  with  bales  of  cot- 
ton— all  this  to  escape  the  flying 
shells  which  were  continually  burst- 
ing in  the  city.  In  the  bombard- 
ment the  house  (see  illustration) 
was  struck,  but  no  one  was  injured. 
When  Sherman  on  his  victorious 
march  to  the  sea  was  passing 
through  the  city,  Mrs.  Tuller  met 
a    Union    soldier    whom    she    had 

known  in  the  Xorth  and  he.  being  a  Free  Mason,  was  able  to 
set  her  through  the  lines  so  that  she  and  her  daughter  were 


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able   to  make   their   escape  and    join    Mr.   Tuller   in    Hartford. 

After  the  war  was  over  the  family  returned  to  Atlanta,  from 
which  city  Libbie  was  sent  North  to  school  in  her  eleventh 
year.  Later  she  came  to  the  Oread,  where  she  remained  one 
year — from  [873  to  1874.  It  was  at  one  of  the  (  >read  soirees 
that  Libbie  met  Deacon  Kendall  and  his  family,  <>ne  of  the  mem- 


bers of  which  she  afterwards  married.  After  leaving  the  Oread 
she  returned  to  her  home  in  Atlanta,  where  she  lived  until 
her  marriage  November  1.  1892.  to  George  E.  Kendall  of 
Hartford,  Conn.  Mr.  Kendall  is  Manager  of  the  National 
Insurance  Company  of  Ireland. 

They  have  had  two  children.  Her  first  son,  Frank,  died  in 
infancy.     Her  second  son,  Edward,  was  born  March  8,  1895. 

Address :  Mrs.  George  E.  Kendall,  64  Cone  St.,  Hartford, 
Conn. 

Mary  A.  Tyler,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  spring 
of  1867,  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  John  and  Adaline  (Coy) 
Tyler,  both  of  early  Massachusetts  stock,  and  was  born 
November  3,   1843,  at  Warren,  Mass. 

Mary  has  been  a  teacher,  and  has  traveled  and  studied  in 
Europe.  She  has  been  a  government  clerk  in  Washington. 
D.  C,  and  assisted  in  compiling  the  Standard  Dictionary,  her 
task  being  to  furnish  quotations  illustrating  the  meaning  of 
words.  She  has  taken  diplomas  in  French  and  (  ierman  at  the 
Columbian  I  niversity  in  Washington. 

Address:    Ti2n  Twelfth  St.,  N.  W..  Washington,  D.  C. 


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Ellen  Walker,  daughter  of  Hon.  J.  H.  Walker  and  his  wife, 
Sarah  Ellen  Harrington,  was  horn  in  Worcester,  October  26, 
1857.     Her  parents  were  of  English  ancestry. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  1871  and  left  in  1872.  She  was 
married  June  6,  1878.  in  Worcester,  to  Milton  Shirk,  a  banker, 
and  has  two  children:  Elbert  Walker,  born  November  [9, 
1879,  in  Pern,  Ind. ;  and  Joseph  Henry,  born  January  6,  1881, 
in  Pern.  Both  were  educated  in  the  Peru  schools,  Worcester 
Academy  and  Harvard  College. 

Mrs.  Shirk  has  been  engaged  in  city  and  church  benevolences 
and  Baptist  State  work. 

Address:    Mrs.   Milton  Shirk,  Peru.  Ind. 

Elmira  Warren,  who  attended  the  Oread  from  September 
to  December,  1867.  was  the  daughter  of  Elbridge  G.  and  Lydia 

E.  (Stone)  Warren,  and  was  born  March  13,  1850,  at  Auburn, 
Mass. 

Elmira   was   married   at   Auburn,   June    15,    1871,   to   Edwin 

F.  Ryder,  a  mechanic,  who  died  May  it;,  1882.  One  child, 
Gertrude  Elvira  Ryder,  a  graduate  of  the  Worcester  Normal 
School  in  the  class  of  1895,  is  now  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools  of  Worcester. 

Mrs.  Ryder  has  compiled  a  Cook  Book  for  Nurses.  For  the 
past  twelve  years  she  has  occupied  the  position  of  Matron  in 
the  City  Hospital  at  Worcester. 

Address:    Mrs.  Elmira  W.  Ryder.  City  Hospital.  Worcester. 

Lydia  A.  Warren,  who  entered  the  ( )read  in  1867  and 
attended  one  year,  was  the  daughter  of  Elbridge  G.  and  Lydia 
E.  (Stone)  Warren,  and  was  born  at  West  Auburn,  Mass.. 
March  9.  1848.  She  was  graduated  from  the  Worcester  City 
Hospital  Training  School  for  Nurses  in  1890,  and  worked  at 
her  profession  as  long  as  her  health  would  permit. 

Address:   West  Auburn,  Mass. 

Mary  G.  Warren,  daughter  of  Dexter  and  Charlotte  A. 
(Green)  Warren,  was  born  at  Westmoreland,  X.  H..  September 
[3,   '846. 

She  attended  the  Oread  in  1866-67.  and  after  leaving  in 
1867  lived  at  home  until  her  death.  July  21,   1891. 


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Frances  A.  Waters,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  1867  and  left 
in  1870,  was  the  daughter  of  J.  L.  and  Anne  (Smith)  Waters. 
Her    father    was   a   descendant   of   the    French    family    of   De 

Wolfe,  and  her  mother  a  daughter 
of  Benoni  Smith,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier.  She  was  born  May  12, 
1 85 1,  at  Worcester.  She  attended 
Wheaton  Seminary,  Norton,  Mass., 
from  the  autumn  of  1870  to  the 
spring  of  1871,  became  a  member 
of  the  Main  Street  Baptist  Church 
in  Worcester  in  July,  T871,  and  re- 
moved to  Washington,  D.  C,  in 
May,  1872.  She  was  married  in 
Washington,  December  17,  1877, 
to  Henry  Calver,  LL.M.,  a  patent 
lawyer.  Mrs.  Calver  has  one  child, 
Arthur  W.,  born  in  Washington,  February  27,  1879.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  Friends  School,  Washington,  D.  C,  in 
1897,  and  from  Columbian  University  in  1901,  with  the  degree 
of  B.S.  He  is  now  an  examiner  in  the  United  States  Patent 
( )ffice. 

Mrs.  Calver  is  a  member  of  the  Nordhoff  Guild,  connected 
with  the  Homeopathic  Hospital,  and  was  a  teacher  in  an  indus- 
trial school  for  several  years. 

Address:  Mrs.  Henry  Calver,  1721  P  St.,  X.  W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 


Julia  M.  Wells,  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Julia  A. 
(Wicker)  Wells,  was  born  in  Bellows  Falls,  Vt.,  January  27, 
1850.  One  of  her  mother's  ancestors  came  to  this  country  in 
the  Mayflower.  Julia  entered  the  Oread  in  1866  and  left  in 
1868.  May  1,  1879,  she  was  married  to  Oliver  A.  Benoit  at 
Walpole,  N.  H.     Mr.   Benoit  is  a  last  manufacturer. 

Address:  Mrs.  Oliver  A.  Benoit,  10  Auburn  St.,  Worcester, 
Mass. 


Julia  A.  Weston,  daughter  of  Orrin  11.  and  Antoinette  J. 
(Baker)  Weston,  was  bom  in  Onwell,  X.  V.  Her  father's 
ancestors  came  to  this  country   from    England   soon  after  the 


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landing  of  the  Pilgrims.  Her  mother's  grandfather  fought 
with  the  patriots  and  was  killed  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

She  entered  the  Oread  in  September,  1865,  and  left  in 
February,  1867.  November  I,  1876,  she  was  married  to  Andrew- 
Hair,  a  contracting  plumber  and  steam-fitter.  They  have  four 
children  :  Antoinette  E.,  born  in  Worcester,  October  25,  1877, 
took  a  course  in  stenography  and  typewriting  at  a  business 
college;  Arthur  W.,  born  in  Worcester  August  1,  1881,  spent 
four  years  at  college,  after  which  he  accepted  a  position  as  civil 
engineer,  and  is  now  with  the  Rapid  Transit  Construction  Com- 
pany of  New  York  City  ;  Florence  M.,  born  in  Worcester  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1883,  graduated  from  the  English  High  School  in 
Worcester;  Bessie  B.,  born  in  Worcester  September  14,  1885, 
entered  the  Worcester  High  School,  but  on  account  of  ill  health 
was  unable  to  finish. 

Address:  Mrs.  Andrew  Hair,  13  Harrington  Ave.,  Worcester, 
Mass. 


Marietta  Wheeler,  daughter  of  Albert  and  Mary  Esther 
(Dame)  Wheeler,  was  born  at  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  was  a  pupil 
at  the  Oread  in  1870.  Her  great-grandfather,  Phinehas 
Wheeler,  was  at  the  battles  of  Lexington  and  Concord  in  1775, 
and  was  also  present  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne  in  1777. 
Her  grandfather,  Artemas  Wheeler,  was  the  inventor  of  a 
seven-shooter,  which  was  fired  with  a  Mint  lock. 

Address:    722  Merrimac  St.,  Lowell,  Mass. 


Alice  A.  Wheelock,  daughter  of  Silas  M.  and 
Wheelock,  was  born  in  Uxbridge, 
Mass.,  January  22,  1849.  She  at- 
tended the  Oread  in  1866  and  1867. 
She  was  married  in  1874  to  Rev. 
Henry  R.  Smith,  pastor  of  the  Uni- 
tarian Church,  Barre,  Mass.,  and 
had  two  children:  Rolfe  Wheelock, 
born  in  Leominster,  January  9, 
1879.  and  Leon  Hills,  born  in  Leo- 
minster, October  13.  1881.  Rolfe 
was  graduated  from  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1 901.  Leon  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technoloerv. 


Irene  (Taft) 


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Wherever  Mrs.  Smith  lived  she  was  very  active  in  church 
work,  and  a  leader  in  carrying  on  philanthropic  projects.  She 
died  in   (Jxbridge,   Mass.,  September  6,   1891. 

Florence  M.  Whidden  was  born  in  Calais,  Maine,  and  was 
one  of  eleven  children,  ten  of  whom  are  still  living.  Miss 
\\  hidden  went  to  Worcester  in  1873  to  visit  her  sister,  and  at 
that  time  attended  the  Oread. 

While  in   Worcester  she  met   C  'harles  G.   Stowell,  to  whom 


she  was  married  the  following  year.  Three  children  were  born 
to  them,  of  whom  two  are  still  living. 

After-  Mr.  Stowell's  death  Mrs.  Stowell  supported  herself 
and  sons.  For  five  years  she  was  superintendent  of  the  Young 
Women's  Christian  Association  of  Worcester.  Seven  years  ago 
she  went  to  New  York  and  entered  the  employ  of  one  of  the 
largest  business  firms  in  the  city. 

Mrs.  Stowell  has  always  been  active  in  church  work,  and  at 
the  present  time  is  a  director  of  the  Xew  York  State  Young- 
Women's  Christian  Association,  also  President  of  the  Looking 
Forward  Club,  an  organization  composed  of  hundreds  of  busi- 
ness women. 

Address:     \\  anamaker's,   Xew   York   City. 


Florence  R.  Whiting  attended  the  <  Iread  from  September, 
1874,  until  June,  1875.  She  was  born  in  North  Attleboro, 
Mass.,  April  23,  1857.      Her  father's  name  was  William   Deane 


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Whiting  and  her  mother's  Rebecca  Damon  Butterfield.  Flor- 
ence was  married  to  Dr.  J.  15.  Gerould  of  North  Attleboro  on 
April  23,  1896. 

She  has  always  been  interested  in  church  work,  and  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Ladies'  Social  in  the  Grace  Episcopal  Church.  She 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Club  of  North  Attleboro. 
During'  the  winter  of  1890  she  visited  the  Pacific  coast  with 
her  brother,  traveling  through  California  and  other  places  of 
interest. 

She  has  no  children  of  her  own.  but  cares  for  a  daughter  of 
her  husband  by  a  former  marriage. 

Address:  Mrs.  J.  B.  Gerould.  34  High  St.,  North  Attleboro, 
Mass. 

Annie  Elizabeth  Willard,  daughter  of  William  and  Charlotte 
(Dean)  Willard,  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  August  11. 
1850.     Her  father  was  an  eminent  painter  of  portraits,  among 


his  paintings  being  likenesses  of  Senator  Hoar,  Daniel  Webster, 
Rufus  Choate  and  other  prominent  men.  Until  his  death  in 
1904  he  continued  his  work,  and  was  vigorous  in  body  and 
intellect  and  had  lost  little  of  his  earlier  skill,  until  shortly  before 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  his  eighty-sixth  year.  Charlotte 
Dean,  Annie's  mother,  was  born  in  Birmingham,  England.  She 
lived  to  the  age  of  seventy-five. 

Annie   entered   the   Oread   in    1867   and   remained   one   year. 
After  leaving:  school  she  devoted  her  time  to  the  care  of  her 


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aged  grandmother  until  the  death  of  the  latter  at  the  age  of 
ninety-five.  She  then  took  a  position  in  Barnard  &  Sumner's 
in  Worcester,  where  she  remained  for  two  years. 

She  was  afterwards  married  to  Edmund  G.  Bryden  and  has 
had  three  children :  Annie  Lilias,  born  in  Springfield,  Mass., 
December  19,  1878;  Willard  Henry,  born  in  Bradford,  Mass., 
August  20,  1881  ;  and  Mabel,  born  January  7,  1887,  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  who  died  in  April,   1888. 

Address:  Mrs.  Annie  E.  Bryden,  21  Perkins  St.,  Charlestown, 
Mass. 

Frances  Elizabeth  Williams  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  from 
1864  to  1865.  Her  father  was  George  Henry  Williams  and  her 
mother  Frances  Elizabeth  Simes.  She  was  born  in  North- 
boro,  Mass.,  January  6,  1847,  and  died  at  Northboro  August  18, 
1869. 

Lulu  and  Fannie  Williams,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1873, 
were  nieces  of  Miss  Ava  Williams,  Preceptress  of  the  Oread 
from  1 87 1  to  1873. 

Lulu  was  married  to  Mr.  Harry  Pitman,  who  was  in  the  lum- 
ber business  in  the  state  of  Washington.  Mr.  Pitman  died 
some  years  ago,  leaving  Lulu  with  three  children. 

Fannie  was  married  to  Mr.  Alexander  Johnston,  and  lived 
in  the  West.  She  died  very  suddenly  several  years  ago,  leaving 
three  children. 

Mary  J.  Willis  entered  the  Oread  in  January,  1865,  and  left 
in  June,  1866.  She  was  the  daughter  of  William  W.  and  Jane 
(Gale)  Willis,  of  English  parentage,  and  was  born  September 
24,  1 84 1,  in  Winchester,  N.  H.  Since  leaving  the  Oread  she 
has  been  engaged  in  teaching  almost  continuously  in  normal, 
select,  and  graded  public  schools.  She  is  active  in  Sunday 
School  work,  having  been  superintendent  for  twelve  years,  and 
has  written  various  essays  and  papers  for  educational  and  Sun- 
day School  conventions  and  institutes. 

Address :    Pardee,  Atchison  County,  Kans. 

Ruth  Brown  Wilmarth,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1867-68, 
was  the  daughter  of  Theophilus  Williams  and  Delia  (Mowry) 
Wilmarth.     Her  father's  ancestors  came  from  England  in  1645 


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to  Rehoboth,  Mass..  and  her  great-grandfather  fought  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  Her  mother's  ancestors  came  to  Rhode 
Island  in  the  ship  Blessing  in  1635.  She  was  born  in  Oxford, 
Mass..  February  23,  1848.  In  June,  1869.  she  was  married  to 
Frank  L.  Smith,  principal  of  the  Bowditch  Grammar  School, 
Salem.  Their  one  son,  Frederic  Wilmarth,  was  born  May  30, 
1870,  and  died  May  4,  1893.  Mrs.  Smith  died  at  Salem,  Mass., 
October  16,  1885. 

Emma  D.  Wood  entered  the  Oread  in  1864  from  Newton 
Centre,  Mass.,  and  was  a  pupil  there  until  1866.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Isaac  U.  and  L.  B.  (Goodell)  Wood,  and  was  born 
in  Hampden  County,  Mass.,  in  1847.  She  was  married  in  1869, 
in  Ceresco,  Mich.,  to  William  A.  Foote,  a  hardware  merchant. 
Their  daughters,  Mary  L.,  born  in  1871,  and  Bessie,  born  in 
1875,  m  Clinton,  Mo.,  are  both  graduates  of  Baird  College, 
Clinton,  Mo.,  both  are  married,  and  each  has  one  child. 

Address :  Mrs.  William  A.  Foote.  502  East  Green  St.,  Clin- 
ton, Mo. 

Rosa  Abella  Wood  was  born  in  Upton,  Mass.,  January  13, 
1852.  Her  father  was  Arba  Thayer  Wood,  a  prominent  busi- 
ness man  in  Upton  until  his  death  in  1872.  Her  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Ann  Maria  Stearns. 

Miss  Wood  attended  the  Oread  in  the  spring  of  1868  and 
the  fall  of  1870.  On  July  11,  1876,  she  was  married  at  West 
Upton,  Mass.,  to  Ellory  Albee  Baldwin,  an  Amherst  graduate 
and  a  civil  engineer.  They  have  six  children,  all  born  in  West 
Upton:  Bertha  May,  born  August  18,  1877,  is  now  Mrs.  F.  E. 
Williams;  Hattie  Anna,  born  May  10,  1879,  studied  music  and 
is  an  organist:  Arba  Stearns,  born  December  12,  1880,  is  a 
clerk;  Emelyn  Wood,  born  October  16,  1883,  attended  the 
Framingham  Normal  School ;  Francis  Marsh,  born  January 
16,  1885,  is  a  student  at  Clark  College,  Worcester;  Ralph  Wes- 
ley, born  April  25,  1889,  is  a  student  in  the  Upton  High  School, 
from  which  all  the  others  were  graduated. 

Mrs.  Baldwin  boasts  ancestors  from  several  lines  who  served 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  is  a  D.  A.  R.  She  has  been 
a  milliner  for  twenty-five  years. 

Address:    Mrs.  E.  A.  Baldwin.  West  Upton,  Mass. 


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Caroline  Elizabeth  Woods,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah 
(Spooner)  Woods,  was  born  in  Barre,  Mass.,  August  6,  1852. 
She  is  a  descendant  of  Governor  Bradford. 

Miss  Woods  entered  the  Oread  in  December,  187 1.  After 
leaving,  she  taught  school  until  the  autumn  of  1874,  and  was 
married  January  19,  1875,  to  Theodore  Manning,  a  wholesale 
boot  and  shoe  dealer.  She  has  eight  children,  all  born  in 
Worcester:  Frederick  Theodore,  born  December  25.  1877, 
graduated  from  the  Worcester  High  School  in  1896,  spent  one 
year  at  Harvard,  and  is  now  a  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Manning  Shoe  and  Rubber  Company  of  Boston ;  Charles 
Arthur,  born  December  7,  1879,  graduated  from  the  Worcester 
High  School  in  1898,  and  is  now  traveling  for  the  Manning 
Shoe  and  Rubber  Company  ;  Grace  Woods,  born  September  5, 
1881,  graduated  from  the  Xewton  High  School  in  1900;  Flor- 
ence Elizabeth,  born  January  23,  1884,  graduated  from  the 
Newton  High  School  in  1902  and  is  now  at  Smith  College; 
David  Ralph,  born  September  28,  1885,  is  also  a  graduate  of 
the  Newton  High  School ;  Robert  Henry  was  born  August  25, 
1887;  Harold  Grosvenor  was  born  July  11,  1889;  and  Clarence 
William  was  born  June  2,  1892. 

Address :  Mrs.  Theodore  Manning,  18  Bennington  St., 
Newton,  Mass. 


REAR    OF    THE    OREAD. 


THE    KITCHEN     LABORATORY     (1905). 


OREAD  CASTLE  IN  1905 


Although  the  Oread  Institute  of  Domestic  Science,  which 
now  occupies  Oread  Castle,  has  no  connection  whatever  with 
the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute, — and  cannot,  in  fact,  even  right- 
fully call  itself  the  latter's  successor,  since  an  interval  of  seven- 
teen years  elapsed  between  the  closing  of  the  one  and  the 
opening  of  the  other — yet  Oread  Castle  is  Oread  Castle  still  to 
all  who  ever  knew  and  loved  it,  and  a  brief  account  of  its 
modern  occupant  and  the  changes  which  have  taken  place  in 
the  Castle  and  its  surroundings  in  the  past  few  years  cannot 
fail  to  be  of  interest  to  all  who  knew  it  in  former  days. 

The  earliest  pupils  of  the  school  will  not  recognize  the  but- 
tressed wall  and  entrance  way  of  heavy  stone  masonry  which 
appear  in  the  view  of  the  Castle  shown  in  the  frontispiece,  but 
this  is  not  a  modern  addition.  It  was  built  in  the  late  sixties 
or  early  seventies.  The  riding  amphitheatre  and  stone  barn, 
also,  were  removed  at  an  early  date.  The  proprietor  of  the 
present  school  has  made  no  changes  in  the  front  of  the  Oread, 
but  an  addition  begun  by  Air.  Thayer  (see  illustration)  in  the 
rear  of  the  building  has  been  enlarged  and  completed  by  him. 
This  addition  is  two  stories  high.  The  first  floor  contains  an 
archway  for  carriages,  or  parte  cochcre,  and  the  heating  and 
lighting  apparatus  ;  the  second  is  used  for  bath  rooms.  Back  of 
the  Oread,  towards  the  north,  stands  a  long,  low,  wooden  build- 
ing which  is  used  as  a  riding  school.  The  well-known  "Ledge'' 
has  been  partially  removed,  and  on  the  summit  of  what  remains 
has  been  erected  an  iron  lattice-work  tower,  surmounted  by 
several  large  electric  lights,  the  whole  being  used  for  illumi- 
nating purposes  solely. 

Inside,  the  building  has  been  remodelled  and  fitted  out  with 
all  the  modern  conveniences,  but  perhaps  the  most  important 
change  is  the  one  alluded  to  in  Miss  Bugbee's  poem,  read  at 
the  Reunion  of  1904: 
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"And  the  Chapel,  where  at  morn  and  eve 
The  Oreads  knelt  to  pray. 
Is  the  modern  schoolgirl's  kitchen  now. 
'So  runs  the  world  away !'  " 

This  kitchen  laboratory  (see  illustration)  occupies  two  stories 
of  the  South  Tower,  the  floor  between  having  been  removed, 
and  a  balcony  for  spectators  encircles  the  room  at  about  the 
height  of  the  second  story.  Another  whole  floor  in  one  of  the 
large  towers  is  used  for  a  gymnasium. 

The  purpose  of  Mr.  Henry  D.  Perky  in  founding  this  school 
was,  as  is  expressed  in  the  catalogue,  "to  provide  practical 
teachers  of  a  practical  domestic  science."  He  wished  to  help 
supply  the  lack,  not  provided  for  in  the  modern  system  of 
education,  of  trained  workers  and  thinkers  along  domestic 
lines.  As  Mr.  Thayer,  in  an  age  when  domestic  training  was 
considered  the  most  essential  thing  in  a  girl's  education,  strove 
to  show  the  value  of  the  trained  intellect  for  girls  as  well  as 
for  boys,  so  Mr.  Perky,  with  almost  exactly  the  opposite 
ideal,  strives  to  show  the.  value  of  a  domestic  training  in  an 
age  which  puts  a  high  estimate  on  a  purely  literary  and  scien- 
tific education.  The  school  offers  a  one  year's  course,  and 
instruction  is  given  in  all  branches  of  Domestic  Science ; — 
Cooking,  Sewing,  Household  Economics,  Sanitation,  the  Chem- 
istry of  Foods,  Bacteriology,  etc.,  as  well  as  in  such  studies  as 
Psychology  and  Pedagogy.  The  graduating  classes  number 
about  fifty  girls,  who  come  from  all  over  the  United  States. 
Certain  courses  are  open  to  those  who  are  not  candidates  for 
a  diploma,  so  the  school  averages  considerably  more  than  fifty 
pupils. 

It  was  closed  during  the  year  1904-05,  but  will  be  opened 
again  in  the  fall  of  1905. 


HISTORY  OF  THE  OREAD  COLLEGIATE 
INSTITUTE  ASSOCIATION 


As  has  been  recorded,  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute  went 
out  of  existence  in  1881,  but  although  it  had  no  longer  a  visible 
form,  its  memory  was  cherished  by  hundreds  of  its  pupils. 
Xo  girl  can  ever  quite  forget  the  school  where  she  spent  the 
days  of  her  young  maidenhood,  nor  cease  to  be  grateful  for 
the  pleasure  and  benefit  which  came  to  her  within  its  walls. 
Twenty  years  after  the  doors  of  the  Oread  were  closed,  the 
still  active  love  and  loyalty  of  the  Oreades  to  their  Alma  Mater 
found  expression  in  the  formation  of  an  Oread  Collegiate 
Institute  Association. 

This  association  did  not  spring  into  existence  full-fledged,  but 
was  the  outgrowth  of  a  plan  formed  by  Miss  Anna  M.  Bancroft, 
in  the  winter  of  1901,  for  a  reunion  of  her  old  class  (the 
graduating  class  of  1871).  She  asked  the  assistance  of  her 
classmates,  Mrs.  Laura  Merriam  Mayo  and  Mrs.  Nellie  Gilbert 
Pervear,  and  plans  were  on  foot  for  this  reunion,  when  a  sug- 
gestion was  made  by  Miss  Bancroft's  sister,  Mrs.  Mary  Ban- 
croft Winsor  of  the  class  of  1875,  that  the  plan  be  given  a 
wider  scope,  and  that  the  reunion  be  not  of  one  class  alone, 
but  include  all  former  Oread  pupils  and  teachers.  This  scheme 
was  a  bold  one,  but,  nothing  daunted,  the  four  above  mentioned 
with  four  others.  Mrs.  Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison,  Miss  Anna 
M.  Seaver,  Mrs.  Ida  Boyden  Day,  and  Mrs.  Caroline  Raymond 
Perkins,  started  on  the  difficult  preliminary  task  of  making 
a  list  of  former  <  (read  pupils  and  finding  out  their  present 
addresses.  They  discovered  that  all  the  school  registers  had 
been  destroyed,  and  that  there  was  no  file  of  catalogues.  But 
with  the  help  of  the  few  catalogues  then  in  their  possession, 
and  after  untiring  efforts  along  every  possible  line — writing- 
countless  letters,  making  inquiries  of  friends,  and  even  adver- 
tising in  the  Worcester  papers — a  considerable  number  of  Oread 


452  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

pupils  were  found.  October  10,  1901,  was  appointed  as  the 
date  of  the  reunion,  and  about  two  hundred  invitations  were 
sent  out. 

The  First  Meeting. 

In  the  morning'  of  October  10  many  of  the  Oreades  who 
had  been  bidden  to  the  reunion  availed  themselves  of  the 
permission  granted  by  the  management  of  the  Oread  School 
of  Domestic  Science,  to  inspect  the  building  and  grounds  of 
Oread  Castle.  This  visit  did  not  fail  to  arouse  many  pleasant 
memories  of  the  days  of  old  and  to  intensify  the  already  strong 
feeling  of  love  and  loyalty  in  the  hearts  of  the  Oreades. 

The  reunion  was  held  at  the  Bay  State  House,  Worcester. 
After  an  informal  reception,  luncheon  was  served  to  about 
sixty  former  Oread  pupils  and  teachers.  Mrs.  Eli  Thayer, 
wife  of  the  founder  of  the  Institute,  was  the  guest  of  honor. 
A  business  meeting  followed.  At  this  meeting  a  permanent 
association  was  formed,  with  the  following  officers : 

President   Miss  Anna  M.   Bancroft. 

Vice-Presidents   Mrs.  Laura  Spelman  Rockefeller. 

Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee. 

Mrs.  Grace  Weston  Allen. 

Recording  Secretary  Mrs.  Caroline  Raymond  Perkins. 

Corresponding  Secretary   Miss  Anna  M.   Seaver. 

Treasurer    Mrs.  Ida  Boyden  Day. 

Directors    Mrs.  Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison. 

Mrs.  Laura  Merriam  Mayo. 

Miss  Ida  M.  Thayer. 

Brief  addresses  were  given  by  Miss  Bancroft,  Mrs.  Winsor, 
Mrs.  Gunnison  and  Mrs.  Day.  Miss  Bancroft  told  how  the 
plan  to  form  an  Oread  Association  was  started,  Mrs.  Winsor 
gave  an  account  of  the  founding  of  the  school  and  facts  in 
the  life  of  Mr.  Thayer,  its  founder.  Mrs.  Gunnison  gave  a 
report  from  the  class  of  1861  (which  at  this  time  was  thought 
to  be  the  first  graduating  class),  and  Mrs.  Day  gave  a  historical 
paper,  containing  many  valuable  statistics.  After  the  reading' 
of  several  enthusiastic  letters  from  old  Oread  pupils  and 
teachers  who  were  unable  to  be  present,  the  meeting  adjourned. 

Second  Annual  Meeting. 
The  second  annual  meeting  of  the  (  )read  Collegiate  Institute 
Association  was  held  in  Colonial   Hall,  Worcester,  on  October 
j  1,  1902.     After  an  informal  reception,  luncheon  was  served,  to 


Oread  Collegiate  Institute  Association  ,',55 

which  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  persons  sat  down.  A  roll- 
call  followed  the  luncheon.  At  the  business  meeting  in  the  after- 
noon a  Constitution  and  By-Laws  were  presented  by  the  Execu- 
tive Board,  and  adopted  by  the  Association.  The  Correspond- 
ing Secretary  made  a  noteworthy  report,  showing  that  a  list 
of  1,413  former  pupils  of  the  Oread  had  been  gathered  together, 
and  the  present  addresses  of  about  eight  hundred  of  these 
found.  It  was  voted  that  this  list  of  names  and  addresses 
be  printed,  with  the  Constitution  and  By-laws.*  The  President 
then  presented  to  the  Association  for  action  a  suggestion  that 
had  been  made  that  a  book  be  printed,  containing  a  history 
of  the  Oread  and  biographical  records  of  as  many  of  its  former 
teachers  and  pupils  as  possible.  The  discussion  which  fol- 
lowed seemed  to  favor  this  project,  and  the  matter  was  referred 
to  a  committee,  consisting  of  the  Executive  Board  and  two 
others,  Airs.  Martha  Burt  Wright  and  Airs.  Harriet  Westbrook 
Dunning. j  A  suggestion  had  been  made  that  the  Association 
adopt  a  pin,  and  Miss  Ida  M.  Thayer  reported  as  to  cost, 
design,  etc4  The  board  of  officers  which  had  served  for  the 
preceding  year  was  re-elected. 

A  brief  literary  program  followed.  Mrs.  Clara  Thayer  Perry 
reported  for  the  class  of  1865  and  Mrs.  Martha  Burt  Wright 
for  the  class  of  1871.  Mrs.  Winsor  read  a  letter  from  Mrs. 
Abbie  Jones  Hayward,  giving  a  short  sketch  of  the  history 
of  the  class  of  1875.  Miss  Mary  C.  C.  Goddard,  an  Oread 
teacher  of  1865-73,  gave  some  delightful  reminiscences  of  the 
school  as  she  knew  it,  and  Mrs.  Laura  Goodnow  Mattoon, 
assisted  by  Mrs.  Day  at  the  piano,  entertained  the  Association 
with  a  clever  monologue.  After  singing  a  verse  of  "Auld 
Lang  Syne"   the  company  broke  up. 

*  This  little  document  appeared  two  or  three  months  later,  is  known 
to  members  of  the  Association  as  the  "Year  Book,"  and  has  proved 
of  inestimable  value  to  all  who  have  had  a  part  in  compiling  this  History. 

f  At  a  meeting  of  this  Committee  held  on  November  7,  1902,  Mrs. 
Wright  was  appointed  Editor  of  this  History,  and  Miss  Bancroft 
Associate  Editor. 

X  After  it  was  definitely  decided  to  publish  a  History,  the  plans  for 
an  Association  pin  were  temporarily  dropped. 


454  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

Third  Annual  Meeting. 

The  third  annual  meeting  of  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 
Association  was  held  at  the  Woman's  Club,  Worcester,  on 
October  10,  1903.  Contrary  to  the  custom  hitherto  followed, 
the  business  meeting  was  held  before  the  luncheon.  The  meet- 
ing was  called  to  order  at  11  o'clock.  The  officers  who  had 
served  the  Association  for  the  preceding  two  years  were  again 
re-elected.  An  amendment  to  the  Constitution,  changing  the 
time  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  from  the  second 
Saturday  to  the  second  Friday  in  October,  was  proposed  and 
adopted.  A  motion  was  made  and  carried  that  the  next  annual 
meeting  should  be  "Family  Day,"  that  is,  that  the  members 
should  be  asked  to  bring  their  husbands  and  children  to  the 
luncheon.  Letters  were  read  from  Mrs.  Mary  Tolman  Bradt 
and  Airs.  Juliet  Pattison  Kline.  It  was  voted  to  send  news- 
paper reports  of  the  meeting  to  all  invalid  members  of  the 
Association.  A  report  of  the  progress  of  the  Oread  History 
work  was  read  by  the  Editor.  Mrs.  Wright. 

Luncheon  was  served  to  about  one  hundred  and  forty.  This 
was  followed  by  the  roll-call.  A  poem,  "Now  and  Then," 
written  by  Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee,  was  read  by  Miss  Ban- 
croft, and  responses  were  given  to  the  following  toasts : 

"Our    First    Graduates,"    by    Airs.    S.    Jane    Wheelock   Hickok    (class 

of  1854). 

"The  Class  of  1856,''  by  Mrs.  Mary  Frances  Gilman  Peirce  (class 
of  1856). 

"The  Class  of  1873,"  letter  read  from  Miss  Emma  R.  Ross  of  that 
class,  who  was  in  Manila,  P.  I. 

"Our  History,"    by  Airs.  Martha  Burt  Wright. 

"Our  Future,"    by  Mrs.  Mary  Bancroft  Winsor. 

The  meeting  adjourned  after  singing   "Auld  Lang  Syne." 

Fourth  Annual  Meeting. 

Most  persistent  efforts  had  been  made  to  have  this  meeting 
held  at  Oread  Castle  itself,  which  was  at  this  time  unoccupied, 
but  the  necessary  arrangements  could  not  be  made,  and  the 
meeting  was  held  at  the  Bay  State  House  on  October  14,  1904. 
At  the  business  meeting  which  was  held  in  the  morning,  the 
following  officers  were  elected  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  vear: 


Oread  Collegiate  Institute  Association  455 

President  Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee. 

/  'ice-Presidents  Mrs.  Laura  Spelman  Rockefeller. 

Miss  Anna  M.  Bancroft. 

Mrs.  Grace  Weston  Allen. 

Recording  Secretary   Mrs.  Eleanor  Bliss  Dexter. 

Corresponding  Secretary Miss  Anna  M.   Seaver. 

Treasurer   Mrs.  Ida  Boyden  Day. 

Directors   Mrs.  Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison. 

Mrs.  Ellen  Tuck  McLane. 

Miss  Ida  M.  Thayer. 

A  rising-  vote  of  thanks  was  extended  to  the  retiring"  President, 
Miss  Bancroft,  for  her  faithful  and  efficient  services.  After  a 
few  other  small  matters  of  business  the  meeting  adjourned. 

From  12  till  2  o'clock  a  reception  was  held  to  meet  the  new 
president.  Miss  Bugbee.  In  accordance  with  the  plan  proposed 
at  the  meeting  of  the  Association  in  1903,  members  brought 
their  husbands  and  children  to  this  reunion,  and  there  was  an 
unusually  large  number  present  at  the  reception  and  the  luncheon 
following.  About  two  hundred  sat  down  to  the  luncheon,  and 
grace  was  asked  by  Dr.  D.  W.  Faunce,  father  of  the  President 
of  Brown  University  and  husband  of  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Tucker 
Faunce,  Oread  Preceptress  in  1867-69.  Toasts  followed  the 
luncheon.  The  first  was  responded  to  bv  Mr.  John  Alden 
Thayer,  Principal  of  the  Oread  in  1879-80,  and  son  of  its 
founder,  Eli  Thayer.  He  spoke  on  "Things  once  familiar,  now 
almost  forgotten."  Part  of  his  speech  will  be  found  on  page  17. 
The  other  speakers  were :  Professor  Binney  Gunnison,  son  of 
Mrs.  Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison  of  the  class  of  1861,  who  spoke 
on  "Why  we  are  here" ;  Judge  William  T.  Forbes,  husband  of 
Mrs.  Harriette  Merrifield  Forbes  of  the  class  of  1873,  whose 
subject  was  "Loyalty  to  the  Association  means  Loyalty  to  the 
School" ;  Dean  Henry  P.  Wright  of  Yale,  husband  of  Mrs. 
Martha  Burt  Wright  of  the  class  of  1871,  who  spoke  on  "What 
the  History  Tells" ;  and  Mr.  Walter  Allen  of  the  Boston 
Herald,  husband  of  Mrs.  Grace  Weston  Allen  of  the  class  of 
1861,  who  spoke  on  "Our  Wives  and  their  Oread  Chums." 
After  the  toasts  Mrs.  Winsor  read  a  poem  written  by  Miss 
Bugbee,  the  incoming  President,  entitled  "Our  Guests." 
This  concluded  the  exercises  of  the  dav. 


456  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS 
OF  THE  OREAD  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTE  ASSOCIATION 


CONSTITUTION 


ARTICLE    I. 


The  name  of  this  organization  shall  be  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 
Association. 

ARTICLE   II. 

OBJECT. 

Its  object  shall  be  to  renew  old  acquaintances  and  make  new  friends 
from  tliose  who  have  a  common  interest,  having  attended  the  Oread 
Collegiate  Institute. 

ARTICLE    III. 

OFFICERS. 

The  officers  of  this  Association  shall  consist  of  a  President,  three 
Vice-Presidents,  Recording  Secretary,  Corresponding  Secretary,  Treas- 
urer, and  a  Board  of  Directors  consisting  of  the  above  named  officers 
and  three  others,  all  to  be  elected  by  ballot  from  regular  members  of  the 
Association  at  the  annual  meeting. 

The  officers  so  elected  shall  enter  upon  their  duties  at  the  close  of 
the  annual  meeting,  and  shall  hold  their  offices  for  one  year,  or  until 
others  are  elected  in  their  places. 

The  Board  of  Directors  shall  have  power  to  fill  any  vacancies  that 
may  occur  during  the  year. 

.    ARTICLE    IV. 

ANNUAL    MEETING. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  field  the  second  Saturday  in  October,* 
unless  otherwise  ordered.  Due  notice  of  time  and  place  shall  be  given 
the  members.  The  annual  fees  shall  become  due  and  the  Association's 
year  shall  begin  at  the  close  of  tfie  annual  meeting. 

ARTICLE   V. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Tfiese  articles  may  be  amended  at  any  regular  meeting  by  a  two-thirds 
vote  of  the  members  present,  provided  a  notice  of  the  intended  change 
has  been  sent  to  each  member  at  least  two  weeks  before  the  meeting. 

*This  article  was  amended  at  the  third  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  to  read  "The 
annual  meeting  shall  be  held  the  second  Friday  in  October." 


Constitution  and  By-Laws  457 

BY-LAWS 


ARTICLE   I. 

DUTIES   OF   OFFICERS. 

President. 
Section  i.  The  President,  when  present,  shall  preside  at  all  meetings 
of  the  Association  and  Board  of  Directors,  and  shall  perform  all  other 
duties  belonging  to  the  office.  At  least  three  months  before  the  annual 
meeting,  she  shall  appoint  a  Nominating  Committee  of  three,  one  from 
the  Board  of  Directors  and  two  from  the  Association  at  large,  who 
shall  present  a  list  of  officers  to  be  balloted  for  at  the  annual  meeting. 

J  'ice-Presidents. 
Sec.  2.     In  the  absence  of  the  President,  her  duties  shall  be  performed 
by  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents,  in  the  order  of  the  names  upon  the  official 
list.     In  case  of  the  absence  or  disability  of  the  President  and  Vice-Presi- 
dents, the  members  may  elect  a  President  pro  tern. 

Recording  Secretary. 
Sec.  3.     The    Recording    Secretary   shall   keep    correct    records    of    all 
meetings  of  the  Association  and  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Corresponding  Secretary. 
Sec.  4.     The    Corresponding    Secretary    shall    keep    a    roll    of    all    the 
members,  with  school  names  and  present  addresses.     She  shall  conduct 
the  correspondence  of  the  Association,  and  shall  make  a  written  report 
of  her  work  at  the  annual  meeting. 

Treasurer. 

Sec.  5.  The  Treasurer  shall  collect  dues,  be  responsible  for  all  money 
of  the  Association,  pay  all  bills  when  approved  by  at  least  two  other 
members  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  and  present  at  the  annual  meeting 
a  full  written  report  of  money  received  and  expended  during  the  year. 

Otlier  Officers. 
Sec.  6.     The   duties  of  the  other  officers   shall  be  those  that   usually 
pertain  to  those  offices. 

ARTICLE    II. 

MEMBERS. 

Section  i.  Any  person  who  attended  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 
at  any  time  between  1849  and  1S81  may  become  a  member  of  the  Asso- 
ciation by  the  payment  of  the  membership  fee. 

membership  fee. 
Sec.  2.     The  membership  fee  shall  be  one  dollar,  and  there  shall  be  an 
annual  fee  of  one  dollar. 


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HONORARY    MEMBERS. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  who  taught  at  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute  at 
any  time  between  1849  and  1881  may  become  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Association. 

ARTICLE    III. 

AMENDMENTS. 

These  By-Laws  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting 
of  the  Association,  provided  a  notice  of  the  intended  change  has  been 
sent  to  each  member  at  least  two  weeks  before  the  meeting. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  OREAD  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTE 
ASSOCIATION 


Mrs.  Mary  Adams   Irish.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Sylvia  Adams  Koch.  Miss 

Airs.  Helen  Aldrich  Whiting.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Juliette  Allen  Washburn.  Miss 

Mrs.  Minnie  Allen  Morse.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Ella  Bacon  King.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Abbie  Baker  Merriam.  Mrs. 

Miss  Esther  H.   Baker.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Exie  Baker  Jones.  Miss 

Mrs.  Clara  Baldwin   Porter.  Miss 

Miss  Anna  M.   Bancroft.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Mary  Bancroft  Winsor.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Augusta  Banvard  Fales.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Kate  Barry  Gilbert.  Miss 

Mrs.  Carrie  Bassett  Macomber.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Mary  Bassett  Hutchins.  Mrs. 

Airs.  Amelia  Bates  Jenckes.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Nettie  Beebe  Robbins.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Bemis  Harrington.  Miss 

Mrs.  Alice  Bigelow  Knowles.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Sarah   Bigelow   Davis.  Mrs. 

Airs.  Augusta   Billings   Taintor.  Mrs. 

Airs.  Addie  Bird  Mclntire.  Miss 

Miss  Cora   L  Blair.  Mrs. 

Airs.  Julia   Blake  Clark.  Mrs. 

Airs.  Kk-anor   liliss   I  kxter.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Susan  Borden  Sanford.  Airs. 

Airs.  Alary   Boyce  llobson.  Mrs. 

Airs.  Ida   Boyden  Day.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Boynton  Gunnison.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Emma  Briggs  Carroll.  Mrs. 

:  I  >eceased. 


Ella  Buffum  Hanna. 
Elizabeth  D.  Bugbee. 
Martha  Burt  Wright. 
Lucy  A.  Bushee. 
Deodata  Chadsey  Fisher. 
Grace  Chase  Allen. 
Caroline  Cheney  Eaton. 
Calista  Church  Cottrell. 
Elizabeth  A.  Clapp. 
Mary  S.  Clapp. 
Pernella   Clark   Wight. 
Mary  Clark  Wadley. 
Hattie  Clifford  Murdock. 
Ella  M.  Cole. 
Adelaide   Collier   Parker. 
Sarah  Crossman  Grover. 
Abbie  Cutler  Coburn. 
Susan   Damon  Gale. 
Abbie   S.  Davis. 
Etta  DeLand  Gay. 
V.  Susie  Depew  Folger. 
Emma  Dickinson  Newland. 
Abbie  L.  Dispeau. 
Eleanor  Doane  Bigelow. 
Emilie  Doolittlc  Martin. 
Eliza  Draper  Robinson. 
Ellen  Duncan  Spfague. 
Emma  Duncan  Bates. 
Ella  Eddy  Briggs. 
Jennie  I  ".hired  Minor. 
Emily  Fay  ( rriswold.* 


Members  of  the  Associati 


459 


Miss  Minnie  C.  Fisher. 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Flagg  Thayer. 

.Airs.  Annabelle  Freeman  Woodward 

Mrs.  Emma  Frost  Miner. 

Mrs.  Martha  Fullam  Blair. 

Mrs.  Alice  Gaskill  Wilson. 

Mrs.  Nellie  Gilbert  Pervear. 

Mrs.   Mar}'  Gill   Ropes. 

Mrs.  Mary  Frances  Gilman   Peirce. 

Mrs.  Ella  Goddard  Scott. 

Mrs.  Laura  Goodnow  Mattoon.* 

Mrs.  Ella  Goss  White. 

Mrs.  Hattie  Goss  Magna. 

Mrs.  Emilie  Goulding  Allen. 

Mrs.  Alice  Greene  Metcalf. 

Miss   Eliza  M.  Greenwood. 

Mrs.  Hattie  Gray  Clay. 

Mrs.  Delia  Griggs  Harrington. 

Miss  Sarah  A.  Hale. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Hamilton  Hunt. 

Mrs.  Carrie  Hammond  Mason. 

Mrs.  Etta  Hancock  Harrington. 

Miss  Kate  A.  Harrington. 

Mrs.  Katie  Harrington  Allen. 

Airs.  May  Harris  Cutting. 

Mrs.  Annie  Hart  well  Hazard. 

Mrs.  Nannie  Heywood  Griswold. 

Mrs.  Rosa  Heywood  Brown. 

Mrs.  Etta  Hill  Knibbs. 

Mrs.  Addie  Holbrook  Rice. 

Mrs.  Angeline  Holbrook  Smith. 

Mrs.  Eliza  Hooper  Bradbury. 

Mrs.  Hattie  Horton  Brown. 

Mrs.  Idabel  House  Stearns. 

Mrs.  Helen  Howe  Bennett. 

Miss  Mary  P.  Hoyt. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Humphrey  Baker. 

Miss  Susan  N.  Hunt. 

Mrs.  Abbie  Jones  Hayward. 

Mrs.  Genevieve  Jordan  Forrest. 

Mrs.  Annie  Kemp  Ray. 

Mrs.  Lydia  Kendall  Newdiall. 

Mrs.  Carrie  King  Hunt. 

Mrs.  Emily  Kingsbury  Shattuck. 

Mrs.  Mary  Knowlton  Nixon. 

Mrs.  Marion  Lakin  Warren. 

Mrs.  Emma  Lamb  Rogers. 

Mrs.  Minnie  Larkham  Johnson. 

*D 


Mrs.  Hattie  La'throp  Anthony. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Lees  Pierce. 
Miss  Fannie  Leland. 
Mrs.  Cordelia  Loring  Brooks. 
Mrs.   Nellie  Loring  Sidelinger. 
Mrs.  Eliza  Loudon  Lumb. 
Mrs.  Ellen   Mahoney   Adams. 
Mrs.  Emma  Manley  Bailey. 
Mrs.   Sylvia  Martin  Moss. 
Mrs.  Abbie   McFarland   Buckingham. 
Mrs.  Alice  Mcintosh  Stone. 
Miss  Amelia  Merriam. 
Mrs.  Ida  Merriam  Simonds. 
Mrs.  Laura  Merriam  Mayo. 
Mrs.  Harriette  Merrifield   Forbes. 
Mrs.  Genevieve   Merrill   Magee. 
Mrs.  Susie  Metz  Freileweh. 
Mrs.  Estelle  Miller  Weeks. 
Mrs.  Jennie  Moran  Benchley. 
Mrs.  Harriet  Munroe  Abbott. 
Mrs.  Esther  Munsill  Ulrich. 
Mrs.  Louise  Packard  Gibbs. 
Mrs.  Alice  Paine  Davis. 
Mrs.  Hannah  Pond  Taft. 
Mrs.  Cora  Powers  Dodge. 
Mrs.  Emma  Prescott  Eaton. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Quimby  Pettigrew. 
Mrs.  Caroline  Raymond  Perkins. 
Mrs.  Abby  Redding  Marble. 
Miss  M.  Emma  Reed. 
Mrs.  Josie  Reed  Noyes. 
Mrs.  Hattie  Reynolds  Gleason. 
Mrs.  Charlotte  Rice  Robinson. 
Mrs.  Mary  Rice  Hunt. 
Mrs.  Estelle  Rogers  Boyden. 
Miss  Nellie  F.  Rogers. 
Mrs.  Mary  Rose  Pepper. 
Mrs.  Sophronia  Rouse  Holt. 
Mrs.  Marianna  Russell  Bartholomew. 
Mrs.  Ella  Sayles  Russell. 
Mrs.  Lizzie  Sayles  Bidwell. 
Mrs.  Nellie  Sayles  Jenks. 
Miss  Alice  Scott. 
Miss  Anna  M.  Seaver. 
Miss  Huldah  D.  Sheldon. 
Miss  Mary  E.  Shippee. 
Mrs.  Etta  Sibley  Crosby. 
Miss  Adelaide  L.   Smiley, 
eceased. 


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Miss  Mattie  L.  Smiley.  Mrs. 

Miss  Hattie  A.  Smith.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Mary  A.   Smith   Baker.  Mrs. 

Mi>s  S.  M.  Smith.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Emma  Spaulding  Bartlett.  Miss 

Mrs.  Laura  Spelman  Rockefeller.  Mrs. 

Miss  Lucy  M.  Spelman.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Agnes  Spencer  Bissland.  Mrs. 

Miss  Frances  A.  Spink.  Mrs. 

Miss  Mary  F.  Spink.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Josephine  C.   Spinney.  Miss 

Mrs.  Ruth  Stafford  Bacon.  Miss 

Miss  Hattie  L.  Stearns.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Helen  Steele  Barstow.  Miss 

Mrs.  Isabelle   Stratton   Otis.  ~Mrs. 

Mrs.  Jennie  Taft  Wheelock.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Clara  Thayer  Perry.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Clara  Thayer  Hiller.  Mrs. 

Miss  Cora  P.  Thayer.  Mrs. 

Miss  Eva  A.  Thayer.  Mrs. 

Miss  Ida  M.  Thayer.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Nellie  Thayer  Clary.  Mrs. 

Mrs.  Laura  Thorpe  Woods.  Mrs. 

Miss  Mary  Abbie  Tilton.  Mrs. 


Alice  Todd  Gilbert. 
Ellen  Tuck   McLane. 
Libbie  Tuller  Kendall. 
Sarah  Underwood  Curtis. 
Floretta  Vining. 
Agnes  Walker  White. 
Lizzie  Wedge  Wells. 
Minnie  Wedge  Wheeler. 
Margaret  Weeks  Shipley. 
Harriet  Westbrook  Dunning. 
S.  Maria  Westbrook. 
Almira  Elizabeth  Westcott. 
Grace  Weston  Allen. 
Marietta  Wheeler. 
S.  Jane  Wheelock  Hickok. 
Florence  Whidden  Stowell. 
Juliet  Wilcox  Reynolds. 
Ella  Williams  Fiske. 
Ellen  Williams  Fairbanks. 
Mattie  Williams  McFarland. 
Louise  Wood  Wellman. 
Sarah  Wood  Reed. 
Elizabeth  Woodbury  Reid. 
Caroline  Woods  Manning. 


HONORARY  MEMBERS  OF  THE  OREAD  COLLEGIATE 
INSTITUTE  ASSOCIATION 


Prof.  Benjamin  D.  Allen. 

Mile.  Louise  Amaron. 

Dr.  Seabury  W.  Bowen 

Mrs.  Cornelia  A.  Brigham  Taft. 

Mi^--  Mary  E.  Brigham. 

Miss  Penelope  Burns. 

Prof.  William  E.  Chandler. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Clark. 

Mini.    Perside  A.  Clements. 

Mrs.  Alma  E.  Curtis  Howes. 

Mrs.  Minerva  Cushing  Crocker. 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Doane. 

Mrs.  Caroline  A.  Flagg  Bemis. 

Mrs.  Marcy  Foster  Beard. 

Mrs.  Carrie  M.  Frost  Kin,!;. 

Mrs.  Carrie  D.  Fuller  Fairbanks. 

Pres.   1  larrict   E.  Giles. 

Miss  Mary  C.  C.  Goddard. 


Mrs.  Harris  R.  Greene. 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Grosvenor  Woods. 

Prof.  Edward  W.  Hall. 

Mr.  Walter  Kennedy. 

Miss  Helen  M.  Knowlton. 

Miss  Harriet  E.  Paine. 

Mr.  Everett  W.  Pattison. 

Mr.  James  William  Pattison. 

Prof.  C.  C.  Stearns. 

Prof.  E.  B.  Story. 

Mrs.   Marion  J.  Sumner. 

Mr.  John  Alden  Thayer. 

Mrs.  Mary  E.  Tucker  Faunce. 

Miss  Ava  Williams. 

Miss  Jennie  L.  Woodbury. 

Mrs.  Franziska  W.  Vagt  Fitch. 

Rev.  George  N.  Webber. 


Additional  Biographies  461 

The  following  biographies  arrived  too  late  for  insertion  in 
their  proper  place  in  the  History : 

OREAD    PUPILS    OF    1849-59 

Mary  Bishop,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Tabitha  Bishop,  was 
born  in  Lisbon,  Conn.,  on  September  20,  1836.  She  came  to 
the  Oread  from  Woodstock,  Conn.,  in  1854. 

After  leaving  the  Oread  she  graduated  at  Mt.  Holyoke  Semi- 
narv,  and  was  married  in  1863  to  Horace  Whitney,  a  farmer. 
She  had  four  children  :  Alice  M.3  born  in  1867,  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  L  niversity :  Mabel  B.,  born  in  1872, 
is  a  graduate  of  the  High  School  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  was 
married  in  1894  to  Harry  \Y.  Wachter ;  Lura  I.,  born  in  1874, 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Toledo  High  School ;  and  Herbert,  born 
in  1877,  ^s  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College. 

Mrs.  Whitney  died  May  16,  1903. 

Jane  M.  Chick,  who  entered  the  Oread  in  the  spring  of  1856 
from  Frankfort,  Me.,  and  remained  one  term,  was  the  daughter 
of  Elisha  and  Ruth  (  Avery  )  Chick,  and  was  born  in  Frankfort, 
February  18,  1836.  Her  mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
Rev.  John  Avery  of  Dedham,  Mass. 

After  leaving  the  Oread,  Miss  Chick  was  a  pupil  for  a  year 
or  more  at  the  Young  Ladies'  Seminary  in  Warren.  R.  I.  She 
is  now  a  partial  invalid. 

Address :    Winterport,  Me. 

Elizabeth  M.  Dickinson,  a  Worcester  Oread  of  1853-55, 
was  the  daughter  of  Henry  B.  and  Esther  Mann  (Thayer) 
Dickinson,  and  was  born  in  Worcester,  July  28.  1836.  She 
was  married  in  Worcester  on  November  26,  1859,  to  Daniel 
Howard  of  Randolph,  Mass.  After  her  marriage  she  lived  in 
Randolph.  Mr.  Howard  was  a  manufacturer  of  boots  and 
shoes.  He  was  three  times  elected  to  the  State  Legislature, 
and  held  the  offices  of  trustee  of  the  Stetson  High  School  and 
moderator  in  town  meetings  for  twenty-rive  years.  He  was  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  Public  Library  until  his  death  in  1887. 
Mrs.  Howard  has  two  children,  both  born  in  Randolph  :  Daniel 
X.  is  a  graduate  of  the  Randolph  High  School,  is  now  a  drug- 
gist in  Medford,  Mass.,  and  was  married  in  Medford  in  May, 
1885,  to  Fanny  G.  Waterman  :    Mary  graduated  from  the  Ran- 


462  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

dolph  High  School,  from  Thayer  Academy  in  Braintree,  and 
from  the  Ouincy  Training  School. 

Address :  Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.  Howard.  70  Maywrood  St.,  Rox- 
bury,  Mass. 

Harriette  A.  Elliott,  daughter  of  Moody  and  Harriette 
Hard}-   ( Tyler )   Elliott,  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  April  30, 

1836.  She  attended  the  Oread  about  1854. 

She  was  married  in  Danvers  to  George  E.  Johnson,  a  sea 
captain,  and  had  three  children  :  Elliott  Gray,  George  E.,  Jr., 
and  DeCourcey  E.     She  is  no  longer  living. 

Caroline  Hillman  was  born  in  Xorth  Tisbury,  Mass.,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  Captain  Walter  and  Adaline  (Norton)  Hillman. 
She  came  to  the  Oread  from  Martha's  Vineyard,  and  was  a 
pupil  there  for  two  years,  1851-53.  She  was  married  to  Jason 
Luce,  a  fish  dealer,  and  had  one  daughter,  Adelia  Hillman  Luce, 
born  in  1865,  who  is  now  Mrs.  Cromwell. 

Mrs.  Luce  died  on  September  19,  1870. 

Adelia  S.  Hovey,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1851—53,  enter- 
ing from  Sycamore,  111.,  was  married  to  Elias  Hammond,  and 
died  about  1874  in  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

Ellen  L.  King,  who  attended  the  Oread  in  1851-53.  was 
the  daughter  of  Maynard  Holland  King  and  Levinia  Bigelow 
Davis,  and  was  born  in  West  Boylston,  Mass.,  on  December  23, 

1837.  She  was  married  to  Wilson  J.  Rider,  a  farmer,  on  Jan- 
uary 16,  1861,  at  Geneseo,  111.,  and  had  one  son,  Freddie,  born 
February  5,  1866.  He  died  July  20  of  the  same  year.  She 
had  also  an  adopted  daughter,  Inga  T.  Rider. 

Mrs.  Rider  died  on  October  7,  1890. 

Hester  A.  Lovewell  was  the  daughter  of  Xoah  P.  and  Lucy 
I  Freeman  )  Lovewell,  and  was  born  in  1838,  probably  in  Canaan, 
(  nnn. 

<  )n  her  father's  side  she  was  a  descendant  of  Captain  John 
Lovewell  of  Revolutionary  fame,  and  through  her  grandmother 
she  was  a  descendant  of  General   Putnam. 

She  was  a  pupil  at  the  (  tread  in  1854-55,  entering  from 
Mendon,  Mass. 


Additional  Biographies  463 

She  was  married  to  Adin  Alexander,  and  had  three  children, 
John,  Emma  and  Lucie,  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  Denver, 
Col. 

Airs.  Alexander  is  no  longer  living'. 

Ama  Mazuzan,  who  came  to  the  Oread  from  Brandon,  Vt., 
in  1855,  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  James  Mazuzan. 
Soon  after  leaving  the  Oread  she  was  married  to  G.  H.  Chatter- 
ton  of  Sutherland  Falls,  Rutland,  Vt.  Mr.  Chatterton  was  a 
lawyer,  and  afterwards  studied  at  Auburn  Theological  Seminary 
for  the  ministry.  They  had  one  son,  Fenimore,  who  until 
recently  was  Governor  of  Wyoming.  He  was  born  at  Oswego, 
N.  Y.,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Ann  Arbor 
University. 

Mrs.  Chatterton  was  often  spoken  of  as  "one  who  loved  the 
Lord  and  loved  to  do  good."  She  died  in  Brandon,  Yt.,  about 
1870. 

Adelphia  Ann  Powers  was  born  in  Warren,  Mass.,  March 
:9.<  l&33-  Her  father  was  John  Haskel  Powers  and  her  mother 
Clarissa  Amelia  Patrick.  She  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
Matthew  Watson,  who  came  to  America  in  17 18  and  settled  in 
Leicester,  Mass. 

Adelphia  attended  the  Oread  while  Mrs.  Curtis  was  Precep- 
tress, and  died  of  consumption  on  June  6,  1854,  in  Warren, 
Mass.  This  was  very  soon  after  leaving  the  Oread  and  when 
she  was  in  her  twenty-first  year. 

Helen  M.  Taft  was  the  daughter  of  Gilbert  C.  and  Lucy 
B.  (  Anderson )  Taft,  and  was  born  in  Worcester  on  February 
10,  1838.  She  attended  the  Oread  in  1851-53.  On  Xovember 
4,  1858,  she  was  married  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  to  Horace  S. 
Warren,  a  shoe  manufacturer,  and  later  a  farmer.  She  had  one 
son,  Frank  H.,  born  December  30,  1866,  in  Grafton. 

Mrs.  Warren  died  May  8,  1891. 

OREAD    PUPILS   OF    1859-64 

Ann  Amanda  Greene,  daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
Greene,  was  born  in  Mansfield,  Mass.,  in  October,  1844.  She 
was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  the  early  part  of  Dr.  Pattison's 
administration,  and  died  at  her  home  in  Mansfield  in  Septem- 
ber, i86q. 


464  Oread  Collegiate  Institute 

The  class  of  1861  has  now  twelve  grandchildren  instead  of 
nine  as  reported  on  page  164.  The  new-comers  are :  Helen 
Elizabeth  Beach,  born  December  12,  1904,  daughter  of  Henry 
L.  Beach  (page  169)  ;  Lloyd  Elli  Beach,  born  March  5,  1905, 
son  of  Clinton  S.  Beach  (p.  169)  ;  Eleanor  Weston  Hollis,  born 
April  3,  1905,  daughter  of  Grace  (Allen)  Hollis  (p.  171). 

OREAD  PUPILS  OF  1864-81 

Eva  R.  Martin,  who  was  a  pupil  at  the  Oread  in  1872-73, 
was  born  at  Corinth,  Vt.,  November  17,  1850.  Her  father  was 
Abner  Harriman  Martin  and  her  mother  Sarah  (Jenness) 
Martin.  She  was  married  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  August  8,  1873, 
to  Guy  W.  Johnson.  Her  husband  was  a  physician,  and  a 
graduate  of  the  Bowdoin  Medical  School  in  the  class  of  1869. 
He  died  at  Stratford,  N.  H.,  on  December  15.  1902. 

They  had  five  children,  all  born  at  Stratford :  Ruth  Jenness, 
born  April  14,  1876,  graduated  from  the  State  Normal  School 
in  Worcester,  and  is  now  a  teacher  in  the  Worcester  Schools ; 
Edgar  Alden,  born  November  18,  1877,  attended  school  in  Strat- 
ford and  in  Worcester,  and  is  a  surveyor  ;  Edith  Mabel,  born 
September  13,  1880,  attended  the  High  School  at  Bradford, 
Vt.,  and  the  State  Normal  School  at  Worcester,  and  is  a 
teacher;  Hugh  Hunter,  born  February  19,  1884,  graduated 
from  the  Stratford  High  School  in  June,  1903  ;  Ethel  Pearl, 
born  August  26,  1890,  is  a  pupil  in  school  at  Stratford,  N.  H. 

Address :   Mrs.  Guy  W.  Johnson,  Coos,  N.  H. 

The  death  of  Rev.  Charles  H.  Taintor,  D.D.,  husband  of 
Augusta  (Billings)  Taintor  (p.  341)  and  that  of  Rev.  Silenus 
H.  Fellows,  father  of  Carrie  L.  Fellows  (p.  365),  were  reported 
after  this  book  had  gone  to  press.  Mr.  Fellows  died  April  20, 
Dr.  Taintor  May  7,  1905.     Mrs.  Fellows  also  died  recently. 

Dr.  Taintor  was  the  first,  and  for  five  years  the  only,  field 
secretary  of  the  Congregational  Church  Building  Society.  He 
entered  upon  his  work  about  twenty-one  years  ago.  His  last 
report  showed  that  of  the  2,699  church  buildings  in  the  interior 
district,  the  society  had  made  grants  to  2,513,  and  that  it  had 
helped  to  erect  752  parsonages.  The  Congregationalist  says  of 
him  :  "He  has  left  behind  him  many  enduring  monuments  of  a 
busy  life  whose  motive  was  love  to  his  fellowmen  for  Christ's 
sake,  whose  faith  in  the  results  of  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel 
was  unfailing  and  whose  companionship,  long  prized,  will  be 
sadly  missed  bv  marry." 


INDEX  OF  PRESENT  RESIDENCES 


(Oread  names  arc  given.  The  numbers  indicate  the  pages  on  which 
biographies  may  be  found.  Names  of  teachers  are  preceded  by  their 
Oread  title,  as: — Prof.  C.  C.  Stearns.  Miss  Carrie  M.  Frost.) 

CALIFORNIA. 

Cloverdale. — Lizzie   Kidder.  389. 

Oakland. — Emma  R.  Babson,  55,  Maria  R.  Babsoh,  57,  Laura  T.  Strong, 

325- 
Pasadena. — Kate  L.  Tower,  283. 
San  Francisco. — Ida  E.  Conner,  333.  Anna  T.  Farnsworth,  364. 

COLORADO. 
Longmont. — Mary  Etta  Smith,  427. 

CONNECTICUT. 

Danielson. — Almira  E.  Westcott,  134. 

Hartford. — Minnie  M.  Austin.  336,  Hattie  Langdon,  304.  Mary  A.  Smith, 

125.  Libbie  B.  "fuller.  439. 
Killingly. — Ella  F.  Sayles,  421,  Lizzie  M.  Sayles.  421. 
Middletown. — Emma  A.  Manley,  400. 
Moosup. — Alice  R.  Gaskill,  374. 
Nezv   Haven. — Martha    E.    Burt,   294,    Esther   C.    Mun.sill,   410.    Clara    L. 

Thayer,  435. 
Norwich. — Emma  F.  Briggs,  343.  Caroline  P.  Raymond,  328. 
Plainville. — Jennie  L.  Eldred,  363. 
Putnam. — Susan  E.  Thurber,  287. 
South  Norwalk. — Abbie  M.  Cutler,  355. 
Stafford  Springs. — Lillian  P.  Crawford,  353. 
Stamford. — Amelia  M.  Bates.  61. 
Sufficld.— Miss  Carrie  M.  Frost.  25S. 
Wauregan. — Carrie  L.  Fellows,  365. 
Windsor  Locks. — Ida  G.  Converse,  352. 
Woodstock. — Jane  E.  Webber,  132. 

DISTRICT  OF   COLUMBIA. 

Washington. — Sarah  T.   Bugbee,  68,  Emilie  M.  Halstead,  379,  Mary  A. 
Tyler,  440.  Frances  A.  Waters,  442. 

30 


466  Index  of  Present  Residences 

FLORIDA. 

Fort  George  Island. — Hannah  B.  Peters,  117. 
Jacksonville. — Mary  L.  Tolman,  438. 
Valkaria. — Olive  Clark,  193. 

GEORGIA. 

Atlanta. — Miss  Harriet  E.  Giles,  241. 

Augusta. — Mary  J.  Clark,  74,  Essie  Davids,  194. 

ILLINOIS. 

Cairo. — Kate  Barry,  189. 

Chicago. — Sylvia    K.    Adams,    52,    Augusta    Billings,    341,    Charlotte    A. 

Litchfield,  106,  Abbie  F.  Lovell,  290,  Mr.  James  William  Pattison, 

155,  Ella  F.  Ross,  419. 
Danville. — Nellie   S.   Loring,  398. 
River  Forest. — Elizabeth  M.  Hodge,  274. 
Utter  Alton. — Mary  E.  Stall,  222. 

INDIANA. 

Gallaudet. — Charlotte  S.  Hobart,  100. 
Peru. — Ellen  Walker,  441. 

IOWA. 

Burlington. — Martha  G.  Williams,  331. 
Cedar  Rapids. — Kate  W.  Hervey,  97. 
Charles  City. — Maria  L.  Clinton,  76. 
Des  Moines. — Josephine  C.  Spinney,  429. 
Dubuque. — Miss  Carrie  D.  Fuller,  259. 

KANSAS. 

Kansas  Lily. — Marcia  Leland,  396. 
Ottawa. — Maria  A.  Kittredge,  392. 
Pardee. — Mary  J.  Willis,  446. 

MAINE. 

Auburn. — Eliza  l'>.   Hooper,  101. 

Bangor. — Jennie  A.  Philhrook,  321. 

Belfast.     Addie  M.  Bird,  341.  Florence  A.  Hawkins.  382. 

Kennebunk. — M.  Evalyn   Howe,  308. 

Portland.    -Abbie  S.  Russell,  420. 

South  Paris. — Addie  Q.  Mathews,  405. 

Waterville.  -Prof.   E.  W.  Mall,   k.i,  Ella  P.  Marston,  402,  Elisabeth  B. 

Philbrick,  214. 
Winterport. — Jane  M.  Chick,  461. 


Index  of  Present  Residences  467 

MARYLAND. 
Hyattsville. — Ellen  F.  Capron,  70. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

Amherst. — Harriet  M.  Hamilton,  96. 

Athol. — Lula  M.  Sly,  304. 

Attleboro. — Annie  Newcomb,  213. 

Auburn. — Hannah  Bond,  342. 

Auburndale. — Emma  E.  Davis,  196,  Harriet  B.  Davis,  358. 

Barre. — Loura  F.  Ainsworth,   188,  Mary  Ellsworth,  364,   Mrs.  Mary  B. 

Grosvenor,  23^  Elizabeth  Lees,  396,  Marianne  Russell,  420. 
Barre  Plains. — Mary  R.  Adams,  279,  Ellen  A.  Mahoney,  399. 
Boston. — Helen  E.  Aldrich,  53,  Miss  Mary  E.  Brigham,  250,  Mrs.  Alma 

E.    Curtis,   28,    Etta    E.    DeLand,   333,   Emma    M.    Galon,   374,    M. 

Cordelia  Loring,  106,  Helen  M.  Wood,  32^. 
Brighton. — Lizzie  M.  Loudon,  212. 
Brockton. — Julia  M.   Ball,  60,  Abby  Leach,  297,  Anna  Leach,  298,  Edith 

Leach,  395,  Louise  A.  Packard,  184. 
Brook  field. —Annie    E.    Brown,    346,    Sarah    A.    B.    Crossman,    78,    Belle 

Forbes,  369. 
Brookline. — Exie  Baker,  59,  Nettie  R.  Beebe,  340,  Annie  L.  Bisco,  342, 

Susanna  B.  Brigham,  66,  Marietta  C.  Carr,  71,  Ellen  M.  Clifford, 

76,  Ella  M.  Eames,  84,  Martha  Fullam,  372,  Carrie  L.  Hammond, 

380,    Helen    F.    Howe,    101,    Harriet    M.    Humphrey,    103,    Harriet 

Westbrook,  133,  S.  Maria  Westbrook,  134. 
Cambridge. — Jane  Bullard,  69,  Mary  Coes,  330,  Ella  M.  Eddy,  288,  Mi>-> 

Mary  C.  C.  Goddard,  260,  Belle  B.  Mackintire,  399. 
Chariest  own. — Annie  E.  Willard,  445. 
Charlton  Depot. — Anna  F.  Hammond,  380. 
Chelsea. — Lucy   H.   Taylor,   128. 
Clinton. — Helen  P.  Butterick,  348. 

Dorchester. — Elizabeth  A.  Clapp,  71,  Mary  S.  Clapp,  71. 
Duxbury. — Pamelia  A.   Fitch,  368,  Fraulein   Franzisca  W.  Vagt,  37. 
Enfield. — Dora  H.  Gross,  379. 
Everett.— Ella  S.  Hill,  383. 
Fairhaven. — Mary  G.  Bancroft,  318. 
Fall    River. — Susan    Borden,    64,    Mr.    S.    W.    Bowen,    163,    Helen    B. 

Segar,  423. 
Fitchburg. — Miss   Minerva   Cushing,  29,   Rosa   Heywood,  98,  Louise   H. 

Wood,  139. 
Framingham. — Emma  A.  Harding,  381. 
Franklin. — J.  Annabelle  Freeman,  371. 
Gardner. — Lucie  D.  Pratt.  41(1. 

Grafton. — Sarah  A.  Hale.  95,  Ella  M.  Williams.  305. 
Groveland. — Miss  Harriet  E.  Paine,  263. 
Hamilton. — Jennie  L.  Woodbury,  272. 
Haverhill. — Mattie  L.  Smiley,  333. 


468  Index  of  Present  Residences 

Holbrooh.— Ella  A.  Buff  urn,  346,  Hattie  A.  Reynolds,  285. 

Holdcn. — Marion  E.  Lakin,  211,  Ellen  L.  Williams,  138. 

Holyoke.—M\ss  Elizabeth  Clark.  254,  Hattie  S.  Goss,  377. 

Hopedale. — Anna  M.  Bancroft,  293. 

Jamaica  Plains. — Alice  W.   Paine,  214. 

Kingston. — Helen  B.  Steele,  431. 

Lancaster. — Abbie  F.  Greene,  319,  Mary  A.  Marvin,  404. 

Leicester. — Hattie  Clifford,  194. 

Leominster. — Laura  S.  Merriam,  298. 

Lexington. — Annie  W.  Saville,  123. 

Lowell. — Idabel  A.  House,  3S5,  Emma  Prescott,  216,  Marietta  Wheeler, 

443- 
Maiden. — Hattie   S.   Horton,  206. 
Manchester. — Florence  G.  Lamson,  394. 
Mattapan. — Harriet  L.  Boynton,  166. 
Medford. — Genevieve  H.  Jordan,  388. 
Melrose. — M.  Gertrude  Greene,  204. 
Melrose  Highlands. — Sarah  L.  Bosworth,  192. 
Millbury. — H.  Louisa  Sabin,  421. 
Needham. — Miss  Helen  M.  Knowlton,  262. 
Neponset. — Augusta  P.  Banvard,  182. 
New  Braintree. — Almira  L.  Fuller,  373. 

Newton. — C.  Annah  Leland,  106,  Mary  Paige,  41 1.  Caroline  E.  Woods,  448. 
Newton  Centre. — Mary  J.  Farnam,  203.  Florence  Thompson,  223. 
Newton  Highlands. — Lizzie  M.  Newell,  410,  Grace  M.  Weston,  170. 
Nezvtonville.— Sara  B.  Eddy.  362.  Mary  E.  Howe,  385. 
Northampton. — Cora   L.   Blair,   329,   Lucelia   H.   Blood,   27$.   Alexine    M. 

Fuller,  371,  Ella  F.  Randall.  217,  Prof.  E.  B.  Story.  266,  Mr.  G.  N. 

Webber,  37. 
North  Attleboro  —  Florence  R.  Whiting,  444. 
Northboro. — Anna  M.  Seaver,  218. 
North  Brookfield.— Ida  F.  Butler,  347. 
North  Oxford.— -Ella  A.  Gleason,  376. 
Norwood. — Mary  B.  Blake,  191,  Emma  L.  Morrill,  409. 
Oakham. — Susan  F.  Fairbank,  85. 
Oxford. — Mary  Angell,  336. 
Pepperell.—Harriette  A.  Shattuck,  423. 
Petersham. — Juliette  Ayres.  337. 
Plymouth. — Ruth  W.  Stetson,  127. 
Princeton. — Ellen  M.  Gregory,  378. 

Leading. — M.  Josie   Kingman,  390,    M.    Abbie    Tilton,    1X2. 
Rockland. — Harriet   I'..  Poole,  414. 
Roxbury.     Pernella  E.  Clark,  75,   Elizabeth   M   Dickinson,  461,  Mary  C. 

Dunbar,  82,  Harriet  C.  Gray,  377-  J"s^'  M.  Taft,  434- 
Rutland.  Minnie  A.  Wedge,  312. 
Saundersville. — Cora  T.  Powers,  414. 
Sharon.— Abbie  F.  Baker,  317.  Prof.  C.  C.  Stearns,  265. 
Shrewsbury. — Alice  1..  Mcintosh,  406. 


Index  of  Present   Residences  469 

Somerville. — Fannie  A.  Boyd,  193.  Georgia  E.  Turtle,  326. 

Southboro. — Charlotte  K.   Rice.   [21. 

Southbridge. — Ella  M.  Cole.  351. 

South  Royalston. — Addie  J.  Day.  359. 

Spencer.— rMrs.  C.  A.  Elagg,  258. 

Springfield. —  Ida  A.  Aldrich.  334,  Ida  L.  Boyden.  324,  Laura  A.  Goodnow, 
91,  Sarah  E.  Quimby,  416,  Margaret  H.  Weeks.  132. 

Sterling. — Fannie  M.  Houghton,  101. 

Still  River. — Almira  S.  Burbank,  69. 

Taunton. — Belle  Southwick,  427. 

Uxbridge. — Amy  P.  Fowler.  370.  Jennie  G.  Taft.  433.  Sarah  W.  Taft,  128. 

Wakefield. — Eliza  M.  Greenwood,  289. 

Walpole. — Anna  M.  Hartshorn,  96. 

Waltham. — Janet  Gay,  89. 

Warren. — Nellie  M.  Sayles,  422. 

Webster. — Emma  Spaulding,  178. 

Wellesley. — Emily  P.  Kingsbury,  391. 

Wenhain  Depot. — Genevieve  Merrill,  408. 

West  Auburn. — Lydia  A.  Warren.  441. 

Westboro. — Ellen  M.  Belknap,  62,  Sarah  W.  Fayerweather,  86,  Abbie  F. 
Fiske,  367,  Kate  A.  Harrington,  183,  Emma  J.  Lamb,  393,  Amelia 
Merriam,  in. 

West  Brook  fie  Id. — Clara  E.  Hamilton,  379. 

1  Vest  field. — Florence  H.  Allen,  277,  Augusta  L.  Blood,  273,  Agnes  I. 
Spencer,  428. 

II 'est  Military. — Emilie  F.  Goulding,  318. 

West  Roxbury. — Minnie  A.  Larkham.  395. 

West  Somerville. — Harriet  H.  Brown.  66. 

West  Upton. — Rosa  A.  Wood,  447. 

Whitman. — A.  Josie  Reed,  417. 

Wilkinsonzrille. — S.  Lizzie  Wedge,  312. 

Williamsvillc. — Miss  Ava  Williams,  270. 

Winchester. — Mira  W.  Hurd,  103,  Annie  L.  Kemp.  208.  Celia  C.  Kemp, 
209. 

Wollaston. — Angeline  E.  Holbrook,  50. 

Worcester. — Josie  F.  Allen,  334.  Melinda  Andrews.  54.  M.  Ella  Bacon, 
3,37.  Carrie  J.  Bassett,  323,  Ella  F.  Bassett.  280,  Harriet  E.  Bemis,  62, 
Alice  J.  Bigelow.  340,  Sarah  H.  Bigelow,  341,  A.  Jeanie  Bradley. 
343.  Miss  Cornelia  A.  Brigham,  26.  Miss  Penelope  Burns,  251. 
Grace  T.  Chase,  348,  Caroline  M.  Cheney.  71,  Adelaide  S.  Collier, 
77.  Abbie  S.  Davis,  303,  Ella  M.  Dean.  360,  Emma  J.  Dickinson,  81, 
Mrs.  A.  L.  Doane,  257,  Eleanor  J.  Doane/82,  Eliza  H.  Draper,  280. 
Emma  F.  Duncan,  199,  Marion  L.  Fiske.  367,  Ella  F.  Goddard,  376. 
Ella  M.  Goss,  376,  Delia  M.  Griggs.  37S.  Nellie  M.  Grout.  94,  Etta 
L.  Hancock,  380,  May  F.  Harris,  381,  Nannie  G.  Heywood,  98.  Etta 
E.  Hill,  383.  Flora  C.  Holt.  384.  Mary  E.  Hutchinson,  387.  Lydia 
E.  Kendall.  105,  Mr.  Walter  Kennedy.  261,  Carrie  A.  King,  389. 
Sylvia  A.  Martin,  403.  Sarah  A.  Mayo.  109.  Abbie  McFarland,  406, 
Anna  P.  Merriam.  112,  Ida  E.  Merriam,  407.  Harriette  Merrifield, 


47°  Index  of  Present  Residences 

II  'orcester. — Continued. 

308,  M.  Jennie  Moran,  409,  Harriet  A.  Munroe,  114,  Alida  J. 
Norton,  411,  Abbie  Perry,  412,  O.  Frances  Phetteplace,  118,  Hannah 
D.  Pond,  118,  Marian  E.  Pratt,  416,  Abby  E.  Redding,  416,  M. 
Emma  Reed,  314,  Lizzie  S.  Rice,  217,  Mary  A.  Rockwood,  123, 
Estelle  A.  Rogers,  218,  Nellie  F.  Rogers,  185,  Alice  Scott,  423, 
Hattie  A.  Smith,  186,  Sarah  M.  Smith,  125,  Nellie  A.  Sprout,  311, 
Hattie  L.  Stearns,  431,  Ida  E.  Stratton,  302,  Isabelle  C.  Stratton, 
432,  Mrs.  Marion  J.  Sumner,  267,  Ella  M.  Tapley,  435,  Anna  C. 
Thayer,  435,  Clara  C.  Thayer,  275,  Cora  P.  Thayer,  436,  Mrs.  Eli 
Thayer,  10,  Eva  A.  Thayer,  436,  Ida  M.  Thayer,  129,  Mr.  John  A. 
Thayer,  246,  Nellie  O.  Thayer,  437,  Alice  S.  Todd,  437,  Louise  E. 
Tolman,  276,  Mary  A.  Tourtellot,  130,  Emma  E.  Upham,  283, 
Agnes  L.  Walker,  224,  Elmira  Warren,  441,  Julia  M.  Wells,  442, 
Julia  A.  Weston,  442,  Jennie  W.  Whipple,  225,  Eliza  J.  Whittemore, 
137,  Sarah  M.  Wood,  226. 

MICHIGAN. 

Adrian. — Fannie  M.  Cooper,  352. 

Battle  Creek. — -Mary  S.  Eaton,  313. 

Olivet. — Juliet  L.  Wilcox,  180. 

Romeo. — Elizabeth  B.  Dickinson,  81. 

South  Haven. — Katharine  C.  Mcintosh,  no. 

MINNESOTA. 
Anoka. — Fannie  E.  Jordan,  388,  Emeline  A.  Woodbury,  141. 
St.  Paul. — Maria  Burlingame,  326,  Emma  E.  Upham,  283. 
Minneapolis. — Susan  A.  Damon,  80,  Susie  Knowlton,  393,  Lizzie  Muzzy, 
115,  Sarah  K.  Underwood,  186. 

MISSOURI. 
Clinton. — Emma  D.  Wood,  447. 
Kansas  City. — Kate  A.  Forbush,  88. 
Sarcoxic. — Anna  Sargent,  421. 
St.  Joseph. — Susan  Murray,  115. 
St.  Louis. — Mr.  Everett  W.  Pattison,  153. 

NEBRASKA. 
(  urlis. — May  W.  Larned,  395. 
Norfolk.— -Mary  E.  Baldwin.  338. 
<>iuaha. — Abbie  C.  Jones,  320,  Rebecca  A.  Sheldon,  124. 

NEW   HAMPSHIRE. 
Coos. — Eva  R.  Martin,  464. 
Hinsdale. — Rosa  B.  Ferrin,  366. 
Manchester. —  Abbie  W.  Crosby,  354,  Isabelle  R.  Daniels,  357,  A.  Esther 

Sibley,  220. 
Milford.— Ellen  L.  Tuck,  316. 
\1i.\l1ua. — Clara  A.    Baldwin,   189. 
North  Sutton. — Adelaide  L.  Smiley,  169. 


Index  of  Present  Residences  471 

NEW  JERSEY. 

Beverly. — Sophia  H.  Arms,  44. 

Morristown. — Anna  M.  Barrett,  339. 

Newark. — Frances  A.  Greene,  327,  Emma  Lyford,  398. 

Plainfield. — Judith  Anna  Rice,  121. 

Trenton. — Elisabeth  M.  Gillette,  375. 

IV  est  field. — S.  Jane  Wheelock,  39. 

Williamstown. — Sarah  Patch,  117. 


NEW  YORK. 

Albany. — Mary  P.  Hoyt,  207. 

Blackzeell's  Island. — Mi>>  Marcy  Foster,  31. 

Brooklyn. — Juliette  M.  Allen,  292,  Laurinda  Bisco,  63,  Fannie  Leland,  321, 

Laura  L.  Thorpe,  170. 
Buffalo. — Catherine  E.  Dwight,  200,  Ellie  J.  Sumner,  432. 
Clifton  Springs. — Alary  Frances  Gilman,  46. 
Bllenville. — Susie  Metz,  408,  Ella  L.  Percival,  282. 
Geneva. — V.  Susie  Depew,  197. 
Gouverneur. — Martha  A.  Church.  302. 
Mt.  Vernon. — Mary  K.  Knight,  392. 
New  Rochelle. — Charlotte  Coles,  173. 
Nczv   York   City—  Prof.    B.   D.   Allen,  22,  Julia  D.   Blake,  64,   Lucy   A. 

Bushee,  332,  Prof.  W.  E.  Chandler,  252,  Abbie  A.  Cummings,  354. 

Emilie    Doolittle,    198.    Mrs.    Harris    R.    Greene,    245,    Isabelle    F. 

Hapgood,  205,  Ellen  L.  Jordan,  104,  Helen  Kendrick.  210,  Mary  G. 

Preston,    120,    Laura    C.    Spelman,    125,    Lucy    M.    Spelman,    127, 

Florence  M.  Whidden,  444. 
Poughkeepsie. — Abby  Leach,  297. 
Troy.- — Anna  Leach,  298. 
West  Brighton. — Elizabeth  B.  Davis,  ^57- 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 
Southern  Pines. — Ellen  A.  Eddy.  84. 

OHIO. 
Cleveland. — Helen  E.  Baker,  338. 
Dayton. — Agnes  J.  Thomas.  179. 
Springfield. — Margaret  A.  Joy,  208. 

OREGON. 
Portland. — Love  A.  Frost.  272- 

PENNSYLVANIA. 
Philadelphia.— Julia  G.  Davis,  358,  Belle  M.  Randolph.  321. 


472  Index  of  Present  Residences 

RHODE  ISLAND. 

Auburn. — Ella  S.  Shepardson,  278. 

Bristol. — Hannah  W.  Goodwin,  93. 

Carolina. — Alice  M.  Greene,  285. 

Drownville. — Hattie  L.  Lathrop,  289. 

East  Providence. — L.  Eleanor  Bliss,  164. 

Kingston. — Emma  S.  Perry,  412. 

Pawtucket. — Abbie  L.  Dispeau,  361,  Lizzie  A.  Flagg,  306,  Abbie  S. 
Fowler,  370,  Ellen  L.  Gilbert,  296. 

Providence. — Marianna  Babbitt,  2>37,  Esther  H.  Baker,  59,  Marcia  A. 
Barber,  339,  Mary  F.  Boyce,  192,  Nellie  C.  Bronson,  346,  Elizabeth 
D.  Bugbee,  67,  Annie  L.  Hartwell,  205,  Mary  C.  Rose,  330,  Huldah 
D.  Sheldon,  219,  Carrie  W.  Smith,  427,  Mary  C.  Smith,  125,  Mrs. 
Mary  E.  Tucker,  268,  Mary  C.  Wheeler,  225. 

Riverpoint. — Ellen  T.  Duncan,  83. 

Riverside. — Addie  P.  Flagg,  87. 

Tiverton. — Calista  Church,  349. 

Wick  ford. — Mary  E.  Shippee,  426,  Frances  A.  Spink,  222,  Mary  F.  Spink, 
286. 

Woonsocket. — Mary  Capron,  70,  M.  Estelle  Miller,  310. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA. 
Yankton. — Sarah  F.  Wood,  140. 

VERMONT. 
Brandon. — Virginia  H.  Rossiter,  123. 
Brattlcboro. — Minnie  C.  Fisher,  367,  Emma  Frost,  372. 
Burlington. — Mary  Keese,  388. 
Chester. — Emma  C.   Sargeant,  315. 
Rutland. — Sarah  E.  Ball,  61,  Mary  M.  Sherman,  424. 
West  Brattlebor 0. — Adelia  A.  Smith.  426. 

WASHINGTON. 
Kelso.— Nellie  M.  Philbrook,  413. 

Olympia. — Lydia  H.  Blackler,  41,  Annie  R.  Moies,  409. 
Seattle. — Emma  E.  Andrews,  188,  Abbie  J.  Smith,  426. 

WISCONSIN. 
Madison. — Esther  Farr,  51. 

FOR EIGN  COUNTR IES. 
Berthier  en  haul,  Canada. — Mile.  Louise  Amaron,  248,  Mme.  Perside  A. 

Clements,  255. 
Clarence,  Nova  Scotia. —  Hannah   Freemanj  89. 
Manila,  Philippine  Islands.-  Emma   1\.   I\<>ss,  310. 
Marsovan,  Turkey-in-Asia. — Phebe  L.  Cull,  79. 
Mayagiies,  Porto  Rico. — Sarah   I..  Merrill,  303. 


INDEX  OF  NAMES 


Both  maiden  and  married  names  are  given  as: — Boynton, 
Harriet  L. ;  Gunnison,  Harriet  (Boynton).  In  case  the  maiden 
name  of  a  married  woman  is  not  known  the  given  name  is  fol- 
lowed by  empty  parentheses,  thus  : — Andrews,  Julia  (      ) . 

Oread  names  of  the  persons  whose  biographies  occur  in  this 
book  are  italicized. 

The  abbreviation  p.  =  portrait. 


PAGE 

Abbott,  Edward   E 114 

Abbott,  Edwin  Kingman   391 

Abbott,  Elizabeth    225 

Abbott,  Frederick  Carleton  ....  114 

Abbott,  Frederick  E 114 

Abbott.  Frederick  Estes 114 

Abbott,  George  E 390 

Abbott,  Grace  Josephine    391 

Abbott,  Grace  Marion    114 

Abbott,  Harriet  Mabelle   114 

Abbott,  Harriet  (  Munroe)     ....  114 

Abbott,  Harry  Carleton   114 

Abbott,  Henry  Kingman    391 

Abbott,  Josie   (Kingman)    390 

Abbott,  Lillian  Augusta 114 

Abbott,  Nellie  Amelia   114 

Abbott,  Ruby  Hopkinson 391 

Aborn,  Rebecca  W 124,  219 

Adams,  Abigail   370 

Adams,  Andrew    52 

Adams,  Austin  F 309 

Adams,  Bertram  Rinaldo   386 

Adams,  Bessie  Lenore 386 

Adams,  Charles  Francis 386 

Adams.  Ella   (Hoyle)    386 

Adams.  Ellen   (  Mahoney  )    399 

Adams,  Harold  Earl   386 

Adams,  Hiram  S 205 

Adams,  Jemima    87 

Adams,  John  Quincy   386 

Adams.  Lena    (  Capen)    386 

Adams,  Lizzie    (Grout )    205 

Adams,  Luke   279 

Adams.  Mabel  Almira   386 

Adams,  Malvina   (Gove)    94 

Adams,  Mary  Elisabeth    375 

.  Ida  111s,  Mary  R 27Q 


Adams,  Nathaniel    52 

Adams,  Otis    52 

Adams,  Susan  French   372 

Adams,  Sybil  (Harding)   279 

Adams,  Sylvia   King   ^_5 

Adams,  Sylvia   (King)    52 

Adams,  Thomas  Dwight    94 

Adams.  Thomas  Gove   94 

AinsworthjProf.  Henry  L.  235,237. 

247 

Ainsworth,  Laura  F 188 

Alden,  Clara  Louise    398 

Alden,  George  1 397 

Alden,  John    (1620)    6,125,129, 

129,  1S7,  430.436 

Alden,  Mary  Frances    398 

Alden,  Mary  (  Lincoln  )     397 

Alden,  Rev.  Noah 6 

Alden.  Ruth    6,  129 

Aldrich,  Adaline  A 304 

Aldrich,  Alice  M 194 

Aldrich,  Andrew  J 334 

Aldrich.  Auretta   (Roys)    334 

Aldrich,  George   252 

A  Id  rich,  Helen  E 53 

Aldrich.  Ida  A 334 

Aldrich,  Joseph  S 339 

Aldrich,  Lois    120 

Aldrich,  Lucy   252 

Aldrich,  Marcia  (Barber)    339 

Aldrich,  Susan  A 339 

Aldrich,  Thomas  E 339 

Alexander.  Adin    463 

Alexander,  Emma    463 

Alexander,    Hester    (Lovewell)  463 

Alexander.  John    463 

Alexander,  Lucie    463 


474 


Index  of  X anics 


Alexander,  Martha    433 

Allen,  Abby  Louise  171 

Allen,  Adelbert  L 319 

Allen,  Agnes    171 

Allen,  Albert  Salisbury   .  . 2 1 ,  22,  248, 

255 

Allen,  Alice  Miller   171 

Allen,  Alvan    22, 22 

Allen,  Avery  M 277 

a  I  lie  11,  Benjamin  Dwight  .  .2,1,22,  54, 

137.  145,  252,  255,  362 
Allen,  Benjamin    Lincoln    Way- 
land    137 

Allen,  Caroline    (Hills)    172 

Allen,  Charles  Albert    .  ...  22,  248,  348 

Allen,  Charles  Albert,  Jr 348 

Allen,  Charlotte   Jay   137 

Allen,  Chester   Salisbury    348 

Allen, Clara  F 188 

Allen,  Elisha  Dwight  54 

.  lllen.Mrs.  Eliza  Ann.  .228,  236,  237, 

248 

Allen,  Eliza  (Cole)    22,248 

.  {lien,  Eliza  Gertrude    334,  334 

Allen,  Eliza  Salisbury    137 

Allen,  Eliza  (White)    23,  137 

Allen,  Emilie   (Goulding)    319 

Allen,  Ethan   12,  284 

Allen,  Ethel  Clara   171 

Allen,  Fannie  (Millet)    248 

.  {lien,  Florence  H 2JJ,  277  p 

Allen,  Florence    (Taylor)    348 

Allen,  Frank  Lincoln    .  .  .22,  248,  348 

Allen,  Grace  (Chase)     24S,  348 

Allen,  Grace  Walker    349 

Allen,  Grace  Weston    171,  464 

Allen,  Grace  (Weston)    171,452,455, 

455 

Allen,  Helen   (Carrington)    ....  277 

.  \llen,  Helen  M 284 

Allen,  Helen  Spencer    172 

Allen,  Isabel    (Harrington)    ...  no 

Allen,  James   397 

.Allen,  James  White   137 

Allen,  Jane  Barnes   137 

Allen,  Jesse    397 

Allen,  John    137 

Allen,  John  Weston  171 

Allen,  Josiah  Waite  [88 

Allen,  Josic  F 334 

Allen,  Julia  Emma   335 

.  \llen,  Juliette  M 292 

Allen,  Luanna    273 

Allen,  Lucy  (Flagg)     .  .  .292,  334,  334 

Allen,  Lucy  (  Salisbury)     22,  22 

\  1 1  <  1 1 .  Lydia    (  Wadley)    74 

\  1 1  c -i  1 .  Mabel    137 

Allen,  Maria     31,17 

.  {lien,  Marl  ha   L 54 


PAGE 

Allen,  Mary  Harville    349 

Allen,  Mary  Salisbury    248 

Allen,  Nancy   (Hinds)    188 

Allen,  Oril   (Merrick)    54 

Allen,  Rachel  Russell   246 

Allen,  Robert  Chase  348 

Allen,  S.  C 74 

Allen,  Sarah   (Murray)    284 

Allen,  Walter   (of  Newbury)  ..  188 

Allen,  Walter    171, 455 

Allen,  Walter  Hinds   171 

Allen,  Willard  E 292,  334,  334 

Allen,  William  G no 

Allerton,  Isaac    397 

Ailing,  Alice    246 

Allison,  Mrs.  Eleanor  166 

Amaron,  Annette    (Cruchet)    ..  248 

Amaron,  Rev.  Daniel    248,  255 

Amaron, Louise  237,  24S,  255 

Amaron,  Perside    255 

Ames,  Ann  C 380 

Amidon,  Charles  J 335 

Amidou,Mary  Elisabeth   335 

Amidon,  Mary    (  Harvey)    335 

Ammidown,  Adelia    351 

Amory,  Mrs.  William 161 

Anderson,  Lucy  B 463 

Andrews,  Charles    336 

Andrews,  Charles  Curtis     225 

Andrews,  Dolly  (Houghton)    ..  188 

Andrews,  Elmeda    375 

Andrews,  Emma  Edith   188 

Andrews,  Eva    336 

Andrews,  Franklin  Curtis   225 

Andrews,  Grace  Lillian  225 

Andrews,  Jennie    (Whipple)    ..  225 

Andrews,  John  Allen    54 

Andrews,  Julia   (      )    336 

Andrews,  Lucy  Eleanor   225 

Andrews,  Lulu    (Randies)    ....  225 

Andrews,  Lydia   343 

Andrews,  Melinda    54 

Andrews,  Melinda  (Dresser)   ..  54 

Andrews,  Willard    188 

Angell,  Charles  A 336 

Angell,  Mary   336 

Angell,  Alary   (Bigelow)    336 

Angier,  Ardelia    55 

.  Ingier,  Ellen  M 55 

Anthony,     Harrington     Tilling- 

hast  290 

Anthony,  Hattie   (Lathrop)    ...  290 

Anthony,  Louise   290 

Anthony,  ( )rrin   S 290 

Anthony,  Ruth  Lathrop  290 

Arms,  Aaron    23,  2  \,  44 

Arms,  Eliza   (Hapgood)    24,44 

.  I /■  ins,  Elizabeth  Grout   ...  .20,  20,  23 
30p,45 


Index  of   Xante 


475 


PAGE 

.  trms,  St>p!iid  Holland   .  .  [6,  ././.  45  p 

Arms,  William    24 

Armsby,  Amos  67 

Armsby,  Mary  (Brown)    67 

Armsby,  Sarah  Elizabeth  .  .  .312,  312 

Arnold,  Gov.  Benedict   412 

Arnold,  Joanna   202 

Arnold,  Lucy   272,  292 

Arnold,  William    202 

Ashley,  Emma  (Giles)    375 

Aspinwall,  Julia  N 79 

Atherton,  Humphrey    72 

Atwood,  Amanda  218 

Austin,  Emily   (King)    336 

Austin,  Dr.  James  Harvey 336 

Austin,  Minnie  M 336 

Avery,  Ruth    461 

Ayer,  Caroline  (Gorham)    51 

Ayer,  Elizabeth   Garland    21,  51 

Ayer,  Rev.  Oliver   51 

Avers.  Eliza   281 

Avers,  Rebecca  A.  A 78 

Ayres,  Charlotte    (Foster)    ....   337 

Ayres,  Isaac 337 

.lyres.  Juliette  337 

Babbitt,  Lydia    (Perry)    337 

Babbitt,  Marianua    337 

Babbitt,  Pliny  H 337 

Babson,  Emeline  (Rogers)   ...55,57 

Babsou,  Emma  R 55,  57 

Babson,  Maria  Rogers  57 

Babson,  Nathaniel    55,  57 

Bachelor,  David    57 

Bachelor,  Joel,  Jr 57 

Bachelor,  Joseph    57 

Bachelor,  Laura  (Goldthwait)  .  57 
Bachelor, Laura  Jane  .  . . .v,  58  p,  59 
Bachelor,  Maria  F ranees  .  .  .58  p,  59 
Baehmann,  Mile.  Marie  145,146,160 
Bacon,  Angenette   (Morris)    ...   337 

Bacon,  George  337 

Bacon,  M.  Ella   337 

Bagley,  Mary  C.  E 306 

Bagley,  N.  G 306 

Bailey,  Emma   (  Manley)    401 

Bailey,  J.   William    401 

Baker,  Abbie  F ranees  317 

Baker,  Antoinette  J 442 

Baker,  Betsy  (Metcalf)    338 

Baker,  David   Sherman    317 

Baker,  Elizabeth    (Noyes)    338 

Baker,  Esther  Hinckley  59,  67 

Baker,  Esther   (Hinckley)    59 

Baker,  E.rie    59 

Baker,  Experience   (     )    60 

Baker,  Ezra  Howes 59 

Baker,  George  William 125 

Baker,  Gertrude  Eleanor   125 


I'AGE 

Baker,  Harriet  (  Humphrey  )     ..    103 

Baker,  Harriet  M 79 

Baker,  Harvey  Humphrey 103 

Baker,  Helen  Elisabeth   338 

Baker,  James   103 

Baker,  James   Eliot    103 

Baker,  Joel  Metcalf   338 

Baker,  Joseph  D 85 

Baker,  Judah    59 

Baker,  Marion   (Fairbank)    ....     85 

Baker,  Mary  (Smith  )    125 

Baker,  Mary  (Waite)    317 

Baker,  Willard   Humphrey   ....    103 

Baker,  William  E 125 

Baldwin,  Amanda    (Hobbs)    ...     60 

Baldwin,  Arba  Stearns  447 

Baldwin,  Bertha  May   447 

Baldwin,  Clara  Amelia  189 

Baldwin,  David    60 

Baldwin,  Ellory  Albee    447 

Baldwin,  Emelyn  Wood   447 

Baldwin,  Francis   Marsh    447 

Baldwin,  Hattie  Anna   447 

Baldwin,  Josephus    189 

Baldzvin,  Julia  R 60 

Baldwin,  Loammi  189 

Baldwin,  Mary   E 33S 

Baldwin,  Nancy  (Blanchard)   ..    189 

Baldwin,  Ralph  Wesley   447 

Baldwin.  Rosa  (Wood)    447 

Ball,  Cynthia    296 

Hall,  Eugenia  D.  C 288 

Ball,  Julia  M 60 

Ball,  Mason    60,  61 

Ball,  Orinda   (Bogue)    60,61 

Ball,  Sarah  E 61 

Bancroft,  Anna  M.  203,  451.  452,  454, 

455,  455 
Bancroft,  Joseph   Bubier    ...293,318 
Bancroft,  Mary   G.    294.  31S.  45 1 .  454 
Bancroft,  Sylvia    (Thwing)   293,318 

Banister,  Abigail  Lyman   131 

Banvard,  Augusta  P 18 J 

Banvard,  John    249 

Banvard,  Joseph   182,  22S,  249 

Banvard,  Martha   (Prentice)    ..    182 
Barber,  Angeline    (Richmond)  .   339 

Barber.  Marcia  A 339 

Barber,  Mary  405 

Barber,  Thomas  T 339 

Barker.  Miss  A.  W 399 

Barlow,  Electa    123 

Barlow,  Joel    123 

Barlow,  Laurinda   379 

Barnes,  Caroline  E 368 

Barnes,  Lomira  S 329 

Barney,  Adele   M 348 

Barrett.  Anna  M 339 

Barrett,  Hannah  Adams   362 


476 


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Barrett,  Oliver    362 

Barrett,  Sarah    (Knowlton)    ...   339 

Barrett,  William  R 339 

Barrows,  Dr.  C.  E 270 

Barry,  Amasa  Stetson   189 

Barry,  Catherine    (Riley)    189 

Barry,  Charles    190 

Barry,  Elizabeth   (Willard)    ....    138 

Barry,  Esther   S.    (      ) 189,  190 

Barry,  Gerald    190 

Barry,  Kate    189 

Barry,  Philip    190 

Barry,  Rev.  William   138 

Barry,  William    189,  190 

Barstow,  Dr.  B.  Parker 432 

Barstow,  Benjamin    432 

Barstow,  Helen  (Steele)    432 

Barstow,  Katharine  S 432 

Bartholomew,  J.  C 420 

Bartholomew,   Marianne    (Rus- 
sell)       420 

Bartlett,  Amos    178 

Bartlett,  Caroline  A 368 

Bartlett,  Emma   (Spaulding)    ..    178 

Bartlett,  Georgia  (Slater)   179 

Bartlett,  Lucia  Rhodes  179 

Bartlett,  Robert    397 

Bartlett,  Spaulding    179 

Bartlett,  Sydney  Kingsbury    ...    179 

Bartlett,  Walter  Locke   179 

Bass,  Miss   21 

Bassett,  Aaron    280 

Bassett,  Carrie  Jen  net te  323 

Bassett,  Ella  F 238,  280 

Bassett,  Jane   (Case)    280 

Bassett,  Lucius    323 

Bassett,  Mary   (Partridge)    ....   323 

Bates,  Amelia  M 61 

Bates,  Edward  C 62 

Bates,  Eliza  H 255 

Bates,  Emma   (Duncan)    199 

Bates,  Grace    (Winch )    62 

Bates,  Laban    61 

Bates,  Lydia   (Comstock)    61 

Bates,  Theodore  Cornelius    ....    199 

Bates,  Tryphosa    200 

Battles,  David    393 

Battles,  Hannah    393 

Baumann,  Charlotta    408 

Baylies,  Abigail    (Wood)    26 

Baylies,  Nicholas    26 

Bavlies,  Susannah     26 

Beach,  Abbie  (Stillwell)   t6g 

Beach,  Annie   Stillwell    169,170 

Beach,  Clinton  Stillwell   ....  160,  464 

Beach,  Elli   A 169 

Beach,  I  telen   Elizabeth    464 

Uracil,  I  Iciiry  Lawrence  ....  I'm.  \<<\ 
Beach,  Lloyd  Elli   464 


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Beals,  Addie   (Day)    360 

Beals,  Edward  Earl    360 

Beals,  Edward  G 360 

Beals,  Harry   360 

Beard,  Ithamar  W 32 

Beard,  Marcy    (  Foster)    32 

Beebe,  Jared    340 

Beebe,  Mary   ( Stacey)    340 

Beebe,  Nettie  R 340 

Beeching,  Carol  Ellen 312 

Beeching,  Charles   Train    312 

Beeching,  Nellie    (Sprout)    ....  311 

Beeching,  Roland   Bradford    . .  .  312 

Beeching,  W.  P 311 

Beeching,  William   P.,  Jr 311 

Beekman,  Tjesck   134 

Beekman,  Wilhelmus    134 

Beelsford,  Elizabeth  Kendall    ...213 

Beers,  Laura  A 380 

Belcher,  Annie  Thayer   128 

Belcher,  Esther  (Thayer)    128 

Belcher,  George  Bradford 128 

Belcher,  Marion    128 

Belknap,  Achsah   278 

Belknap,  Ellen  M 62 

Belknap,  Lyman    62 

Belknap,  Martha   (  Morse)     62 

Bellows,  Fred    89 

Bellows,  Sarah    (Fowler)    89 

Bemis,  Caroline  (Flagg)    258 

Bemis,  Catherine   (Eveleth)    ...  62 

Bemis,  David    258 

Bemis,  Frank  W 367 

Bemis,  Harriet  Elizabeth   21,62 

Bemis,  Harry  Fiske   367 

Bemis,  Marianna    (Babbitt)    ...  337 

Bemis,  Marion    (Fiske)    367 

Bemis,  Mary  86 

Bemis,  Mary  Gove 193 

Bemis,  Theodore    33/ 

Bemis,  William   62 

Benchley,  Charles   H 409 

Benchley,  Edmund   Nathaniel  .  .  409 

Benchley,  Lieut.  Gov.  H.  W.  .  .  409 

Benchley,  Jennie   (Moran)    ....  409 

Benchley,  Robert  Charles   409 

Bennett,  Elizabeth  D 102 

Bennett,  Helen  (Howe)    101 

Bennett,  Helen  M 101 

Bennett,  Henry  D 101 

Bennett,  Stephen  D 101 

Bennett,  Stephen  H 101 

Benoit,  Julia   (Wells)    442 

Benoit,  Oliver  A 442 

Benson,  Eugene    Huntington    .  .  223 

Benson,  Helen   (Sumner  )    2_'3 

Benson,  Mary  Sumner  223 

Bent.  Rev.   Mr 21.25 

Bernon.  Gabriel    124 


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Bernon,  Marie   124 

Beyer,  David    398 

Beyer,  Eleanor    (Sidelinger)    ..  308' 

Bidwell,  Lizzie    (  Sayles  )    422 

Bidwell,  William  F 422 

Bigelow,  Alice  J 82,  340 

Bigelow,  Alice  M 70 

Bigelow,  Amory   45 

Bigelow,  Arthur    45 

Bigelow,  Bessie   Hapgood   45 

Bigelow,  Charles    45 

Bigelow,  Charles    52 

Bigelow,  David   358 

Bigelow,  Edwin  S 189 

Bigelow,  Eleanor  (Doane)    ..82,340 

Bigelow,  Ellen   (Clifford)    76 

Bigelow,  George  C 82.  340 

Bigelow,  George  C 76 

Bigelow,  George  Clifford    76 

Bigelow,  Grace  M 76 

Bigelow,  Mary  Elizabeth    .  .  .357,  358  ' 

Bigelow,  Mary  (Hyde)    341 

Bigelow,  Mary  J 336 

Bigelow,  Miss    20,  26  I 

Bigelow,  Pauline   (  Porter)    ....    189 

Bigelow,  Robert  Amory 45 

.  Bigelow.  Samuel  T 76 

Bigelow,  Sarah  H 341 

Bigelow,  Sophia  (  Arms  )   45 

Bigelow,  Sylvia   (Adams)    52 

Bigelow,  Timothy    358 

Bigelow,  Walter    341 

Bigelow,  Walter   358 

Billings,  Augusta    341,  464 

Binney,  Elizabeth  Ann   159,  166 

Binney,  J.  Henry   144,750 

Binney,  John    166 

Binney, Joseph   160 

Binnev.  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  G.   158,  150, 

166 
Binney, Mrs.  Joseph  G.  144,150,755 

159.  166,  170 

Binney,  Mercy   (      )    166 

Binney,  Millard    160 

Binney,  Nettie   160 

Binney,  Nettie    (Smith)     160 

Binney.  Susie  (Smith)    160 

Bird,  Abbie   (Smith)    341 

Bird.  Ad  die  M 341 

Bird,  John    34 r 

Bisco, .  ideline   63,  63 

Bisco,  Alden    63 

Bisco.  Annie  Louise   84,  342 

Bisco,  Ella  or  Ellen  (  Eames  )  84,  342 

Bisco,  John  Waldo   84,  342 

Bisco,  Laurinda    63 

Bisco,  Selinda   (  Martin)    63 

Bishop,  Mary   461 

Bishop,  Tabitha   (      )    461 


Bishop,  Thomas    461 

Bissland,  Agnes  (Spencer)    ....  428 

Bissland,  James  Hope    42S 

Bissland,  James  Hope,  Jr 42S 

Blacker,  Alice  Louise  118 

Blacker,  Francis  W 118 

Blacker,  Helen  Frances   118 

Blacker,    O.    Frances     (  Phette- 

place)     1 18 

Blackler,  Lydia  Hooper  .  .20,  41.  42  p 

Blair.  Cora  Louise  329 

Blair,  E.  H 329 

Blair,  Frank  Warren 372 

Blair,  Lomira  (Barnes)    329 

Blair,  Margaret   Ami  don    ^72 

Blair,  Martha   (  Fullam)    372 

Blake,  Asa   191 

Blake,  George   64 

Blake,  Hannah    (Rockwood)    .  .     64 

Blake,  Harriet  (Harding)   191 

Blake.  Julia  D 64 

Blake,  Mary  B 797 

Blanchard,  Abby  F 346 

Blanchard,  Albert  C 346 

Blanchard,  Annie    (Brown)    ...   346 

Blanchard,  Arthur  Bush   69 

Blanchard,  Arthur  Currier     ....     69 

Blanchard,  Rev.  Charles  P 346 

Blanchard,  Clarissa    300 

Blanchard,  Cyrus    35 

Blanchard,  Ellen  (Bush)   69 

Blanchard.  Lilian  Davis   70 

Blanchard,  Nancy    189 

Blanchard,  Pauline  Louise 69 

Blanchard,  Rachel   35 

Blanchard,  Rachel  (Hawes)    ...     35 
Blanchard,  Thomas    (of    Brain- 
tree)    35 

Blanchard,  Thomas  (of  Rouen)     35 

Blanchard,  Wilder  Bush   70 

Blaney,  Benjamin   315 

Bliss,  Annie    (  Newcomb  )     214 

Bliss,  Caleb    164 

Bliss,  Hon.  Cornelius  N 105 

Bliss,  Donald   Hesses    214 

Bliss,  Edward  N 214 

Bliss,  Everett  B 214 

Bliss,  L.  Eleanor  164,  455 

Bliss,  Lydia   (Humphry  )    ...  164,  165 

Bliss,  Mary  M 424 

Bliss,  Milford  E 214 

Bliss,  Thomas  (  1580  )     164 

Bliss,  Thomas  (of  Rehoboth  )    .    164. 

165 
Bliss,  rhomas  (Rev.   officer)    ..  424 

Blood.  Augusta  L 273 

Blood,  Lemuel  B 27^ 

Blood,  Luanna    (Allen)    27^ 

Blood.  Lucelia  H 273 


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Boardman,  Mrs.  George  Dana.  .   152 

Bogue,  Orinda    60,  61 

Boice,  Eleanor    226 

Bond,  Amasa  342.  342 

Bond,  Hannah   342 

Bond,  Maria    (  Powers)    .  .  .  .342,  342 

Bond.  Martha    397 

Bond,  Martha  A 342 

Boomer,  Jemima    349 

Boomer,  Martin   349 

Boothby,  Mrs.  Helen   237 

Borden,  Almariah  T.   (     ) 64 

Borden,  Benjamin  C 64 

Borden,  Gail    4ro 

Borden,  Henrietta    (Sanford)  .  .     64 

Borden,  Jane  Frances  64 

Borden,  Mary  J 410 

Borden,  Rescom    64 

Borden,  Richard   64 

Borden,  Susan    64 

Boss,  Freelove  381 

Bosworth,  Alfred   343 

Bosworth,  Ann    (Collins)    343 

Bosworth,  David   343 

Bosworth,  Rev.  G.  W 192 

Bosworth,  Harriet    451,  343 

Bosworth,  Louisa    (Messinger)    192 

Bosworth,  Sarah    L 191,  192 

Bottomly,  Gertrude 266 

Bourne,  Eliza  Caris   297 

Bowen,  Amelia    (Richardson)..     65 

Bowen,  Caroline   6$ 

Bowen,  Ebenezer  Harris   65 

Bowen,  Florence  Gould   163 

Bowen,  Phebe   (Miller)    163 

Bowen,  Richard   427 

Bowen, Seabury  W.   ...  145,  146, 163, 
228,  228 

Bowman,  Amie  A 116 

Boyce,  Albina    (Smith)    192 

Boyce,  James    192 

Boyce,  Mary  Frances  192 

Boyd,  Abbie   (Lovell)    290 

Boyd,  Bessie  M 290 

Boyd,  Fannie  A 193 

Boyd,  John  F 290 

Boyd,  Joseph    193 

Boyd,  Leon  L 290 

Boyd,  Lulu  P 290 

Boyd,  Mabel  A 290 

Boyd,  Mary    (  Bemis)    193 

Boyd,  Robert   193 

Boyd,  Robert    (of   Antrim)....   193 

Boyden,  Arthur  R 218 

Boyden,  I  )avid,  Jr 218 

Boyden,  Delia  (  Taylor)  324 

Boyden,  Edith  R 218 

Boyden,  Estelle   (Rogers)   218 

Boyden,  Ethel   (  Brooks)    21S 


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Boyden,  Frederick    324 

Boyden,  Ida  Louise,  324,  451,  452,  455 

Boyden,  W.  Thane 218 

Boynton,  Abraham    166 

Boynton,  Elizabeth  (  Binney)  159,  166 

Boynton,  Federal    159,  166 

Boynton,  Harriet  L.   .  .  .159,  166,  451, 
452, 455,  455 

Boynton,  John   166 

Brackett,  Sarah  395 

Bradbury,  Eliza   (Hooper)    ....    101 

Bradbury,  Col.  J.  H 101 

Bradford,  Governor 127,  448 

Bradish,  Helen  359 

Bradley,  A.  Jcanie   343 

Bradstreet,  Anne  Dudley  108 

Bradstreet,  Governor    108 

Bradt,  Benjamin  N 438 

Bradt,  Mary   (Tolman)    .  . .  .438,  454 

Brainard,  Amos  La  Gu 193 

Brainard,  Chester  Nathan   194 

Brainard,  L.  G 193 

Brainard,  Olive    (Clark)    193 

Braman,  Apollos  G 195 

Braman,  Essie   (Davids)    195 

Braman,  Louise    185 

Braman,  Thaddeus  Davids   ....    195 

Branscomb,  Arthur    65 

Branscomb,  Charles   17 

Branscomb,  Josephine  Edna  ...     65 
Branscomb,  Sarah    (Chapman)  .     65 

Brayton,  Rev.  D.  L 331 

Brayton,  Mary  M 330 

Breed,  Ethel  Abbot   355 

Breed,  Florence  Curtis 355 

Breed,  Mary  (Curtis)    355 

Breed,  William  H 355 

Brenan,  Charles  Heath  420 

Brenan,  Edward  C 420 

Brenan,  Ella  (Ross)    420 

Brenan,  Frances  McBeath 420 

Brewster,  Elder   59,  127 

Briggs,  Anthony  T 288 

Briggs,  Christina    (Knight)    ...   345 

Briggs,  Ella   (Eddy)    288 

Briggs,  Emma  F 343 

Briggs,  Evelyn  C 344 

Briggs,  Ezra    345 

Briggs,  1  larriet  Brown  133,  134 

Briggs,  Ira  G 343 

Briggs,  Jonathan    344 

Briggs,  Lucius  344 

Briggs,  Lydia   (Andrews)    343 

Briggs,  Marion  J 345 

Briggs,  Mary  (Preston)    120- 

Briggs,  Mary  (Tift)   344 

Briggs,  Russell   Eddy  288 

Briggs,  Sara  Marie 288 

Briggs,  Walter   120 


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479 


PAGE 

Briggs,  Walter  Preston   120 

Brigham.  Annah  E 66 

Brigham,  Charles    26 

Brigham,  Charles    66 

Brigham,  Charles    250 

Brigham.  Capt.   Charles   66,  308 

Brigham,  Cornelia  A.   . .  .3,  20,  26,  54 

Brigham,  Margaret  112 

Brigham,  Maria   Caroline    ..308,309 

Brigham,  Mary  E 237.  250 

Brigham,  Captain  Samuel    26 

Brigham,  Dr.   Samuel   412 

Brigham,  Sarah    392 

Brigham,  Sarah    (Prentice)    ...     26 

Brigham,  Susanna  B 66 

Brigham,  Susannah   (Baylies)..     26 

Brigham.  William   26 

Branson.  Isabel    237.  251 

Bronson,  Mary   (Chaplin)   ..251,346 

Branson,  Nellie  C 251,  346 

Bronson,  Rev.  Samuel  J.   ...251,346 

Brooks,  Abbie  E 69 

Brooks,  Anna  (Merriam  )    112 

Brooks,  Cordelia   (Loring)    ....    107 

Brooks,  Ethel  A 218 

Brooks.  Frederic  Manning   ....    107 

Brooks,  Jane   (Bullard)    69 

Brooks,  Jennie  F 69 

Brooks,  Joshua  Loring 107 

Brooks,  Kate  (Glover)    107 

Brooks,  L.  E 112 

Brooks,  Louise  (Bruce)   107 

Brooks,  Lyman  Beecher    107 

Brooks,  Lyman  Loring    107 

Brooks,  Margaret  Cordelia    ....    107 
Brooks.  Margaret    (Robinson)  .    107 

Brooks.  Sumner  A 69 

Brooks,  Sumner  J 69 

Brown,  Alethea  M 385 

Brown, Annie  E 346 

Brown,  Chad   201 

Brown,  Elizabeth   (Evans)    ....     66 

Brown,  Elvira   (Goodell)    306 

Brown,  Hammond   346 

Brown, Harriet   Hastings    66 

Brown,  Hattie  (Horton)   207 

Brown,  Jason   P 207 

!  '.re  iwn,  John  Carter   17 

Brown,  John  Frost   66 

Br<  iwn,  J<  mas    306 

Brown,  Josie  E 306 

Bn  iwn,  Martha  S 313 

Brown,  Martha  Waldo    161.  204 

Brown,  Mary  A 6/ 

Br<  iwn,  Rocksa  (     )   346 

Brown,  Rosa   (Heywood)    98 

Brown,  Susan    413 

Brown,  William    385 

Brown,  Major  William  0 98 


PAGE 

Browning,  Almira    135 

Browning,  Mary  Ann   423 

Bruce,  Catherine    266 

Bruce,  Louise   107 

Bryant,  Algernon   Sydney   386 

Bryant,  Julian  C 326 

Bryant,  Maria   (Burlingame)    ..   326 

Bryant,  Mary   (  Howe)    386 

Bryden,  Annie  Lilias    446 

Bryden,  Annie  (  Willard  )     44O 

Bryden,  Edmund   G 446 

Bryden,  Mabel    446 

Bryden,  Willard  Henry    446 

Buckingham.     Abbie      (  McFar- 

land)    406 

Buckingham,  Alice  Perkins  ....   406 

Buckingham,  Duke  of 315 

Buckingham,  Florence  Edith  .  .  406 
Buckingham.  George  Beecher  .  .   406 

Buckingham,  Harold  Paul 406 

Buffum.Ella  A 346 

Buff um,  Louisa   (Pitts)    346 

Buffum,  Moses    346 

Bugbee,  Elizabeth  Dorrance,  21,  42  p, 

59.  67.  449.  452.  454.  455.  455 
Bugbee.  Elizabeth  (Dorrance)   .     68 

Bugbee,  Henry  K 117 

Bugbee,  James    68 

Bugbee,  James  Henry  67 

Bugbee,  Maria   (Potter)    67 

Bugbee.  Sarah   (Patch)    117 

Bugbee,  Sarah  Tully  68 

Bull,  Gov.  Henry   412 

Bullard.  Betsy   (Howe)    39.69 

Bullard,  Elias    39,  69 

Bullard.  Ellen    39 

Bullard,  Franklin    238 

Bullard,  Jane   69 

Bullard.  Mari    118 

I  Willis.  Ina  J 124 

Bumstead,  Eveline  L 406 

Bumstead,  Joseph    406 

Burbank,  Aaron  69 

Bui-bank,  Almira   S 69 

Burbank.  Chloe   (Stevens)    69 

Burbank,  Sarah  Maria   389 

Burden,  Catherine   431 

Burdick.  Carrie  L 238 

Burdick.  Mrs.  Julia   238 

Burleigh,  Charles  C 334 

Burleigh,  Charles  C,  Jr 334 

Burleigh,  Gertrude  Florence  . .  .   334 

Burleigh.  Ida  (Aldrich)   334 

Burlingame,  Harris    326 

Burlingame.  Jane    370 

Burlingame.  Maria    326 

Burlingame.  Sarah  (  Warren)  .  .  326 
Burns,  Hannah  (Clement)  ....  268 
Burns.  Mary  E 268 


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Burns,  Penelope    .  .  .237,  237,  239,  251 

Bums,  Robert    268 

Burns,  William   268 

Burt.  Alfred  Ely  294 

Burt,  Elizabeth  (Lincoln)    294 

Burt,  Martha  Elizabeth    237,  294 

453-  453-  454-  455 

Burt,  Sarah   33* 

Bush,  Clarissa   (Gibson)    69 

Bush,  Ellen  Eliza   69 

Rush,  Wilder    69 

Bushee,  Harriet  (Mowry)   ..2^2,332 

Bushee,  James   237,  251,  332 

Bushee,  Lucy   (  Aldrich)    252 

Bushee,  Lucy  Anna   252,  332 

Bushnell,  Rev.  George  5 

Butler,  Angeline   (Rindge)    ....   347 

Butler,  Eliza    48 

Butler,  Ida  Frances 347 

Butler,  Philip  Miles 347 

Butterheld,  Oscar  181 

Butterfield,  Rebecca  Damon    .  .  .   445 
Butterheld,  Sarah  (Reynolds)..    181 
Butterick,    Elizabeth    (Richard- 
son)       348 

Butterick,  Helen  P 348 

Butterick,  J.  S 348 

Buttrick,  Albert    299 

Buzzell,  Alice  (Bigelow)   76 

Buzzell,  J.  William   76 

Calver,  Arthur  W 442 

Calver,  Frances  (Waters)   442 

Calver,  Henry    442 

Campbell,  Jesse   208 

Campbell,  Margaret   (Joy)    ....   208 

Capen,  Lena   386 

Capron,  Caroline  M 10,  129,  246, 

275.  435:  436.  436 
Capron,  Caroline  (Silsby)   ....70,70 

Capron,  Collins    70,  70 

Capron, Ellen  Prances  2,70 

Capron,  Hannah  K 162 

Capron,  Mary   70,  99 

Capron,  Rebecca   .  .2,  3,  20,  21,  26,  140 

Carleton,  Amy 104 

Carleton,  Henry    104 

Carleton,  Mary    104 

Carleton,  Mary  (Jenkins)   104 

Carr,  I  [enry  \Y 71 

(  'tirr.  Marietta  C 71 

Carr,  Martha   (Curtis)    71 

Carr  (Rhode  fsland  family)  ...   381 

Carrington,  Helen  M 277 

Carroll,  Emma   (  Briggs)    344 

Carroll,  George  Wyman    344 

Carroll,  George  Wyman,  Jr.   ...  344 

<  iarstens,  Mons.  1 1.  W 20 

'  !arter,  Emily 318 


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Carter.  Joshua   318 

Carter,  Rev.  Thomas 315 

Case,  Jane 280 

Chace,  Miss    161 

Chadwick,  Calvin    113 

Chadwick,  Herbert 113 

Chadwick,  Leslie    113 

Chadwick,  Lewellyn    113 

Chadwick,  Mabelle  113 

Chadwick,  Mary   282 

Chadwick,  Mary  (Milliken)    ...    113 

Chamberlain,  Maria  A 240,  278 

Chamberlain,  Tryphena    320 

Chandler,  Anna  (Souther)    ....   253 

Chandler,  Charles  Colby   359 

Chandler,  Edward  Herman  ....     90 
Chandler,  Emily  (Goodnow)    ..     90 

Chandler,  Frances  Woods   253 

Chandler,  Gladys  Winthrop    ...   359 

Chandler,  Helniz  Bigelow 359 

Chandler,  Jennie   (Young)    ....     91 

Chandler,  Julia   (Davis)    359 

Chandler,  Mary  (  Woods  )   253 

Chandler,  Rita  (  Warded  )    90 

Chandler,  Robert  Woods  253 

Chandler,  William  E.   .  .236,237,  252 
Chandler,  William  Goodnow    .  .     90 

Chandler,  William  H 90 

Chandler,  William  Woods 253 

Chandler,  William  Young 91 

Chaney,  Anna  A 79 

Chapin,  Judge    8 

Chapin,  Mary  Abigail   85 

Chaplin,  Mary   251,  346 

Chapman,  Sarah    65 

Charlemagne    93 

Chase,  Acquilla   52 

Chase,  Dolly   (Gardner)    429 

Chase,  Grace  Theresa   248,  348 

Chase,  Hezekiah    429 

Chase,  Miss  J 20 

Chase,  Joseph   348 

Chase,  Josephine    429 

Chase,  Mary  Anne  114 

Chase, Minnie  Anna  Burgess...  327 

Chase,  Rachel    ( Harville)    3-|S 

Chatterton,  Ama  (Mazuzan)    ..  463 

Chatterton,  Fenimore    463 

Chatterton,  G.  H 463 

Chenery,  Aloney   80 

Cheney,  Caroline  M 71 

Cheney,  F.dson  D 71 

Cheney,  Margaret    193 

Cheney,  Sarah   (Shattuck)    71 

Chester,  Florence  H 71 

Chester,  I  tarry  C 71 

Chester,  Mabel  C 71 

Chester,  Marietta  (Carr)   71 

Chester,  Mitchell  S 71 


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Chester,  W.  Murray  71 

Chester,  Walstein  R 71 

Chick,  Elisha    461 

Chick.  Jane  M 461 

Chick,  Ruth    (Avery)    461 

Child.  Alice  E 61 

Child.  Lucy  R 390 

Child,  Lydia  Maria 5 

Childs.  Albion  K.  P 254.  349 

Childs,  Bertram  Davis  196 

Childs,  Emma  (  Davis  )    196 

Childs,  Jacob    196 

Childs.  Mrs.  Lucy  .Inn.  .235.  23S.  254 

Childs.  Lucy  (  Kyes  )    254,  349 

Childs,  Mary  S 420 

Childs.  Naomi   254.  340 

Chilton,  James 397 

Chittenden,  David  Clapp   351 

Chittenden.  Julia   Ingraham    ...   351 

Chittenden,  Mary  Tucker 351 

Chittenden,  Maude    (Foster)    .  .   351 

Chittenden,  Roger  Clapp   351 

Chittenden,  Samuel  Newman  .  .  351 
Chittenden,  Sarah   (  Clapp  )    ....   351 
Chittenden,     Wentworth     New- 
man       351 

Choate  (  family  )    424 

Church.  Calista    340 

Church,  Daniel   302 

Church,  Harriet   (  Law  )    302 

Church,  Jemima  (Boomer)   ....   349 

Church, Joseph    349 

Church.  Martha  A 302 

Church,  Richard   302 

Clapp.  Carleton  L 274 

Clapp.  David    71 

Clapp,  David    72 

Clapp.  Elisabeth  A 71, 351 

Clapp,  Elizabeth  (Aver)    51 

Clapp,  George    51 

Clapp,  Gertie  Belle 274 

Clapp,  Gertrude  L 274 

Clapp,  Harriet  E 273 

Clapp,  Lucelia    (Blood)    273 

Clapp.  Mary  S 7/,  351 

Clapp.  Mary  (  Tucker)    71.  72 

Clapp.  Newman  B 274 

Clapp,  Nicholas  72 

Clapp,  Raymond  G 274 

Clapp.  Sarah  Ellen    351 

Clapp,  Warren  A 51 

Clapp,  Rev.  Warren  B 51 

Clapp,  Wyllys  W 273 

Clark,  Abijah  S 254 

Clark,  C.  C 74 

Clark,  Clara  (  Swan  )   254 

Clark,  Cynthia   (  Ball  )    206 

Clark,  Eben    193 

Clark,  Edmund   S 381 


PAGE 

Clark,  Eliza  (Hews  )   75 

Clark.  Elizabeth    237.  _35  / 

Clark.  Emma  (Harding)   381 

Clark.  Frances  Hannah   ...  .3,  20,  20, 

27,  36 

Clark,  Hannah   (  Fellows  )    27 

Clark,  Hugh   254 

Clark,  Ida  Elizabeth    296 

Clark,  James   296 

Clark,  Capt.  John  74 

Clark,  John  Elavel   74 

Clark.Julia   (Blake)    64 

Clark.  Margaret    (Cheney)    ....    193 

Clark,  Mary    201 

Clark .  Mary  J 20,74 

Clark,  Olive    193 

Clark.  Pernclla  Eliza 75 

Clark,  Robert  B 75 

Clark.  Sarah  B 328 

Clark.  Stephen    64 

Clark,  Thomas    27 

Clark.  William    201 

Clark.  William  E 296 

Clarke,  Eliza  A 45 

Clarke,  Jane    (La  Du)    45 

Clarke.  John     45 

Clary.  Eleanor   437 

Clary,  Ernest   Thayer   437 

Clary,  Nellie  (  Thayer  )   437 

Clary,  Samuel  H 437 

Clay,  Benjamin   Bourne 2>77 

Clay.  Harriet   ( Gray)    377 

Clemence,  Mary  B 376 

Clement,  Hannah    268 

Clement,  Rohert    268 

Clements, Perside   (Aniaron)    ..237, 

249.  255 

Cleveland,  Charles    378 

Cleveland.  Lvdia    Maria   Adams  378 

Clifford.  Ellen  M 76.76 

Clifford.  H attic    104 

Clifford.  Henrietta  M 76 

Clifford,  Lorinda  (Hartwell)  76.194 

Clifford,  Warner    76,  194 

Clinton,  Charles  H 76 

Clinton,  Henry    76 

Clinton,  Maria  L 76 

Clinton,  Sally  (Hill)   76 

Clough,  Abby   (Redding)    417 

Clough.  John  H 417 

Coburn,  Aaron   355 

Coburn.  Abbie  (  Cutler)    355 

Coburn,  Harrie    355 

Coburn.  J.  Milton 355 

G  ies,  Aury  (kites    324,  330 

Coes,  Es fella    324 

Coes.  Lucy  (  Gibson  )    324.  330 

Coes,  Mary 330 

Colburn,  Samuel 371 


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Cole,  Adelia  (Ammidown)   ....  351 

Cole,  Eliza  Ann  22,  248 

Cole,  Eliza  (  Prouty)   248 

Cole,  Ella  Mandana  351 

Cole,  John 248 

Cole,  Robert  Henry  351 

Cole,  Vashti   Susan    196 

Coles,  Catharine  (Dodge)   173 

Coles,  Charlotte    173 

Coles,  William  Purdy 173 

Collier,  Adelaide  Sophronia    ...     77 

Collier,  Eliza   (Humes)    77 

Collier,  Francis  A 77 

Collins,  Ann  343 

Collins,  Emma    291 

Collins,  Nellie  F 237,  238 

Collins,  William    343 

Comee,  Anna  (Barrett)    339 

Comey,  Annah  (Leland)    106 

Comey,  Aratus    106 

Comey,  Bertrand    106 

Comey,  Edith  R 106 

Comey,  Emma   (Coombs)    106 

Comey,  Irving  W 106 

Comey,  Jane  L 106 

Comstock,  Anna  S 374 

Comstock,  Lydia    61 

Conant,  Alice  Frances 431 

Conant,  Frank  S 78 

Conant,  Lillian   (Crawford)    ...     78 

Conant,  Mabel   Emily   78 

Conant,  Mary  Cornelia 78 

Conant,  Roger   78 

Condon,  Albert  0 77 

Condon,  Jennie  (Parker)   77 

Conger,  Alger  Adams 302 

Conger,  Gerrit   Smith    302 

Conger,  Kathleen    (Noble)    ....   303 

Conger,  Martha  (Church)   302 

Conger,  Mary  Hayward  Church  303 
Conklin,  Elisabeth  (Gillette)  ...  375 

Conklin,  Rev.  Judson   375 

Conner,  Ida  E 333 

Converse,  Alfred  W 352 

Converse,  Edward    352 

Converse,  Ida  Graciella  352 

Converse,  J  alia  E 77 

Converse,  Julia   ( ( )rcutt)   352 

( look,  Alice-  (  Eaton  )   71 

( look,  Annie  (  Wiswall )    51 

(  l< m  ik.  Charles  L 51 

Cook,  Francis    417 

( look,  Fred  N 71 

Cook,  Prudence    240 

Cook,  Velma    414 

Coombs.  Emma  to6 

1  ooper,  Fannie  Miller 352 

Cooper,  Rev.  James 352 

Cooper,  Mary    (Palmer)    352 


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Corbett,  Eleanor  A 333 

Cottle,  Margaret  Dunham   ..132,132 

Cotton,  John    108 

Cottrell,  A.  Frank    350 

Cottrell,  A.  Frank,  Jr 350 

Cottrell,  Calista  C 350 

Cottrell,  Calista  (  Church )   350 

Cottrell,  Gertrude 350 

Cottrell,  James  T 350 

Cottrell,  Mary    350 

Coverly,  Edward   212 

Coverly,  Lizzie   (Loudon)    212 

Cox,  Harriet  Caryl   292 

Coy,  Adaline    440 

Coyle,  Anna   56 

Coyle,  Rev.  Robert  F 56 

Craige,  Lillian  Heberton  25 

Crain,  Arthur  M 53 

Crain,  Charles  Koch   53 

Crain,  Josephine  (Koch  )   53 

Crane,  Ellery  Bicknell   120 

Crane,  Salona  (Rawson)   120 

Cranska.  Annie  Louise 345 

Cranska,  Caroline  Matilda 345 

Cranska,  Evelyn  (Briggs)   345 

Cranska,  Evelyn  Clara   345 

Cranska,  Floyd    345 

Cranska,  Floyd,  Jr 345 

Cranska,  Harriet  Atwood   345 

Cranska,  Lucius  Briggs   345 

Crawford,  Alexander    78 

Crawford,  Alexander    373, 

Crawford.       Caroline        ( Cum- 

mings)    78 

Crawford,  Elias  B 354 

Crawford,  Emily  A 78 

Crawford,  Jane   T.    (      ) 354 

Crawford,  Jannette   (Potter)    ..   353 
Crawford,    Laureston    Faulkner     78 

Crawford,  Lillian  Emily 78 

(  'rau  ford.  Lillian  P 353 

Crawford,  Maria  Louisa   ■■  -373,  373 

Craze  ford.  X  el  tie    354 

Crawford,  William     373.  373 

Crawford,  William  M 353 

Crawford,  William  S 78 

Creighton,  Emilie  419 

Creighton,  John    419 

Creighton,  May  (Robinson)   ...  419 

Crittenden,  Abram   400 

Crittenden,  William    400 

Crocker,  Alvah    29 

Crocker,  Minerva   (  dishing)    ..     29 

Crocker.  Nathaniel    397 

Cromwell,  Adelia   (Luce)    462 

( 'rosby, .  Ibbie  Willis 354 

Crosby,  Alice  Sibley  221 

Crosby,     Ahnira     Esther     (Sib- 
ley)        220 


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PAGE 

Crosby,  Everett  Uberto   220 

Crosby,  Mary   (Stevens)    354 

Crosby,  Uberto  Crocker  .  . .  .220,  354 

Cross,  Frances  F 89 

Cross,  Frank  E 89 

Cross,  Gertrude  M 89 

Cross,  Joseph  W.,  Jr 88 

Cross,  Katharine  P 89 

Cross,  Lucy  Jane  (Foster)   ....     88 

Cross,  Robert  M 89 

Crossley,  Lydia   205 

Crossman,  Henry  Wheeler   ....     78 
Crossman,  Rebecca  (Ayers)    ...     "8 

Crossman,  Sarah  A.  B 78 

Crow,  Elizabeth  (Goodwin)   .  . .  201 

Crow.  John    201 

Crowe,  Colonel    322 

Crowell.  Abby   102.  103 

Cruchet,  Annette    248 

Cull.PJiebe  L 79 

Cummings,  Abbie  A 354 

Cummings,  Caroline  R 78 

Cummings,  Emeline  (Thayer)..  354 

Cummings,  Simeon  C 354 

Currier,  Ploma    2>77 

Curtis.  Achsah  (Lewis)   354 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Alma  E.  .  .  .20,  21  p,  26, 
28,  29,  36,  63,  104 

Curtis,  Asa  F 354 

Curtis,  Charles  E 187 

Curtis,  Eliza 302 

Curtis.  Emma  (Lyford)   399 

Curtis,  Frederick  William 187 

Curtis,  Harold  Forbes   399 

Curtis,  Harriet    103 

Curtis,  Lucy  82 

Curtis.  Kenneth  Ray 399 

Curtis,  Martha  C 71 

Curtis.  Mary  Dinglcy    354 

Curtis,  Sarah  (Underwood)   .  . .    187 

Curtis,  T.  A 399 

Cashing,  Minerva  20.  29 

Cushman,  Thomas   115,  397 

Cutler,  Aaron  Goodale   355 

Cutler,  Abbie  Maria  555 

Cutler,  Gen.  John  406 

Cutler.  Lucy  (  Nourse)   355 

Cutler.  Maria  305 

Cutting,  George  Linus  382 

Cutting,  Louis   382 

Cutting.  May  (  Harris)   382 

Cutts,  Dorothy  Madison 128 

Cutts,  George  Belcher   128 

Cutts.  Harry  Madison   128 

Cutts,  Marion  (Belcher)    128 

Daggett,  Ama    405 

Daggett,  Annie  JT 356 

Daggett,  Athern    357 


PAGE 

Daggett,  Dr.  E.  A 356 

Daggett,  Ebenezer    40s 

Daggett,  Ruth  (Waters)    356 

Dame,  Mary  Esther   443 

Damon,  Alma    393 

Damon,  Aloney  (Chenery)    ....     80 

Damon,  Daniel  E 127 

Damon,  Edwin  Stetson  127 

Damon,  Ruth  (Stetson  )    127 

Damon,  Ruth  Stockbriclge    127 

Damon,  Col.  Samuel   80, 393 

Damon,  Susan  A 80 

Dana,  C.  Henshaw 239,  255 

Dana,  Eliza  (Bates)    2^ 

Dana,  John  A 255 

Daniels,  Albert  H 357 

Daniels,  Mrs.  George  F 365 

Daniels,  Isabelle  R 357 

Daniels,  Julia  (Read)   ^7 

Daniels,  Mary    194 

Darling,  Ellen  M 437 

Darling,  Newburv    80 

Darling.  Olive  (Kelly)   80 

Darling,  Susan  Caroline 2,  So 

Dauble,  Gottlieb    29 

Double,  Mrs.  Mary   ( Shaw ) .  .21,  29, 
144 

Davenport,  Charlotte  B 260 

Davenport,  James 260 

Davenport,  Capt.  Richard   260 

Davids,  Essie    149,  194 

Dayids,  Mary   (Daniels)    194 

Davids,  Thaddeus   194 

Davidson,  Henry  W 342 

Davidson,  Martha  (Bond)    342 

Davidson,  Martha  Mabel    343 

Davidson,  Mary  Elizabeth  343 

Davidson,  Vinnie  (Knight)    ....   343 

Davidson,  William  Grey   343 

Davies,  Arthur  Johnston   396 

Davies,  Dr.  C.  H 396 

1  )avies,  Charles  Leland 396 

Davies.  Frank  Everett  396 

Davies,  Marcia  (Leland)   396 

Davis, .  Ibbie  S 239, 303 

Davis.  Alfred    196,  358 

Davis,  Alice  Paine    214 

Davis,  Alice  (Paine)     214 

Davis.  Anna  B 341 

Davis,  Belle    196 

Davis.  Catherine   217 

Davis,  Catherine  S 141 

I  )avis,  Dr.  Charles  H 341 

Davis,  Chloe  (Parker)   196.358 

Davis,  Elizabeth  Bigelow 3?7 

Davis,  Ellen  H 214 

Davis,  Emma  E 196 

Davis,  Ethel  IT 341 

Davis,  George  Clinton  .  .357.  358.  359 


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Davis,  Harriet  B 358 

Davis,  Irving  Henry   203 

Davis,  Hon.   Isaac    359 

Davis,  James  C 214 

Davis,  Gov.  John    ".  .  .  359 

Davis,  Julia  Georgiana  358 

Davis,  Levinia   Bigelow    462 

Davis,  Mary  138 

Davis,  Mary  (  Bigelow)    .  . .  .357,  35§ 

Davis,  O.  J 203 

Davis,  Rebecca   (Fiske)    203 

Davis,  Royal  Keith    203 

Davis,  Sarah    271 

Davis,  Sarah   (Bigelow)    341 

Day, .  Iddie  J 359 

Day,  Elizabeth  ( Upham  )   360 

Day,  Emma  Alice 360 

Day,  Helen   (Bradish)    359 

Day,  Ida    (Boyden  )    .  .  .324,  451,  452, 

453.  455 

Day,  James   Wellington    360 

Day,  Josephus    359 

Day,  Morgan  G 324 

Day,  Pauline   B 324 

Day,  Robert  F 324 

Day,  Robert  W 324 

Day,  Winsor  B 324 

Dean,  Arthur  Benjamin  176 

Dean,  Austin  Phelps   176 

Dean,  Rev.  Benjamin  Angier  ..    174 

Dean,  Benjamin  W 360 

Dean,  Charlotte    445 

Dean,  Ella  M joo 

Dean,  Ellen    (Palmer)    174 

Dean,  Florence    176 

Dean,  Frances   (Flint)    176 

Dean,  Grace   176 

Dean,  Horace  Bunce  176 

Dean,  Matilda   (Witham)    360 

Dean,  Philip  Redfield   176 

Dean,  Rachel    1 76 

Dean,  Rosa    1 75 

Dearth,  Abbie  (  Perry)   412 

Dearth,  Alvin  S.  . 412 

de  Coigneries,  Roger  352 

DeLand,  Dr.  E.  II xu 

DeLand,  Ellen  (  Tallman  )   333 

Del  and,  Etta  li 333 

I  )elvey,  Bathsheba    410 

Demarest,  B.  li 2X3 

Demarest,  Ella  (  Percival )   283 

I  lennis,  Albert   \V 292 

Dennis,  Bertha  (Sherman)   ....   292 

I  )ennis,  I  tarriel    (Cox)    292 

I  tennis,  I. con   1 2^2 

I  )ennis,  ( 'apt.  Leonard  G 292 

I  >ennis,  Mrs 2^,1, 

I  tennis,  Sarah    mo 

Dennis,  Sarah  (Woodbury)   ...  292 


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Denny,  Grace  (  Bigelow  )    76 

Denny,  Harriet  Flint    1X7 

Denny,  Walter  J 76 

Depew,  Annie  Louise   196,  197 

Depew,  George  W 196 

Depew,  Vashti    (Cole)    196 

Depew,  I  'ashti  Susie 197 

Dewey,  Admiral  George  P 207 

Dewey,  Mary  Clinton   36 

De  Wolfe  (family)   442 

Dexter,  Agnes   166 

Dexter,  Eleanor    (Bliss)    ...165,455 

Dexter,  Gregory   165,  221 

Dexter,  Rev.  John  Mumford.  .  .  .  165 
Dickinson,    Dorothy    (Warner)     48 

Dickinson,  Elizabeth    48 

Dickinson,  Elisabeth  Bancroft .  .     81 

Dickinson,  Elisabeth  M 461 

Dickinson,  Emma  J 81 

Dickinson,  Esther  (Thayer) .  .81,461 

Dickinson,  Henry  B 81,  461 

Dickinson,     Mary     Ann     ( Tay- 
lor)     '..     81 

Dickinson,  Nathan    81 

Dickinson,  Nathaniel    48 

Dickinson,  William    48 

Dimick,  Albert  W 204 

Dimick,  Alice   (  Sherman  )    204 

Dimond, Ezekiel  Webster  ..229,255, 
256  n. 

Dimond,  Sarah  (Mason)   256 

Dinsmore,  Priscilla    104 

Dispeau,  Abbie  L 361 

Dispeau,  Abbie   (Walker)    361 

Dispeau, .  I  lice  A 361 

Dispeau,  George  A 361 

Dispeau,  John    257 

I  )ispeau,  Joseph  Edward   361 

Dispeau,  Mrs.  Katie  228,257 

Dispeau,  Mary   (Tillotson)    ....   361 

Doane,  Amos  L 257 

Doane,  M  rs.  .linos  L 235,236, 

237.  -"?7 

Doane,  Cheney    82 

Doane,  Eleanor  J 82,  340 

I  >oane,  I  >eacon  John    82 

Doane,  Deacon   John    (of    k.ast- 

ham )    2^j 

I  )oane,  Sir  John   S_> 

I  )oane,  John  428 

Doane,  Lorinda   (Green)    82 

I  inane,  Roxanna   3'") 

I  >odd,  Lucretia    87 

I  )odge,  Barnabas    30 

I  >odge,  Catharine   Clay    173 

I  )< idge,  ( Chester  Arthur  415 

I  )odge,  ( 'lira  <  Powers  )   415 

Dodge,  Rev,  I  >aniel  D 00 

I  >odge,  Frederick  A 415 


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PAGE 

Dodge,  Hannah  Perkins  ..19.20,20, 
20.  22.  24,  24  p,  30.  63,  72.  130, 

143.  U4 

Dodge,  Jane  Gay   90 

Dodge,  Janet    (Gay)    90 

Dodge,  John  Allen 90 

Dodge,  Leslie  Powers  415 

Dodge.  Sarah    (      )    30 

Doolittle,  Dr.  Adrastus   198 

Doolittle,  Rev.  Benjamin   198 

Doolittle,  Eniilie   198 

Doolittle,  Hannah    (Higbee)    ..   198 

Doolittle,  Lydia   (Todd )    198 

Dorrance,  Elizabeth 68 

/  huglasSj  Jennie  L 82 

Dow,  Neal 155 

Draper  ( family)     427 

Draper,  Edwin     280 

Draper,  Eliza  H 280 

Draper,  Harriette    (  Healy)    ....   280 

Draper,  James   280 

Draper,  John    342 

Dresser,  Melinda    54 

Dresser,  Oliver    54 

Drury.  Gertrude    93 

Drury,  Hannah    (Goodwin)    ...     93 

Drury,  Hannah  LeBaron   93 

Drury,  John    93 

Drury.  Julia    93 

Drury,  Mary  Rhodes    93 

Drury,  Rebecca  LeBaron   93 

Drury.  Samuel  S 93 

Drury,  Samuel   Smith   93 

Dudley,  Gov.  Joseph   206 

Dudley.  Patience    56 

Dudley,  Gov.  Thomas 56,  108 

Dunbar,  B.   Frank    82 

Dunbar,  Daniel    82 

Dunbar,  F.  Clifton 83 

Dunbar,  Lucy    (  Curtis)    82 

Dunbar,  M.  Lillian   83 

Dunbar.  Mary  Curtis 82 

Dunbar,  Mary  (  Dunbar)    82 

Dunbar,  Mary  (  Trefry  )     83 

Duncan  (  Scotch  family  )    315 

Duncan,  Charles   83.  199 

Duncan.  Charles   315 

Duncan,  Ellen   T 83 

Duncan,  Emma  Frances 199 

Duncan,  Mary  Carter   315 

Duncan.  Tryphosa    (  Lakin  )  .  .83,  199 

Dunham,  Donald  Austin   336 

Dunham,  Harriet    186 

Dunham,  Minnie    (Austin)    ....   336 

Dunham.  Sylvester  Clark  336 

Dunn.  James  Thompson   322 

Dunn.  Malvina    322 

Dunning,  Albert  Beach    133 

Dunning,  Albert  E 133 


PACK 

Dunning,  Emily  Beekman    133 

Dunning,  1  larriet    (  Westbrook)  133, 

.453 

Dunning,  Harry  Westbrook   ...  133 

Dunning.  Mary    (  Ward  )    133 

Dunning,  Morton  Dexter   133 

Duntoii,  -  hiiiti  Morse   237,36/' 

Dunton,  Charles  A 361 

Dunton,  Jane    ( Weeman  )    361 

Durell,  Nellie    237.  258 

Dustin,  Hannah     333 

Dustin,  Ruth    S33 

Dwight,  Catherine  Elizabeth...  200 

Dwight,  Catherine  (Jones)    ....  201 

Dwight,  Gamaliel  Lyman   200 

Dwight,  John  201 

Dwinnell,  Francis  257 

Dwinnell,  Nancy   (  Tarble)    ....  257 

Dyke,  Elizabeth   (Miller)    113 

Dyke.  Henry  A 113 

Eames,  Ella  (or  Ellen)  Maria  84.342 

Fames,  Hannah  (  Waite)   84 

Eames,  William  Alden   84 

Earle,  Abbie    203 

Earlc,  Louisa  S 42  p.  84 

Earle,  Martha   T 221 

Eaton,  Abby    (Allen)    172 

Eaton,  Alice  Carrie   71 

Eaton,  Caroline  (Cheney)   71 

Eaton,  Charles  B 71 

Eaton,  Charles  Willis    217 

Eaton,  Charlotte   224 

Eaton,  Cora  Belle    71 

Eaton,  Emma    ( Prescott)    217 

Eaton,  Florence    217 

Eaton,  Grace  Cheney   71 

Eaton.  Grace  Elizabeth    217 

Eaton.  Janet   Nicholson    172 

Eaton,  John  Nicholson 172 

Eaton,  Laura   (Stoddard)    217 

Eaton,  Martha  (Brown)    313 

Eaton,  Mary  S 313 

Eaton,  Sumner    313 

Eaton,  Willis   Prescott    217 

Eddy,  Arthur  H 346 

Eddy.Ella  M 237. -><?£ 

Eddy,  Ellen  A 84 

Eddy,  Gertrude  Briggs 346 

Eddy,  Hannah  (Barrett)    362 

Eddy,  John    362 

Eddy,  Justus    288 

Eddy,  Lucy  (Smith)   288 

Eddy,  Marion  ( Briggs)    346 

Eddy,  Norman  T 346 

Eddy.  Rhoda  (Stone)    84 

Eddy,  Samuel   (1631)    362 

Eddy,  Samuel    3"-' 

Eddy,  Samuel    84 


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Eddy,  Sara  Brown 362 

Edmunds,  Mrs 238 

Edwards,  Thomas    145 

Eichelberger,  Edward  S 218 

Eichelberger,  Miriam    (Gray)  ...218 

Eldred,  Jennie  Louise 363 

Eliot,  John   40,  72 

Eliot,  Mary   72 

Elliott,  Harriett c  A 462 

Elliott,  Harriette   (Tyler)    462 

Elliott,  Jane  E 84 

Elliott,  Moody    462 

Ellsworth,  Caroline  (Paige)   ...  364 

Ellsworth,  Henry    364 

Ellsworth,  Mary  364 

Emerson,  Rev.  Daniel 202 

Emery,  Eliza  T 291 

Emery,  Mary  Elizabeth    182 

Erwin.  Emily  H 90 

Estey,  Hannah  Flint   46 

Estey,  Mary   367 

Evans,  Elizabeth  66 

Eveleth,  Catherine    62 

Everett,  Alice  L 364 


Fairbank,  Asahel    

Fairbank,  James  Chandler 

Fairbank,  Jonathan    85,  139, 

Fairbank,  Jonathan,  Jr 

Fairbank,  Esther   

Fairbank,  Lurana  (Robinson)  .  . 

Fairbank,  Marion  Ida 

Fairbank,  Mary  (Chapin)    

Fairbank,  Susan  Fay 

Fairbanks,  Adele  Louise    

Fairbanks,  Carrie   (Fuller)    .... 
Fairbanks,  Vice  Pres.  C.  W.  .  . . 

Fairbanks,  Edward  E 

Fairbanks,  Ellen    (Williams  ) .  .  . 

Fairbanks,  J.   E 

Fairbanks,  Jennie   M 

Fairbanks,   Jonathan    (same   as 
Fairbank.  Jonathan) 

Fairbanks,  Jonathan,  Jr 

Fairbanks,  W.  Grout 

Fairbanks,  William   II 

Fales,  Augusta   (Banvard)    .... 

Kales,  Charles    M 

Farnham,  Harriet  Amelia  

Farnsworth,  Anna  Turner  .... 

Farnsworth,  Caroline    

Farnsworth,  Charles  H 

Farnsworth,  Charlotte    (Allen) 

Farnsworth,  E.  Seymour  

Farnsworth,  Judge  

Farnsworth,  Mary   (Weaver)  .. 

Farnum,  Joseph  S 

Farnum,  Lois  I  Stoddard  )  

Farnum,  Mary  J 


85 

85 

37i 

139 

1 05 

86 

85 
85 
85 
139 
259 
259 
139 
139 
259 
139 


139 
139 
139 
[83 
183 
32S 
364 
402 

'37 
137 
364 
(02 
364 
203 
203 
203 


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Farr,  Esther    51 

Farrington,  Amanda  M 371 

Farrington,  Josiah    371 

Faulkner,  Alice   (  Starr)    301 

Faulkner,  William  A 301 

Faunce,  Daniel  W 269,  455 

Faunce,  Mary   (Burns)    Tucker  269, 

455 

Faunce,  Pres/W.  H.  P 270 

Fay,  Dr.  Charles  M 365 

Fay,  Edward    54 

Fay,  Emily  E 86 

Fay,  J.  R." 86 

Fay,  Jennie  B 36s 

Fay,  Lucinda  H 423 

Fay,  Martha   (Allen)    54 

Fay,  Mary  (Bemis)   86 

Fayerweather,  John  Appleton  .  .  86 

Fayerweather,  Sarah   (Tyler)  .  .  86 

Fayerweather,  Sarah   IV 86 

Fellows,  Carrie  Louise 365, 464 

Fellows,  Hannah    2J 

Fellows,  Rev.  Silenus  H.  ...365,464 
Fellows,  Sylvia   (Newell)    ..365,4(14 

Felton,  Arthur    366 

Felton,  Caroline  Nye   307 

Felton,  Jane  C 411 

Felton,  Susie  A 365 

Ferrin,  Daniel  Fay   366 

Ferrin,  Lois   (Washburn)    366 

Ferrin,  Rosa  Bonheur.  366 

Fillmore,  Millard    160 

Finch,  Elsie  Garretson   414 

Finch,  James  Wells   414 

Finch,  Jessie   (Garretson)    414 

Findlay,  Isabella   (McRae)    ....  115 

Findlay,  Merlin  C 115 

Fisher,  Mary   (Estey)    367 

Fisher,  Minnie  C 36/ 

Fisher,  Philip    367 

Fisher,  Samuel    371 

Fisk,  Georgiana   (  Keith  )    87 

Fisk,  Jemima   (Adams  )    87 

Fisk,  Jonathan  Stow   87 

Fisk,  Lieut.  William    87 

Fiske,Abbie  Frances  367 

Fiske,  Abbie  (blastings)     382 

Fiske,  Abbie  Sawyer    382 

Fiske,  Clara    (  Wood  )    367 

Fiske,  David  L 305 

Fiske,  Ella  (Williams)  305 

Fiske,  Georgiana  Keith   305 

Fiske,  Isaac    y>~ 

Fiske,  Isabella  Howe  382 

Fiske,  Joseph  E 382 

Fiske,  Lucy  (Tourtettotte)   ....  ,M>7 

Fiske,  Marian   /.anise   367 

Fiske,  Mavida    305 

Fiske, Rebecca  Ann    203 


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Fiske.  Rebecca  Cutler   30s 

Fiske,  S.  Ellen  87 

Fiske,  Sanford    367 

Fiske,  Sarah  Jane   87,  203 

Fitch,  Ezra   37,  368 

Fitch,     Franziska     Wilhelmine 

_  (  [  'agt  )..37,  228,  23,7,  237,  237,  368 
Fitch,  Mme.  Minna  V.  (same  as 

Fitch,  Franziska  W. ) 
Fitch,  Pamclia  A.  ("Mellie")  37,368 

Fitts,  Sarah  A 427 

Flagg,  Addie  P 2,87 

Flagg,  A  lice  J 368 

Flagg,  Benjamin    88,  292 

Flagg,  Lieut.  Col.  Benjamin....   292 
Flagg, Mrs.   Caroline  A.    (Bart- 

lett) 238,255,368 

Flagg,  Caroline   (Barnes)    368 

Flagg,  David    306 

Flagg,  Emma  J 258,  368 

Flagg,  Isabella    2 

Flagg,  Joseph  \Y 368 

Flagg,  Julia  (Holbrook)    88 

Flagg,  Levi  L 368 

Flagg,  Lizzie  A 306 

Flagg,  Lucretia  (Dodd  )    87 

Flagg,  Lucy  M 292,  334,  334 

Flagg,  Lydia  Drury 95 

Flagg,  Mai  tha  M.   88,  41 1 

Flagg,  Sophia   (Haynes)    306 

Flagg,  Capt.   Stephen    87 

Flagg,  Thomas    292 

Flint,  Frances  E.  H 176 

Flint,  Rev.  Henry 201 

Flint,  Margery   (Hoar)    201 

Fogg,  Jennie    36 

Folger,  Charles  James    197 

Folger,  Judge  Charles  James...    197 

Folger,  Charles  Worth  197 

Folger,  Eliza    263 

Folger,  Ethel  Louise  198 

Folger,  Gideon    263 

Folger,  Mirabel  Depew   197 

Folger,  Paul    198 

Folger,  Susan  Worth    198 

Folger,  Thomas  Worth  197 

Folger,  Vashti    Susie    (Depew)    197 

Foote,  Bessie   447 

Foote,  Emma  (Wood)    447 

Foote,  Mary  L 447 

Foote,  William  A 447 

Forbes,  Abbie  (Newton)   116 

Forbes,  Allen  White   309 

Forbes,  Belle    369 

Forbes,  Cornelia  Brigham   309 

Forbes,  Emeline  Frances   398 

Forbes,  Esther  Louise    309 

Forbes,  George    369 

Forbes,  Harriet  A 392 


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Forbes,  Harriette    (Merrifield)  308, 

455 

Forbes,  J.   E 392 

Forbes,  Katharine  Maria   309 

Forbes,  Lucy  K 392 

Forbes,  Malcolm  Stewart  309 

Forbes,  Maria   (Kittredge)    ....   392 
Forbes,  Roxanna   (Doane)    ....   369 

Forbes,  Wilbur  E 116 

Forbes,    Judge    William    Trow- 
bridge    308.455 

Forbes,      William      Trowbridge 

Merrifield   30S 

Forbush,  Abbie  (Wears)   369 

Forbush,  Benjamin  Franklin    .  .     88 

Forbush,  Joseph  Whitman 369 

Forbush,  Kate  A 88 

Forbush,  Mary  Abbie  360 

Forbush.  Susan    (  Warren  )    .  . .  .     88 

Ford.  Alice    399 

Forrest.  Daniel  E 388 

Forrest,  Genevieve    388 

Forrest,  Genevieve   (Jordan)    ..   388 

Forrest,  Oscar  E 388 

Foster,  Abby  Kelly   80 

Foster,  Charlotte    337 

Foster,  Elisabeth    (Philbrick)  ..  215 

Foster,  Francis    88 

Foster,  Franklin    31 

Foster,  Grant  C 354 

Foster,  John  A 354 

Foster,  John  Barton    215 

Foster,  John  Marshall    215 

Foster,  Lillian    (Crawford)    ...   354 

Foster,  Lucy  Jane   88 

Foster,  Lucy  Lincoln  283 

Foster,  Lydia    294 

Foster,  Mabel  A 354 

Foster.  Marcy    20,  31 

Foster,  Marcy   (Hunting)    31 

l'<  ister,  Maude   351 

l-'i  ister,  Nancy    98 

Foster,  Reginald  428 

Foster,  Sir  Reginald   283 

Foster,  Susan    (Packard)    88 

Foster,  William   A 354 

Fowler, .  Ibbie  S 370 

Fowler,  Abigail   (Adams  )    370 

Fowler,  Amy  P 370 

Fowler,  Francis    19 

Fowler,  George  D 370 

Fowler,  Jane   (Burlingame)    ...   37° 

Fowler,  John    3/0 

Fi  iwler,  John  Milton  370 

Fowler,  Sarah    89 

Fowlis,  Baron  of I7r 

Freeland,    Henrietta    (Clifford)     76 

Freeland,  James  H 76 

Freeman.  Abby   (Johnson)    ....   387 


488 


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Freeman,  Amanda  (Farrington)   371 

Freeman,  Charles  T 387 

Freeman,  Charlotte  (Parker)   ..     89 

Freeman,  Ernest  Bigelow    226 

Freeman,  Hannah    &9,  Sq 

Freeman,  James  H 371 

Freeman.  Julia  Annabelle   371 

Freeman,  Lucy    462 

Freeman,  Margaret   (Reed)    ...   226 

Freeman,  Phila  Thayer    140 

Freeman,  Rachel 241 

Free  man,  Salome  P 89 

Freeman,  Zoeth    89 

Freileweh,  Frederick   409 

Freileweh,  John  Eastgate   409 

Freileweh,  Susie   (Metz)    409 

French,  Catharine    (Merrifield)    112 

French,  Edward  Clement 112 

French,  Rev.  Edward  W 112 

French,  Guy  Merrifield   112 

Friend,  Anna  (Coyle)    56 

Friend,  Emma  (  Babson)   56 

Friend,  Robert  Coyle   56 

Friend,  Roger  Berry  56 

Friend,  William  Hovey    56 

Friend,  William  Nathaniel     ....     56 

Frost,  Carrie  M 229,  258 

Frost, Emma    372 

Frost,  John  W 37^ 

Frost,  Love  A 372 

Frost,  Mary  (Ryan)    372 

Frye,  John    316 

Fiye,  Lydia  Smith  316 

Fullam,  Lemuel    372 

Fullam.  Martha    372 

Fullam,  Susan   (Adams)    372 

Fuller,  Albert   Kingslev    .  .  .  -373-  373 

Fuller,  Mexine  M 373 

Fuller, .  Ilmira  Louise 373 

Fuller,  Amos    373 

Fuller,  Belle  (Southwick)    428 

Fuller,  Carrie  D 238,  238,  239 

Fuller.  Clarence  Leroy  42X 

Fuller,  Genevieve  (Forrest)   ...   388 

Fuller,  Rev.  George  W 388 

Fuller,  Leander  E.  D 428 

Fuller,  Maria  (Crawford)  ..373,373 

Fuller,  Samuel    373,  373 

Fullerton, Bradford  Morton  ...     60 
Fullerton,  Jane  (Whitthorne)  . .     61 

Fullerton,  Julia  (  Ball )   60 

Fullerton,    Katharine    Elizabeth     61 

Fullerton,  Roberl   Morton   61 

Fullerton,  William  Morton   ....     60 

( rale,  Alice    80 

Gale,  \11na   80 

( rale,  ( !harles   80 

1  rale,  Fd ward    80 


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Gale,  Jane   446 

Gale,  Lucy  374 

Gale,  Marian    80 

Gale.  S.   C 80 

Gale,  Samuel    •  393 

Gale,  Susan   (Damon)    80 

Galon,  Emma  M 374 

Galon,  Joseph    374 

Galon,  Susan    (  Small )    374 

Gantc,  L.  Sophia 374 

Gardner,  Dolly  Sargent   429 

Gardner,  Perez 215 

Gardner,  Ruth    215 

Gardner,  Sarah  Irene   281 

Garfield,  Eunice    426 

Garretson,  Carlton  Goodrich  ...   414 
Garretson,  Ferdinand  V.  D.   ...   413 

Garretson,  Florence   413 

Garretson,  Jessie  Bowen    414 

Garretson,    Nellie    (Philbrook)   413 

Garretson,  Velma  (Cook)    414 

Gaskill,  Albert    374 

Gaskill,  Alice  R 374 

Gaskill,  Anna    (Comstock)    ....   374 

Gaskill,  Judge  Francis  A 375 

Gaudelet,  Prof.  Alfred  145, 161 

Gay,  A.  D 333 

Gay,  Clifford  D 333 

Gay,  E.   Jane    32 

Gay,  Etta  (De  Land)    333 

Gay,  Janet    89 

Gay,  Mary  Kennedy    32 

Gay,  Mary  ( Kennedy)     32,  89 

Gay,  Ziba" 32,89 

Gay,  Ziba,  Jr 32 

Gee,  Parson    56 

Gee,  Sally   56 

George,  Herbert  J 100 

George,  Lena    (  Williams )    100 

Gerould,  Florence    (Whiting)  .  .   445 

Gerould,  Dr.  J.  B 445 

Gibbs,  Hamilton  L 185 

Gibbs,  Louise  (Packard)   185 

Gibbs,  Mary  Celinda    125 

Gibson,  Clarissa   Davis    69 

<  ribson,  Lucy  Wvman   324,  330 

Gilbert,  Alice   (Todd)    437 

Gilbert,  Barry    191 

Gilbert,  Charles  Warren   437 

Gilbert,  Elizabeth  (  Rice)   296 

Gilbert.  Ellen  Louisa 296,  451 

Gilbert,  Ethel   ( Ogden)    191 

Gilbert,  I  Harriet    T30 

Gilbert,  I  telen    (Judson)    km 

Gilbert.  Kate    (  Barry)    190 

Gilbert,  Louis  Douglas  437 

Gilbert,  Lucia     20 

Gilbert,  May   (  Peterson  )    101 

Gilbert,  Miles  Safford  101 


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489 


PAGE 

Gilbert,  Peregrine  Bruce   296 

Gilbert.  Ruth   Alice    437 

Gilbert.  William  Baker   190 

Gilbert.  William  Candee   191 

Giles,  Elmeda  (Andrews)   375 

Giles,  Emma  A 375 

Giles,  Harriet  E. .  .228,  228,  241,  242  p 

Giles,  Samuel    241 

Giles,  William  T .375 

Gill,  Ethel   (Pervear)    296 

Gill,  James  Seel   296 

Gillette,  Ebenezer  Sherman  ....   375 
Gillette, Elisabeth  M.  (or    "Lib-     ' 

/'"'"  >     375 

Gillette.  Mary   (Adams)    375 

Gilman,  Caleb    416 

Gilman,  Hannah   (Estey)    46 

Gilman,  John   46 

Gilman,  John   (Jr.)    46 

Gilman,  Mark  Seavey  46 

Gilman.  Mary  Frances   46,  454 

Gilson,  Miss  E 237 

Gleason,  Augustine  J 376 

Gleason,  Bertha  Reynolds   286 

Gleason,  Eliza    217 

Gleason,  Ella  A 376 

Gleason,  Hattie   (Reynolds)    ...   286 
Gleason,  Mary  (Clemence)   ....   376 

Gleason,  Willard  F 286 

Glover,  Gen.  John   101 

Glover,  Kate    107 

Goddard,  Anna   (Hammond)    ..   380 
Goddard, Charlotte  (Davenport)   260 

Goddard,  Rev.  David,  Jr 260 

Goddard,  Hon.  Edward   260 

Goddard,  Ella  F 376 

Goddard,  Eugenia    (  Ball )    288 

Goddard,  Harry    380 

Goddard,  Henry    288 

Goddard,  Jennie    W 288 

Goddard,  Levi  Lincoln   380 

Goddard,  Luther  380 

Goddard ,  Mary  C.  C.   .  .228.  235.  237, 
237, 260,  453 

Godfrey,  Elizabeth  A 36 

Goldthwait,  Laura    57 

Goodell,  David    372 

Goodell,  Elvira    306 

Goodell,  Gorham  B 372 

Goodell,  Gorham  Lane   372 

Goodell.  (Miss)  L.  B 447 

Goodell,  Love  (Frost)    372 

Goodnow.  Edward  S 90 

Goodnow.  Eliza    (Whitcomb)  ..     91 

Goodnow,  Emily  Augusta  go 

Goodnow,  Emily  (  Erwin  )   90 

Goodnow,  Laura  Ann   91,  453 

Goodnow,  Silas   91 

Goodrich,  Abigail   (  Wolcott  )    .  .     48 


PAGE 

Goodrich,  Elizabeth  (  Dickinson  )     48 

Goodrich,  Horace    48 

Goodrich,  Josiah    4X 

Goodrich,  Maria    48 

Goodrich,  William    48 

Goodwin,  Abbie   (  Earle  )    203 

Goodwin,  Rev.  Daniel  Le  Baron     93 

Goodwin,  Elizabeth    201 

Goodwin, Hannah  Wheeler  ....     cjj 

Goodwin,  Lizzie  Chase  203 

Goodwin,  Rebecca    (Wilkinson)     93 

Goodwin,  William    201 

Goodwin,  William  S 203 

Gorham,  Caroline  P 51 

Gorham.  Elizabeth   56 

Goss,  Ella  M 376 

Goss,  Hatlie  S 377 

Goss,  Maria  (Kimball )    376 

Goss,  Mary  ( Hallett)    377 

Goss,  Sumner   376 

Goss,  William    377 

Gould,  Alice  Maynard  155 

Gould,  Rev.  George  H 87,  94 

Gould,  Gertrude  Tyler   87 

Gould,  Nellie   (Grout)    94 

Gould,  Sarah   (Fayerweather)  .  .     87 

Gould,  William  R 87 

Goulding,  Eli   433 

Goulding,  Emilie  F 318 

Goulding,  Emily  (  Carter)    318 

Goulding,  Ephraim    318 

Goulding,  Capt.  Ephraim  318 

Goulding,  Henrietta  Maria   ....   433 

Goulding,  Col.  John   318 

Goulding,  Martha   (Alexander)   433 

Gould-Smith,  Ellen  M 95 

Goux,  Charlotte  (Warren)    ....   353 

Goux,  Dr.  L.  J 353 

Gove,  Judge  Charles  F 32 

Go-re,  Malvina  Minerva .  .20,  21  p,  04, 

Gove,  Mary  K.    (  Gay  )    21,  32 

Graham,  Nora   118 

Grant,  Hon.  Matthew   44 

Graves,  Delia  Anna   216 

Graves,  Eliza  A 21, 33 

Graves,  Fanny  (Gunn  )    33 

Graves,  Horatio    S3 

Graves,  John   B 377 

Graves,  Mary  Evelyn  377 

Graves,  Mary  (Smith)    377 

Gray,  Albert    218 

dray.  Anna    (  Farnsworth  )    ....   365 

Gray,  Charles  W 217 

Gray,  l-'.thel   (  Ward  )    141 

Gray,  Harold  Farnsworth   365 

Gray,  Harriet  Currier 377 

Gray,  Joshua    377 

Gray.  Katharine   (Mcintosh)    ..    in 
Gray,  Lizzie  (  Rice  )    217 


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Gray,  Mr 1 1 1 

Gray,  Miriam    218 

Gray,  Ploma  (Currier)    377 

Gray,  Theodore    365 

Gray,  Rev.  W.  B.  D 141 

Green,  Abbie  Frances  319 

Green,  Charlotte  A 441 

Green,  Elizabeth  Ruggles  98 

Green,  Elmira    (Richardson)    ..   319 

Green,  Ezra    319 

Green,  Lorinda    82 

Greene,  Alice   (Ailing)    246 

Greene,.  Uice  .1/ 285 

Greene,  Alice  Maud   232,  246 

Greene,  Alice  (  Pierce)    416 

Greene, .  Inn  Amanda  463 

Greene,  Col.  Christopher   .  . .  160,  204 

Greene,  Edith  (  Maltby)    246 

Greene,  Edith  Maltby    246 

Greene,  Elizabeth  (      )   463 

Greene,  Emelia  Steele 245 

Greene  (family  of  R.  I.)   381 

Greene, Frances  Augusta  ...245,327 

Greene,  Fred  W 416 

Greene,  Harris  Ray,  22,  229,  236,  238, 
243,  261,  271,  293,  323,  327,  421 

Greene,  Harris  Ray,  2d   246 

Greene,  Mrs.  Harris  R.  ( see 
Greene,  M.  Antoinette  (Sea- 
mans) 

Greene,  Col.  James   243 

Greene,  James   463 

Greene,  Lucy    (Sherman)    243 

Greene.  M.  Antoinette  {Sea- 
mans)  .  .231,  236,  237,  237,  237,  244 

245,  327 
Greene,  Martha   (Brown)    ..161,204 
Greene,  Martha   Gertrude    ..161,204 

Greene,  Millen  S 285 

Greene,  Gen.  Nathanael.  160,243,388, 

419 

Greene,  Rachel   (Allen)    246 

Greene,  Thankful    (Stillman)  ..   285 
Greene.  William  Arnold.  145,  160,  204 

Greene,  William  Sherman    246 

Greene,  William  Sherman,  2d  .  .   246 

Greenwood.  Eliza  M 280 

Greenwood,  Hannah  (  Wake- 
field)       289 

Greenwood,  Joel  C 289 

Greenwood,  Jonathan    289 

Gregory,  David   Hoyt    37S 

Gregory,  Ellen  M 37S 

Gregory,  Martha  S 330,  394 

Gregory,  Mary  (Howe)   378 

Gregory  (McGregor)   family  ..   330 

Griffin,  Charles    432 

Griffin,  Jane  M 432 

Griggs,  Annie  Beulah  378 


PAGE 

Griggs,  Delia  Maria   378 

Griggs,  Lydia   (Cleveland)    ....   378 

Griggs,  Salem    378 

Griggs,  Thomas    378 

( irimke  sisters   50 

Grinnell,  Rhoda    118 

Griswold,  Anna  B 86 

Griswold,  Arthur  Heywood   ...     98 

( rriswold,  Belle  Alione  86 

Griswold,  Elisha    98 

Griswold,  Emily   (Fay  )    86 

Griswold,  Frederick  F 86 

Griswold,  Rev.  J.  B 86 

Griswold,    Nannie    (Heywood)     98 

Griswold,  Ralph  Mancill   98 

Gross.  Dora  II 379 

Gross,  Emeline  (Sprout )   379 

Gross,  Micha  Haven   379 

Grosvenor,  Joseph  W'illiston  ...     33 
Grosvenor, Mary  B.  (Hancock)    21, 

26  p,  33 

Grout,  Betsy    24 

Grout,  Jonathan    12,  94,  205 

Grout,  Lizzie    5  11,  94,  205 

(in nit.  Mary    (Smith)    94-205 

Grout,  Nellie  M 5n,  04 

Grout,  Willie    5  n,  94 

Grover.  Anna   (  Chaney  )    79 

Grover,  Charles  E 276 

Grover,  Ezra  Lampson   79 

Grover,  Harriet   (Baker  )   79 

Grover,  Henr}'  Crossman   79 

Grover,  James  M 78 

Grover,  James  Madison   79 

Grover,  Julia  (Aspinwall)    79 

Grover,  Katharine  (  Murphey  ) .  .     79 

Grover,  Louise  (Tolman)    276 

Grover,  Lydia  Lyon 79 

Grover,  Paul  Frothingham   ....     79 

( in  iver,  Ralph  Ayres 78 

Grover,  Sarah    (Crossman)    ...     78 

Guerpillon,  Caroline    228.  272  p 

Guild,  Mary  A 96 

Gunn,  Fanny    33 

Gunnison.  Binney  167,  455 

Gunnison,  Charles    167 

Gunnison,  George    167 

Gunnison,  George,  3d     167 

Gunnison,  George  W 166 

Gunnison,  Grace  (Upham)   ....   168 
Gunnison,  Harriet   (Boynton)  .  .  166, 

451,452,455.455 

Gunnison,  Hugh   167 

Gunnison,  Hugh    167 

Gunnison,  Hugh   168 

Gunnison,  Lillian    167 

Gunnison,  Mollie    (Mentzer)    ..    167 

Gunnison,  Sarah  Louise   167 

Gurney,  Susan  Maria   X17 


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PAGE 

Hair,  Andrew    443 

Hair,  Antoinette  E 443 

Hair,  Arthur  W 443 

Hair,  Bessie  B 443 

Hair,  Florence  M 443 

Hair.  Julia   (Weston)    443 

Hale,  Edward  Everett   5.8.17 

Hale,  George  W 95 

Hale,  Lydia  (Flagg)   95 

Hale.  Mar}'  Louise 400 

Hale,  Sarah  Anne    95 

Hall,  Anna   (Davis)    341 

Hall.  Celia    162 

Hall,  Edward  IV 145,  146, 161 

Hall,  Harriet    205 

Hall,  Hascall  Shailer  162 

Hall,  Marian    162 

Hall.  Mary  (Hascall)   162 

Hall.  Walter  Perley  341 

Halleck,  Fitz  Greene  389 

Halleck,  Gen.  Henry  Wager  .  . .   388 

Halleck.  William  A.  389 

Hallett.  Mary   377 

Hallock,  Alma 388 

Hallock,  Joseph    388 

Hallock.  Lieut.  Joseph    388 

Hallock.  Peter    388 

Halstcad.  Emilic   Millicent    ....  379 

Halstead.  Mary   (Potter)    379 

Halstead,  Thomas  J 379 

Hoisted,  Ellen    95,  96 

Halstcd .  Libbie    95 

Hamilton,  Hon.  Alanson   .  .  .  .96,  379 

Hamilton.  Clara  E 379 

Hamilton,  Eliza   (Warren)    ....     96 

Hamilton,  H.  Warren   379 

Hamilton,  Harriet  M 96 

Hamilton,  Laurinda  (Barlow)  379 
Hamlin,  Mirabel    (Folger)    ....    197 

Hamlin.  Mirabel   M 197 

Hamlin,  Orlo  J 197 

Hammond, Anna' Florence  ....  380 
Hammond.  Adelia  (Hovey)  ...  462 
Hammond.  Caroline    (  Felton  )  .  .   307 

Hammond.  Carrie  L 380 

Hammond,  Elias    462 

Hammond,  Elijah    307 

Hammond,  Elijah    (1776)    307 

Hammond,  Elizabeth   (  Penn)  .  .   307 

Hammond,  Ellen  Caroline 307 

Hammond.  Levi  L 380 

Hammond,  Laura   (Beers)    ....   380 

Hammond,  Maducia    106 

Hammond,  Mary   (Parks)    380 

Hammond,  Stoddard    380 

Hancock,  Ann    (Ames)    380 

Hancock,  Etta  L 380 

Hancock,  Frederick   380 

Hancock,  Mary  Bacon   33 


PAGE 

Hann,  J.  B 176 

Hann,  Rosa   (Dean)    176 

Hanna,  Antony  G 347 

Hanna,  Ella  (  Buffum  )   347 

Hansell,  Harriette    97 

Hapgood,  Asa   205 

Hapgood,  Betsy  (Grout )    24 

Hapgood,  Eliza   24.  44 

Hapgood,  Hon.  Hutchins  ...  .24.  183 

Hapgood,  Isabel  Florence    205 

Hapgood,  Lydia   (Crossley)    ...  205 

Hapgood,  Maria    183 

Hapgood.  Seth   24,  44 

Harbison,  Flora  (Holt)    384 

Harbison,  Frederick  A 384 

Harding,  Annie    (Jenckes)    ....  61 

Harding.  Emma  A 3S1 

Harding,  Hannah  (Kent)    277 

Harding,  Harriet    191 

Harding,  Lewis  B 61 

Harding,  Lorenzo    277 

Harding,  Maria   Cecilia    ..228,  277  p, 

,277 

Harding.  (Medway  family)   ....  279 

I  larding.  Mrs 191 

Harding,  Sybil  A 279 

Hardy.  Alvah  E 383 

Hardy,  Cornelia  M 383 

Hardy,  Ella  (Hill)    383 

Hardy,  Etta  J 383 

Hardy,  John  A 383 

Hardy,  Lydia  A 310 

Hardy,  Susan     383 

Harlakenden,  Mabel    81 

Harlow,  Susan    115 

Harriman,  Leonard    403 

Harrington,  Dea.  Amos   177 

Harrington,  Caroline  Jenks    ...  177 
Harrington,     Catherine     (  War- 
ren)      183 

Harrington,  Charles  Mayo    ....  109 

Harrington.    Charles    Theodore  381 

Harrington,  Chauncey  G 63 

Harrington,  Delia   (Griggs)    ...  378 

Harrington,  Eben   381 

Harrington,  Etta   (Hancock)    ..  381 

Harrington,  Frank  W 109 

Harrington,  Frederick  Hancock  381 

Harrington,  Harriet   (  Bemis)  .  .  63 

Harrington.  Henry  Augustus  .  .  378 

Harrington,  Isabel  Kingsley  .  .  .  109 

Harrington,  Kate  A 183 

Harrington,  Nancy  R 289 

Harrington,  Samuel  Austin    ....  183 

Harrington,  Sarah  Ellen    441 

Harrington,  Sarah  (  Mayo)    ....  109 

Harris,  Armilla  (Rounds)    381 

Harris,  Charlotte    68 

Harris,  Edith  Davidson   68 


492 


Index  of  X ames 


PAGE 

Harris,  Ethan  Allen  68 

Harris,  Linus  Monroe 381 

Harris,  May  Francise  381 

Harris,  Sarah   (Bugbee)    68 

Harris,  Theodore    68 

Harris,  Thomas    381 

Harris,  William    201 

Harris,  William  Torrey  68 

Hartshorn,  A  una  M 96 

Hartshorn,  Calvin    96 

Hartshorn,  Mary  (Guild)    96 

Hartw ell, Annie  Lauriston   ....  205 

Hartwell,  Annie  W 262 

Hartwell,  Harriet  (Hall)   205 

Hartwell,  John  Bryant   205 

Hartwell,  Lorinda   76,  194 

Harvey,  Mary  J 335 

Harville.  Rachel  Walker  348 

Hascall,  Rev.  Daniel   162 

Hascall,  Mary  Sophia 162 

Hastings,  Abbie  Sawyer 382 

Hastings,  Achsah   (Belknap)    ..   278 

Hastings,  Charles  C.  P 136 

Hastings,   Clarissa    (Wheelock)    136 
Hastings,  Isabella   (Howe)   382,  387 

Hastings,  Mary  Jane 277,  278 

Hastings,  Maj.  Rufus  382,  387 

Hastings,  Sarah  Isabella   ...382,387 

Hastings,  Timothy   278 

Hatch,  Arthur  N 280 

Hatch,  Ella  (Bassett)  280 

I  latbaway,  Augusta  C 388 

Hathaway,    Florence     (Bowen)    163 

Hathaway,  Horace  M 163 

Hawes,  Rachel 35 

Hawkes,  Mary  (Pease)    130 

Hawkes,  Rev.  W.  S 130 

Hawkins,  Chloe   (Wheelock)  .  . .   383 

Hawkins,  Daniel  A 382 

Hawkins,  Florence  A 38s 

Hayden,  Frances 439 

Hayes,  Mrs.    238 

Haynes,  Benjamin    306 

I  [aynes,  Charlotte  (Litchfield) .  .    106 

Haynes,  Clarence  F 106 

Haynes,  Dinah  (Hitchcock)   ...  306 

Haynes,  Fred  Litchfield  106 

I  [aynes,  I  larry  L 106 

I  [aynes,  John  306 

I  [aynes,  <  \ov.  John 8r 

I  [aynes,  John  T 106 

Haynes,  John  Winslow  106 

I  [aynes,  roseph   306 

!  [ayne  .'  Mabel    (  I  [arlakenden  )     Si 

Haynes,  Sophia  E 306 

I  lays,  Florence  (  Allen  )   277 

I  lays,  Gustavus  1 277 

Hayward,  Abbie  (Jones)  ...320,453 
I  [ayward,  ( )harles  S 320 


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Hayward,  Eben  B 136 

Hayward,  Margery   128 

Hayward,  Raymond  W 320 

Hayward,  Sarah  (Wheelock)   ..    136 

Hazard,  A.  Maude 368 

Hazard,  Alice  (Flagg)   368 

Hazard,  Anna  Rosalind  206 

Hazard,  Annie   (Hartwell)    ....   205 

Hazard,  Hon.  Ebenezer   202 

Hazard,  George    368 

Hazard,  Harriet  Hall 206 

Hazard,  Harriet  Theresa    412 

Hazard,  Irving  L 368 

Hazard,  Jeffrey  205 

Hazard,  Jeffrey,  Jr 206 

Hazard,  John  Hartwell 206 

Hazard,  Lambert  M 368 

Hazard,  Lauriston    206 

Hazard,  Margaret  Crandall  ....   206 

Hazard,  Marion   206 

Hazard,  Otis    368 

Hazard,  Thomas  412 

Healey,  Eliza   137 

Healy,  Harriette  Porter   280 

Heathcott,  Elizabeth    396 

Hedrick,  George    97 

Hedrick,  Harriette  E 97 

Hedrick,  Harriette  (Hansell)   ..     97 

Heminway,  Elijah    289 

Henry,  Lucy 125,  127 

Henshaw,  Marion  97 

Herrick,  Robert  P 265 

Hersey,  Abbie  (Cummings)    ...   354 

Hersey,  Henry  A 354 

Hervey,  James  K 97 

Hervey,  Kale  IV 97 

Hervey,  Mary  (Woods)   97 

Hews,  Eliza    75 

Heywood,  Benjamin  F 98 

Heywood,  Elizabeth   (Green)   ..     98 

Heywood,  Mary  A 262,  409 

Heywood,  Nancy  (Foster)    ....     98 

Hcyzvood,  Nannie  G 98 

Heywood,  Rosa  98 

Heywood,  Walter 98 

Hickok,  Esther  May  40 

Hickok,  Rev.  Laurens  P 40 

Hickok,  Samuel  I) 40 

Hickok,  S.  Jane  (Wheelock)  40,454 

1  [igbee,  I  [annah  Maria [98 

I  [igbee,  Jonas  198 

I  [iggins,  Edwin  W 416 

Higgins,  Lizzie   (Pierce)    416 

Hill,  Bemette   70,99 

I  I  ill.  Calvin    II 254.349 

Hill,  Cornelius   II 383,383 

Mill.  Dan  99 

I  Mil.  Edith   Naomi   349 

Hill,  Ella  S 383 


Index  of  Names 


493 


PAGE 

Hill,  Etta  E 3$3 

Hill,  Frederic  K 349 

Hill,  John  G 66 

Hill,  Josephine  (  Branscomb  ) .  . .     66 

Hill,  Mabelle  (Chadwick)   113 

Hill,  Nancy  (  Peck  )   99 

Hill.  Naomi   (  Childs  )    254,  349 

Hill.  Sally    7" 

Hill.  Susan  (Thompson)   ...383,383 

Hiller,  Allan  Maxcy   435 

Hiller,  Clara  (  Thayer)   435 

Hiller,  Celia  Farnam 435 

Hiller,  Constance  Lane 435 

Hiller,  Helen  Thayer 435 

Hillman,  Adaline   (  Norton  )    ...  462 

Hilhnan.  Caroline 462 

1  lillman,  Capt.  Walter 462 

Hills,  Caroline  Cheney   172 

Hinckley.  Esther  May 59 

Hinds.  Ephraim   183 

Hinds,  Flora    183,  228 

Hinds,  James   188 

Hinds.  Maria   <  llapgood)    183 

Hinds,  Nancy   188 

Hine,  Louise  J 184 

Hinsman,  Carl  Bingham 425 

Hinsman,  Mary  (  Mead  )   425 

Hitchcock,  Dinah    306 

Hoadley.  Miss  M.  E 395 

Hoar,  Margery    201 

Hoar,  President   201 

Hobart,  Charlotte  Spear 100 

Hobart,  John    100 

Hobart,  Naomi   (Thompson)    ..    100 

Hobbs.  Amanda  M 60 

Hobson,  Albert  Francis   192 

Hobson,  Emma   192 

Hobson,  Ethel  Boyce 192 

Hobson,  Henry  Ramsden 192 

Hobson,  Louise  Boyce  192 

1  tobson,  Mary  (  Boyce  )    192 

Hobson.  William  Henry   192 

Hobson,  William  Henry,  Jr.   ...    192 

Hodge.  Elizabeth  M 274 

Hodge.  Harriet   (Kellam)    274 

Hodge,  John    274 

Hodge,  Rev.  Marvin  G 274 

Hodgkins,  Mary  A 2^7.  261 

Holbrook,  Adeline   (  Pratt )    .  . .  .      50 
Holbrook.  Angeline  Elizabeth  ..     50 

Holbrook.  Caroline   404 

Holbrook.  Judge  John   424 

Holbrook.  Julia  88 

Holbrook.  William  50 

Holden,  Augustus  Randall  70 

Holden.  Ellen   (Capron)    70 

Holden,  Frederic  Augustus  ....     70 

Holden,  John  Greene  70 

Holden.  Lewis  Francis  70 


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Holden,  Salome    407 

Holland.  Henry  Clay 366. 

Holland.  Roger   I'errin   366 

Holland.  Rosa  (  Ferrin  )   366 

Holley,  Mary  (Sperry)    127 

Holley,  Ransom   \2j 

Hollingshead,    Florence     Buck- 
ingham     406 

Hollingshead.  Irving  Woodward  406 

1  [ollis,  Eleanor  Weston   464 

Hollis,  Frederick  Allen   172 

Hollis,  Frederick  Stearns   171 

Hollis.  Grace  (Allen)   171.464 

Holman,  Louisa   [39 

Holman,  Mrs.  O.  M.  C 238 

Holmes,  Anna  Bliss 301 

Holmes,  Bessie  Evalyn 308 

Holmes,  Dr.  David  67 

Holmes.  Henry  Alfred 308 

Holmes,  Lucina    132 

Holmes.  Mary   Evalyn    (Howe)  308 

Holmes,  Obadiah    201 

Holmes,  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  ...  67 

Holmes,  Samuel  Foss 308 

Holmes,  Rev.  Wilbur  Fisk   ....  308 

Unit.  Clarissa   (Hubbard)    384 

Holt.  Flora  C 384 

Holt.  Col.  Joah   384 

Holwav.  Edith  (  Bovden)    218 

Holway,  Gilbert  R.  ". 218 

Hooker,  Sarah    103 

Hooker,  Thais  Maria    222 

Hooper.  Eliza  B 101 

Hooper.  Harriet    101 

Hooper.  Harriet  (      )    101.  101 

Hooper.  Henry    101.  101 

Hopkins,  Anne    210 

Hopkins.  Constance   430 

Hopkins  (family  of  R.  I.)    427 

Hopkins.  Joseph    390 

1  [opkins,  Martha   (  Crooker  )  .  . .  390 

Hopkins,  Sarah    381,  427 

Hopkins,  Stephen   381,  427 

Hopkins,  Stephen   50,  378 

Horton,  Harriet  (Sargent)   ....  206 

Horton,  Hattie  S 206 

Horton,  John  B 206 

1  [1  ismer,  Charles  W 106 

Hosmer,  Edith   ( Comev)    106 

Houghton.  Dolly    188 

Houghton.  Fannie  M 101 

Houghton.  Joel    101 

Houghton.  Mary   (Kendall)    ...  101 

Houghton.  Miranda  411 

House.  Idabel  A 385 

House,  Louisa  (Osgood)   385 

House.!'.  J.   B. 385 

Hovey,  Adelia  S 462 

Howard,  Daniel   461 


494 


Index  of  Names 


Howard,  Daniel  N 461 

Howard,  Eleanor    43,  174 

Howard,  Elizabeth   (Dickinson)  461 
Howard,  Fanny  (Waterman)  .  .  461 

Howard,  Lydia  A 276 

Howard,  Marion  Josephine.  .267,  432 

Howard,  Mary  461 

Howe,  Albert 101 

Howe,  Alethea  (Brown)    385 

Howe,  Betsey   39,69 

Howe,  Caroline  (Keith)   101 

Howe,  Lord  Charles   112 

Howe,  Eliza  431 

Howe,  Helen  F 101 

Howe,  Isabella   382,  387 

Howe,  John    385 

Howe,  John  Calvin   385 

Howe,  Lewis  R 261 

Howe,  Lizzie  (see  Nancy  Eliza- 
beth ) 

Howe,  Mary  Adams  378 

Howe, Mary  Emma 3S5 

Hozve,  Mary  Evalyn 30S 

Howe,  Miriam 121 

Howe,  Nancy  B.  (     )   261 

Howe,  Nancy  Elizabeth,  229,  2^7,  261 

Howe,  Rhoda   (Richards)    308 

Howe,  Samuel  G 308 

Howe,  Sophia 123 

Howell,  Judge  David 202 

Howell,  Louisa  D 20 

Howell,  Sally  Brown 180 

Howes,  Abbie  Crowell  29, 102 

Howes,  Abby    (Crowell)    ..    102,103 

Howes,  Alma  (Hurd)   29 

Howes,  B.  G 238 

Howes, Hannah  Crowell  29,102,103 

Howes,  Osborn   29,  102, 103 

Howes,  Mrs.    Osborn    (same   as 

Howes,  Alma  (Hurd)    104 

Howland,  John    56,  194,  361,  425 

Hoyle, Ella  Augusta  386 

Hoyle,  Joseph    386 

Hoyle,  Susan   (King)    386 

Hoyt,  Emma  (Pierpont)    207 

Hoyt,  Malinda   (Reid)    386 

Hoyt,  Mary  Alice    386 

Hoyt,  Mary  Pierreponte 207 

I  [oyt,  Sylvester  C 386 

Hoyt,  U.  G 207 

I  [ubbard,  Clarissa  384 

Hubbard,  George    211 

1 1 uliliard.  Kate    (Hervey)    97 

Hubbard,  N.  M 97 

I  [ubbard,  Nancy   F 211 

I  [umes,  Eliza  77 

Humphrey,  Harriet  (Curtis)     ..   103 

Humphrey,  Harriet  Maria    103 

Humphrey,  Willard  Amherst  ..   103 


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Humphry,  David   165 

Humphry,  Lieut.  John    165 

Humphry,  Lydia  164,  165 

Hunkins,  Martha  S 333 

Hunt,  Caroline  Towne   96 

Hunt,  Carrie  (King)   390 

1 1  tint,  Charles  F 390 

Hunt,  George  W 434 

Hunt,  Harriet   (Hamilton)    ....  96 

Hunt,  Josie   (Taft)    434 

Hunt,  Louise  C 434 

Hunt,  Oliver  D 96 

Hunt,  William  Alanson  96 

Hunter,  Mary  ( Smith  )    222 

Hunting,  Marcy    31 

Hurd,  Alma  E 28 

Hurd.Mira  W 103 

Hurd,  Sarah  (Hooker)   103 

Hurd,  William 103 

Hurlbut,  Asahel    406 

Hutchinson,  Betsy   (King)    ....  104 

Hutchinson,  Edwin  H 387 

Hutchinson,  Elizabeth  M 104 

Hutchinson,  Joshua   104 

Hutchinson,  Julia  392 

Hutchinson,  Mary  Ann  (Waters)  387 

Hutchinson,  Mary  E 387 

Hyde,  Mary  King 341 

Tngraham,  Nancy    398 

Irish,  Charles  T 280 

Irish,  Harry  Adams 280 

Irish,  Mary   (Adams)    280 

Irwin,  Charles   132 

Irwin,  Elizabeth  (Weeks)   132 

1 1  win,  Margaret    132 

Irwin,  Stephen 132 

Irwin,  Stephen,  Jr 132 

Jackson,  Elizabeth   (Pierce)    ...  47 

Jackson,  Jesse  Taylor 47 

Jacques,  John  Crane 387 

Jacques,    Sarah    Isabella    (Has- 
tings)    382,357 

Jameson,  Allen  Marsh   335 

Jameson,  Hugh   335 

Jameson, Julia  (Allen)    335 

Jameson,  Rev.  Melvin   .  . .  .335,  335  p 

Jameson,  Melvin  Waldo 335 

Jenckes,  Alice  (  Child)    61 

Jenckes,  Amelia   (Bates)    61 

Jenckes,  Annie    70 

Jenckes.  Annie  Amelia   61 

Jenckes,  Hannah  E 427 

Jenckes.  Lawrence   61 

Jenckes,  Marcien   61 

Jenkins,  Benjamin  Franklin   ...  T04 

Jenkins,  Charlotte   (Coles)    ....  174 

Jenkins,  Mary  L 104 


Index  of  Names 


495 


PAGE 

Jenkins,  Priscilla   (Dinsmore)  .  .  104 

Jenkins,  Theodore  Parker 174 

Jenks,  Edwin  M. 378 

Jenks,  Josephine  (  West)    378 

Jenks,  Nellie    (  Sayles)    423 

Jenks,  William  A 423 

Jenness,  Sarah 403,  464 

Jenness,  Thomas  S 404 

Johnson,  Abby  B 3S7 

Johnson,  Alice  A 45 

Johnson,  Clara 45 

Johnson,  De  Courcey 462 

Johnson,  Dorothy  L 208 

Johnson,  Edgar  Alden  464 

Johnson,  Edith  Mabel  464 

Johnson,  Eliza    (Clarke)    45 

Johnson.  Elliott  Gray  462 

Johnson,  Ethel  Pearl 464 

Johnson,  Eva   (Martin)    464 

Johnson,  George  E 395 

Johnson,  George  E 462 

Johnson,  George  E.,  Jr 4' 12 

Johnson,  Guy  W 404 

Johnson,  Harriette    (Elliott)    .  .  462 
Johnson,  Helen   (Kendrick)    147,210 

Johnson,  Hugh  Hunter 464 

Johnson,  Minnie   (Larkham)    ..  395 

Johnson,  Rossiter  210 

Johnson,  Ruth  Jenness   464 

Johnson,  Samuel    45 

Johnston,  Alexander   446 

Johnston,  Esther  (Hickok)   ....  40 

Johnston,  Fannie  (Williams)   ..  446 

Johnston,  Robert   40 

Jones,  Abbie  Chamberlain   ..320,  453 

Jones,  Catherine  Henshaw 201 

Jones,  Charles  E 60 

Jones,  Exie  (Baker)    60 

Jones,  Frank  Wellington   60 

Jones,  Helen  May 60 

Jones,  Isaac  H 320 

Jones,  Maria  B 241 

Jones,  Pamelia   220 

Jones,  Tryphena   (Chamberlain)  320 

Jordan.  Augusta   (  Hathaway)  .  .  388 

Jordan,  Caroline   ( Loring)    ....  388 

Jordan,  Charles  0 388 

Jordan,  Ellen  L 104 

J  or  dan,  Fannie  E 388 

Jordan,  Genevieve  H 388 

Jordan,  Inez  77 

]<  in  Ian,  John  W 388 

Jordan.  Parley 104 

Jordan,  Sophia  (Phelps)   104 

Joslin,  Isaac  R 64 

Joslin,  Laurinda  (Bisco)    64 

Josselyn,  Mary  Jane 414 

Joy.  Dorothy   (Johnson)    208 

Joy,  Margaret  A 20S 


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Joy,  Nathan  A 208 

Judd,    Abbie   (Fiske)    367 

Judd,  Orville  Williams 367 

Judson,  Helen  E 191 

Keep,  Edward  S 105 

Keep,  Sarah  E 705 

Keese,  Alma  (Hallock)    388 

Keese,  Anderson    388 

Keese,  Mary  388 

Keith,  Caroline    101 

Keith,  Georgiana  M 87 

Keith,  Sarah  L 326 

Keith,  Simeon    87 

Kellam,  Harriet  L 274 

Kelley,  S.  R 238 

Kellogg,  Emeline    418 

Kellogg,  Joseph    418 

Kellogg,  Mrs 97 

Kelly.  Olive    80 

Kelso,  Elizabeth    264 

Kelton,  A.   M 274 

Kelton,  Harriet    (  Clapp  )    274 

Kemp,  Annie  E 208 

Kemp,  Celia  C 209 

Kemp,  Hiram  A 208,  209 

Kemp,  Mary  (Peaslee) 208,  209 

Kendall,  Deacon    440 

Kendall,  Edward    440 

Kendall,  Esther  (Fairbank)    ...    105 

Kendall,  Frank    440 

Kendall,  George    105 

Kendall,  George  E 440 

Kendall,  Libbie   (Tuller)    440 

Kendall,  Eydia  E 105 

Kendall,  Mary   101 

Kendrick,  Anne    (Hopkins)    ...   210 

Kendrick,  Asahel    210 

Kendrick,  Helen   210 

Kennedy,  Mary   32,  89 

Kennedy,  Walter    .  .236,  237,  239,  261 

Kent,  Hannah    277 

Kershaw,  Mary  Olive  389 

Ketcham,  Mahala  A 42O 

Kibben,  May  (  Earned)    395 

Kibben,  Oliver  P 395 

Kidder,  Abram  French 389 

Kidder.  Lizzie    389 

Kidder,  Lucy   303 

Kidder.  Mary 290 

Kidder,  Sarah  (Burbank)    389 

Kimball,  Aaron  396 

Kimball,   Abigail    (Richardson)    123 

Kimball.  Charlotte  E 320 

Kimball,  Lloyd  B 123 

Kimball,  Maria    376 

King,  Abbie  Philendia   250 

King,  Betsy  104 

King,  Caroline  S 61 


496 


Index  of  Names 


PAGE 

King,  Carrie  A 389 

King,  Carrie  (Frost)   259 

King,  Daniel   390 

King,  Daniel  1 141 

King,  Ella  (Bacon)   338 

King,  Ellen  L 462 

King,  Emeline  (Woodbury)    ...    141 

King,  Emily  M 336 

King,  Dr.  Ernest  F 323 

King,  Fayette  Armsby  312 

King,  George  T 380 

King,  Helen   (Wood)    323 

King,  Henry  Hall    312 

King,  Henry  Hall,  Jr 312 

King,  Howard  Frost 259 

King,  John    52 

King,  Jonathan    52 

King,  Joseph  Warren   259 

King,  Katherine  A 141 

King,  L.  Elizabeth   390 

King,  Levinia   (Davis)    462 

King,  Lucy  (Child)   390 

King,  Marian  Hosmer 323 

King,  Maynard  Holland 4O2 

King,  Mildred  R 338 

King,  Minnie    (Wedge)    312 

King,  Nelson  N 259 

King,  Olive  M 338 

King,  Ralph  W 338 

King,  Sarah    (Lewis)    389 

King,  Susan   386 

King,  Susie    (  Loomis)    259 

King,  Sylvia 52 

King,  William  A 338 

Kingman,  Henry 390 

Kingman,  Henry  Washburn   ...   390 

Kingman,  .1/ .  Josie 390 

Kingman,  Martha   (Hopkins)  ..  390 
Kingsbury,  Anna  (Holmes)    ...   391 

Kingsbury,  Capt.  Caleb 391 

Kingsbury, Emily  Priscilla  ....  391 

Kingsbury,  I  launah    214 

Kingsbury,  Leonard  Augustus.  .  391 

Kinney,  Benj  amin   II 105 

Kinney,  Cynthia  (  Wyman  )  .  . .  .    105 

Kinney.  Genevieve   105 

Kittredge,  Rev.  Charles  B 392 

Kittredge,  Maria  .  1 392 

Kittredge,  Sarah   (Brigham)    ..  392 

Kline,  Agnes    [69 

Kline,  Clara   (Van   Hooser)    ...   168 

Kline  Rev.  <  reorge [68 

Kline,  George  Pattison  c68 

Kline.  Juliet    168 

Kline.  Juliet    (  Pattison  )    .  .  .  .  [68,  15  I 

Kline,  Roberl   Everett  [68 

Kline,  Wilson    Lewis   [68 

Knibbs,  Charles  II 584 

Knibbs,  Etta  1  Mill)  381 


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Knibbs,  John  W 384 

Knibbs,  John  W.,  Jr 384 

Knibbs,  Lila  1 384 

Knight,  Christina    345 

Knight,  Edward  Mason   392 

Knight,  Julia   (  Hutchinson  )    ...  392 

Knight,  Mary  Kingsley  392 

Knight,  Roby  A 409 

Knight,  Vinnie    343 

Knowles,  Alice  (Bigelow)    .  .  .82,  340 

Knowles,  Alice  Marion 340 

Knowles,  Frank  P 82,  340 

Knowles,  George  Francis 340 

Knowles,  Lillian   340 

Knowles,  Mabel  0 262 

Knowlton,  Addie  (Flagg)   88 

Knowlton,  Alice   (Conant)    ....  431 

Knowlton,  Alma  (  Damon  )   ....  393 

Knowlton,  Annie  (Hartwell)   ..  262 

Knowlton,  Asa  B 88 

Knowlton,  Charles  L 393 

Knowlton,  Edward  H 430 

Knowlton,  Helen  Mary  228,237,  262 

Knowlton,  Howard  Sprague  .  .  .  430 

Knowlton,  John  S.  C 262 

Knowlton,  Josephine   (Sprague)  430 

Knowlton,  Luthera   310 

Knowlton,  Sarah  Ann 339 

Knowlton,  Susie   393 

Koch,  Alice  Adams   53 

Koch,  Charles  R.  E 52 

Koch,  Josephine    53 

Koch,  Mabelle   53 

Koch,  Sylvia  (  Adams)    ^2 

Koch,  Sylvia  Augusta    53 

Kyes,  Lucy  Ann   254,  349 

Ladd,  Alice  (  Parker)    ~J 

Ladd,  Fred  E 77 

La  Du,  Jane   45 

L'Aignoux,  Mile 229 

Lakebush,  Carl  S 237 

Lakin,  Ada    (  Stone  )    406 

Lakin,  Dr.  C.  A 406 

Lakin,  Clarissa   130 

Lakin,  George  Shipley 2t  1 

Lakin,  James    211 

Lakin, Marion  Elizabeth  -'// 

Lakin,  Nancy   (Hubbard)    211 

Lakin.  Tryphosa    83.  100 

Lamb,  Km  ma  J 393 

Lamb,  I  lannah  (  Battles  )   393 

Lamb.  Rufus    505 

Lambert,  Elizabeth   (  Davis )   .  . .  357 

Lambert.  Katherine    Porter    ....  358 

Lambert,  Marjorie  Willard  ....  358 

Lambert,  Mary  Bigelow 358 

Lambert,  Richard  Davis 358 

I  ,ambert,  Walter  357 


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Lambert,  Walter  Davis  358 

Lamoureux,  J .  R 22X.  262 

Lam  sun.  Darius  F 330.  394 

Lamson,  Florence  G 394 

Lamson,  Helen  A 330.  394 

Lamson.  Martha   (Gregory)   330,394 

Lane,  Carrie  77 

Lane,  Charles     77 

Lane,  Elizabeth   169 

Lane,  Lucius    "6 

Lane,  Maria  (Clinton)   76 

Lane,  Robert    169 

Lane,  William    77 

Langdon.  H attic    394 

Langdon,  Julia  (  Phelps  )    394 

Langdon,  William  Wesley 394 

Lapham.  Elizabeth  Halleck  ....   389 

Lapham,  Henry  Green   389 

Lapham,  Hoyle    389 

Lapham,  Margaret  Keese 389 

Lapham,  Mary  (Keese)    389 

Lapham,  Richard  Halleck   389 

Laraway.  Harriet    427 

Larkham,  David  Lorenzo  395 

Larkham,  Minnie  A 395 

Larkham.  Sarah   (  Brackett)    .  .  .   395 

Larned,  B.  F 395 

Larned,  M.  E.   (Hoadley)    395 

Lamed,  May  W 395 

Lassell,  Charles  W 302 

Lassell,  Ida  (Stratton  )   302 

Lasselle.  Charles  138 

Lasselle.  Eliza  (Whittemore)  ..   138 

Lasselle,  Horace   138 

Lathrop,  Agnes  Segar 423 

Lathrop,  Edward    289 

Lathrop.  Francis  Owen   .423 

Lathrop,  George  Owen  423 

Lathrop.  II attic  Louise 289 

Lathrop.  Helen  (  Segar)   423 

Lathrop.  Nancy  (  Harrington) .  .   289 

Law,  Harriet    302 

Lawson,  Margaret    212 

Leach,  Abby  .  .  .233.  237.  237,  207,  395 

Leach,  Dr.  Alonzo  L 288 

Leach,  Anna 297.  208.  395 

Leach,  Anna  (  Hartshorn)   96 

Leach ,  Edith    39 5 

Leach,  Eliza  (Bourne)   297 

Leach,  Henry  Goddard 288 

Leach,  Jennie    (Goddard)    288 

Leach,  Joseph  Swan  96 

Leach,  Marcus 297 

Leach,  Luther  Swan    96 

Leatherbee,  Albert  Thompson  .  .   224 

Leatherbee,  Andrew  F 224 

Leatherbee,  Florence  K 224 

Leatherbee,    Florence    (Thomp- 
son )    224 

32 


Leatherbee,  Margaret  Rhodes  ..  224 

Lees.  Elisabeth    396 

Lees,  Elizabeth  (Heathcott)   ...  396 

Lees,  John    396 

Leland.  Alden    106 

Leland,  Annah    (  Temple  )    106 

Leland,  C.  Annah   106 

Leland,  Cynthia    (  Slocomb  )    ...  321 

Leland ,  Fannie    321 

Leland,  1  fenry  396 

Leland,  John    396 

Leland,  Joseph   Warren    321 

Leland,  Lorenzo    . 396 

Leland,  Marcia    396 

Leland,  Marcia    (  Maltby  )    396 

Leland,  Mary  A [36 

Leonard.    Addie    ( Shepardson  )  241 

Leonard.  Anne   123 

Leonard.  Ella   (Randall)    217 

Leonard,  Harry  R 217 

Leonard,  John  X 217 

Leonard,  W.  T 241 

Lewis,  Achsah  354 

Lewi-,  Capt.  Edwin  A 371 

Lewis,  Edwin  Ray 371 

Lewis, Julia  Belle  (Freeman)..  371 

Lewis,  Sarah  A 389 

Lincoln.  Abraham   100,  283 

Lincoln,  Elizabeth  Wilder 294 

Lincoln,  Harriet    225 

Lincoln,  1  )r.    Henry   397 

Lincoln,  Lydia  (Foster)    294 

Lincoln,  Maria   (Allen)    397 

Lincoln,  Martha   B 397 

Lincoln,  Martha   (  Bond  )    307 

Lincoln,  Mary  E 397 

Lincoln.  Stephen    294 

Lincoln,  Thomas    294 

Lincoln,  William    397 

Lindsey.  Luln    (  Sly  )    304 

Lindsey,  Dr.  Marshall  L 304 

Lindsey,  Norman  M 305 

Litchfield.  Charlotte  A 106 

Litchfield.  Festus  C 106 

Litchfield.  Maducia  (  Hammond)  106 

Little,  Mrs.  Luther   282 

Littletield.  Leland  H 206 

Little  field,  Marion   (Hazard)...  206 

Littletield.  Ruth    (Wiswall)    ...  51 

Livermore,  George  W 58 

Livermore.  L.   Jane    (  Bachelor  )  58 

Livermore,  Mary  (Symons)    ...  432 

Livermore,  Thomas  S 43- 

Locke.  John    178 

Locke,  Lucy    178 

Locke,  Samuel    178 

Long,  Joseph  A 438 

Long,  Minnie   (  Todd  )    438 

Loomis,  Susie  H 259 


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Loring,  Caroline  C 388 

Loring,  Edwin 398 

Loring,  Etta  (Rollins)    286 

Loring,  Frank  R 286 

Loring,  George  H 286 

Loring,  Henry  H 286 

Loring,  Joshua    106 

Loring,  Lucretia  A 286 

Loring,  M.  Cordelia 106 

Loring,  Margaret   (Smith)    ....    106 
Loring,  Nancy    ( Ingraham  )    ...   398 

Loring,  Nellie  S 398 

Loudon,  Lizzie  M 212 

Loudon,  Margaret  (Lawson)    ...212 

Loudon,  Thomas    212 

Lovell,  Abbic  F 200 

Lovell,  Ellen  (Clifford)   76 

Lovell,  Jonathan   290 

Lovell,  John  D 76 

Lovell,  Mary    ( Kidder)    290 

Lovewell,  Capt.  John 462 

Lovewell,  Hester  A 462 

Lovewell,  Lucy  (  Freeman)   ....  462 

Lovewell,  Noah  P 46-2 

Lovis,  Helen  (Baker)   338 

Lovis,  Nancy  Irwin   338 

Lovis,  Samuel  Clark   338 

Low,  Col.  John  5° 

Low,  Sally  (Gee)  56 

Luce,  Adelia  Hillman   4(>2 

Luce,  Caroline  (Hillman)    462 

Luce,  Jason    402 

Lumb,  Lizzie  ( Loudon)    212 

Lumb,  William    212 

Luther,  (  Miss)    105 

Luther,  Benjamin   65 

Luther,  Caroline   (Bowen)    ....     65 
Lyford,  Fmeline   ( Forbes)    ....   398 

Lyford,  Emma   398 

Lyford,  Nathaniel  Adams  398 

Lyman,  Lieut.   Benjamin    202 

Lyman,  Ella   (Gleason)    376 

Lyman,  Prof.  George  W 376 

Lyman,  Hannah    202 

Lynch,  Josephine  G 4°4 

Lynde,  Johnson  342 

MacGregor,  Archibald   291 

MacGregor,   Gertrude    (Tilton)  291 

MacGrcgor,  Gordon  Mercer   ...  291 

MacGregor,  Helen  Gertrude  ...  291 

MacGregor,  Milton   Emery  ....  291 

Mackintire,  A.  W.  (Barker)   ...  399 

Wackintire,  Belle  D 399 

\I.m  I  intire,  <  reorge   E 399 

MacMurray,  Annie   (Moies)    ..  409 

\!;i<  Murray,  John  C 409 

\l.i.  Murray,  Kenneth    409 

MacMurray,  Robinson  K 401; 


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Macomber,  Carrie  (Bassett)  ..  323 
Macomber,   Clarence   Richmond  323 

Macomber,  Ethel  Calista   323 

Macomber,  Stanley  Bassett  ....   323 

Madison,  Dolly   128 

Magee,  Frank  A 408 

Magee,  Genevieve    368 

Magee,  Genevieve  (Merrill)   .  .  .   408 

Magee,  George   408 

Magee,  John    408 

Magee,  John  L 3'"s 

Magee,  Pamelia    (  Fitch  )    .  . .  .37,  368 

"Maggie"  144  11 

Magna,  A.  G 377 

Magna,  Hattie   (Goss)    377 

Magna,  Joseph  N 377 

Magna,  Russell  W 377 

Mahan,  Mary  A 412 

Mahoney,  Alice   (  Ford  )    399 

Mahoney,  Ellen  A 399 

Mahoney,  Jeremiah    399 

Mailly,  Mons 3,  20 

Mallalieu,  Alice  Isabel   400 

Mallalieu,  Belle   400 

Mallalieu,  George  Washington.  .  400 
Mallalieu,  Lydia  (Tourtellotte)  400 
Mallalieu,     Rt.     Rev.     Willard 

Francis  400 

Mallon, Ellen  Louise 108 

Maltbv,  Edith  Rebekah 246 

Maltby,  Marcia    396 

Mandell,  Major 219 

Mandell,  Maria   218 

Mauley,  Emma  Agnes 400 

Mauley,  Frederick  White 400 

Manley,  Mary   (  Hale  )    400 

Mann,  A.  J 97 

Maun,  Caroline  A 10S,  401 

Mann,  Elizabeth    (Pittman)    108,401 

Mann, Fannie  Isabella  401 

Mann,  Harriette   (Hedrick)    ...     97 

Mann,  Mary  1 97 

Mann,  Nehemiah  P 10X.ru 

Mann,  William  J 97 

Manning,  Caroline   (Woods)    .  .   448 

Manning,  Charles  Arthur   448 

Manning,  Clarence   William    ...   448 

Manning,  David  Ralph  448 

Manning,  Fanny  M 119.  120 

Manning,  Florence  Elizabeth  ..  448 
Manning,  Frederick  Theodore..   448 

Manning,  ( irace  Woods  448 

Manning,  I  [arold  Grosvenor  .  .  .   448 

Manning,  Robert  Henry 44'^ 

Manning,  Theodore   448 

Marble,  Abby  (  Redding )  417 

Marble,  Allen    284 

Marble,  Helen    (Allen)    284 

Marble,  Jerome   417 


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Marble,  Dr.  John  0 284 

Marble,  Murray    284 

Marble,  Prescott   284 

March.  Lucy    Ill 

Marchal,  Bertha    237 

Marcoe,  Grace  G 404 

Marston,  Caroline  (Farnsworth)  402 

Marston,  Ella  P 402 

Marston,  Julia  C 402 

Marston,  Meroe  F 402 

Marston,  William  402 

Martin,  Abner  Harriman  . .  .403,  464 

Martin,  Agnes  Jackson 179 

Martin,  E.  T 21,  34 

Martin,  Emilie   (Doolittle)    ....  198 

Martin,  Eva  R 464 

Martin,  John  Calvin   198 

Martin   (Pilgrim  family) 403 

Martin,  Sarah   (Jenness)    ...403,464 

Martin,  Selinda  63 

Martin,  Sylvia  A 403 

Marvin,  Rev.  Abijah  P 404 

Marvin,  Caroline   (Holbrook)  .  .  404 

Marvin,  Mary  A 404 

Mason,  Annie  (Jenckes)    70 

Mason,  Benjamin    380 

Mason,  Caroline  Rebecca 70 

Mason,  Carrie  (Hammond)   ...  380 

Mason,  Frank  Hamilton  380 

Mason,  Fred  Olney  70 

Mason,  Henry  H 256 

Mason,  Herbert  Capron  70 

Mason.  Mary  (  Capron)    70,  99 

Mason,  Olive   380 

Mason,  Pauline   380 

Mason,  Robert 380 

Mason,  Sarah  Cutler 256 

Mason,  William  Collins    70 

Mason,  William  Olney    70 

Mather,  Mary  Helen 428 

Mather,  Rev.  Richard 428 

Mathews,  Acidic  0 403 

Mathews,  Mary   (Barber)    405 

Mathews,  Winthrop    405 

Matthewson,  Darius   338 

Matthewson,  George  Baldwin  .  .  338 

Matthewson,  Mary  (  Baldwin)  .  .  338 
Mattoon,  Laura  (Goodnow)    91,453 

Mattoon,  Laura  Isabella 91 

Mattoon,  William  P 91 

Maynard,   Florence    (Hawkins)  383 

Maynard,  Henry  A 383 

Mayo,  Esther  Wilder  298 

Mayo,  Hamilton    298 

Mayo,  Rev.  John 109 

Mayo,  Laura    (  Merriam)    .  .298,  451. 
452 

Mayo,  Sarah  A ioq 

Mayo,  Sarah  (Dennis)   109 


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Mayo,  William   109 

Mayo,  Winthrop  Merriam 298 

Mazuzan,  A  ma   463 

Mazuzan,  Dr.  James  463 

McCausland,  Amy    389 

McCausland,  James   389 

McCausland,  Lizzie    (Kidder  ) .  .   389 

McClary,  General    431 

McClellan,  Ama    (Daggett)    ...   405 

McClellan,  Dea.  John   405 

McClellan  (  family  of  Sutton  )  .  .    139 

McClellan,  Leila  Agnes  -/05 

McCrillis,  Abigail  416 

McFarland,  Abbie   212,  406 

McFarland,  Catherine 332 

McFarland,  Eleanor   332 

McFarland,  Jerushal  White  )  212,  406 

McFarland,  John    332 

McFarland,  Martha   (Williams)  331 

McFarland,  Richard   332 

McFarland,  Sarah    212 

McFarland,  Warren    212,  406 

McFarland,  William    332 

McFarland,  William  F 331 

McGraw,  Hortens'e  Gertrude    ..  281 
McGraw,  Sarah  (Gardner)   ....   281 

McGraw,  Thomas    281 

Mclntire,  Addie  (Bird)    341 

Mclntire,  Clarence  E 341 

Mcintosh,  Alice  L 406 

Mcintosh,  Charles  T 281 

Mcintosh,  Eliza  (Ayers)    281 

Mcintosh,  Eveline    (Bumstead)   406 

Mcintosh,  Fannie  L 237,  281 

Mcintosh,  Katharine  C 21,  no 

Mcintosh,  Samuel  Joseph 406 

McLane,  Charles  Malcolm 317 

McLane,  Clinton  Averill  317 

McLane,  Ellen  (Tuck)   316.455 

McLane,  Hazel  Ellen  317 

McLane,  John    316 

McLane,  John  Roy  317 

McPherson,  Dr 142 

McPherson,    Elizabeth    (  Work- 
man)    142 

McRae.  Duncan    . 115 

McRae,  Isabella   115 

McRae,  Susan   (  [Murray)    115 

Mead.  Col.  James  42s 

Mead,  Dr.  John  A 425 

Mead,  Mary  Sherman 425 

Mead,  Mary  (Sherman  )    425 

Means,  Abby   (Blanchard)    ....   346 

Means,  Rev.  O.  W 346 

Mentzer,  Mollie  C 167 

Merriam.  Abbie  (Baker)   317 

Merriam,  Amelia    Ill 

Merriam,  Anna  Parker   112 

Merriam,  Artemas    407 


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Merriam,  Caroline  (Parker)  ...  112 

Merriam,  Charles   112 

Merriam,  Charles  Henry   298 

Merriam,  Edmund  F 317 

Merriam,  Ida  E 407 

Merriam,  Ida  Frances 317 

Merriam .  Laura  S 298,  45 1 .  452 

Merriam,  Laura   (Wilder)    298 

Merriam,  Lucy  (March  )    11 1 

Merriam,  Mary  Waite  317 

Merriam,  Salome   (  Holden  )    ...  407 

Merriam,  Timothy    in 

Merriam,  William    112 

Merrick,  Oril    54 

Merri field,  Catharine  Amelia   ..  112 
Merrifield,  Harriette    . .  .308,  309,  455 

Merrifield,  Margaret  (Brigham)  112 
Merrifield,  Maria  (Brigham)    ..308, 

309 

Merrifield,  Maria  Josephine    ...  309 

Merrifield,  Susanna   (Brigham)  66 

Merrifield,  Timothy    308 

Merrifield,  William  F 66 

Merrifield,       William       Trow- 
bridge     112, 3c8,  309 

Merrill,  Albert  B 60 

Merrill,  Genevieve    408 

Merrill,  George   S 408 

Merrill,  Helen   (Jones)    60 

Merrill,  Jesse    303 

Merrill,  Lucy   (Kidder)    303 

Merrill,  Nathaniel     303 

Merrill,  Sarah   L 237,  303 

Merrill,  Sarah    (Weston)    408 

Merritt,  Ella  (Dean)    360 

Merritt,  Florence  May   360 

Merritt,  George  J 360 

Messinger,  Louisa  M 192 

Metcalf,  Alice    (Greene)    285 

Metcalf,  Alice  Narcissa   285 

Metcalf,  Betsey    338 

Metcalf,  Franklin    285 

Metz,  Charlotta  (Baumann)    ...  408 

Metz,  John     408 

Metz,  Susie    408 

Meyers,  Mons.  Jean  S 20 

Miller,  Charles  M 392 

Miller,  I  >avid   Knight    392 

Miller,  Edwin   B 310 

Miller,  Elizabeth  B X13 

Miller,  George   II 387 

Miller,  Lydia  (  I  tardy)   310 

Miller,  M.  Estelle   310 

Miller.  Mary   (  I  tutchinson  )    .  . .  3X7 

Miller.  Mary   (  Knight  )    392 

Miller,  Phebe  V 163 

Miller,  Ruth    392 

Miller,  Dr.  S.  P [13 

Miller,  William   Allan    392 


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Millet,  Fannie  248 

Milliken,  Edith  Eddy  362 

Milliken,  H.  Eugene   362 

Milliken,  Harry  X 362 

Milliken,  Mary  Jane    113 

Milliken,  Philip   Lazell    362 

Milliken,  Rachel   (Nutting)    ....    113 

Milliken.  Samuel  Barrett 362 

Milliken,  Sara  (  Eddy  )    362 

Milliken,  William    113 

Miner,  Emma   (  Frost )    y]2 

Miner,  William  H 372 

Minor,  Eldred  Liscomb    363 

Minor,  Elsie    363 

Minor,  James  Henry  363 

Minor,  Jennie   (Eldred)    363 

Minor,  John   Bacon   363 

Minor,  John  Bacon,  Jr 363 

Minor,  Ursula    363 

Misner,  Prof.  F.  C 20,  34 

Mitchell,  Alice  Austin   414 

Mitchell,  Austin  M 414 

Mitchell,  Deborah  Ann 421 

Mitchell,  Harriet  (Poole)    414 

Mixer.  Charles  P 142 

Mixer,  Sarah    (Works)    142 

Moics,  Annie  Robinson   409 

Moies,  Charles    409 

Moies,  Roby  (  Knight )    408 

Molt,  A.  Isabel   (Mallalieu)    ...   400 

Mult,  George  Mallalieu   400 

Molt,  Herman  J 400 

Monroe,  Donald    171 

Monroe,  Sarah    170 

Monroe,  William    171 

Montague,  Eleanor   190 

Moore,  Almira   (  Fuller  )    374 

Moore,  Henry  Martin   387 

Moore,  Herbert    214 

Moore,  Dea.  Horatio   374 

Moore,  Julia  Shepherd   214 

Moore,  Sarah   (  I  tastings  )    387 

Moran, C.  Edmund  22N.  '62 

Moran,  Charles     262,  409 

Moran,  M .  Jennie 262,  409 

Moran,  Mabel    (Knowles)    2U2 

Moran,  Mary  (Heywood)    ..262,409 

Morgan,  J.  Pierpont   207 

Morrill,  Emma   Louise   409 

Morrill,  Fannie   (Jordan  )    388 

Morrill,  George   H 409 

Morrill,  Sarah   (  Ti.ld  )    400 

Morrill,  William  D 388 

Morris,  Angenette    337 

Morse,  .  Ibigail  C TI3 

Ah.ise.  Anthony    213 

Morse,  Charles   Moody    213 

Mors,-,  Elizabeth   (  Beelsford  )  .  .   213 
Morse,  Ella   (  Marston)    403 


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Morse,  II.  M 393 

Morse,  Harold  Comfort    403 

Morse,  Henrietta  (Safford)    ...    113 

Morse,  Howard  C 403 

Morse.  Martha    62 

Morse,  Martha  Elisabeth  213 

Morse,  Mary  A 123 

M  >rse,  Mason    113 

Morse,  Memo  Farnsworth   403 

Morse,  Susie  (Knowlton)   393 

Morton,  Nathaniel   397 

Moss,  Albert  H 404 

Moss,  Edward    404 

Moss,  Edward  A.  D 404 

Moss,  Edward  A.  I).,  Jr 404 

Moss,  Florence  E 404 

Moss,  George  C 404 

Moss,  Grace   (Marcoe)    404 

Moss.  Josephine    (  Lynch  )    404 

Moss,  Sylvia    (Martin)    404 

Mowry.  Delia    446 

Mowry,  Harriet  J 252,  332 

Mowry,  Harris  J 252 

Mowry.  Sarah  Emily   118 

Mudge.  Arthur  C 411 

Mudge,  Hope  Rawson  411 

Mudge.  John  Green    411 

Mudge.  Mary    (  Paige)    411 

Mullins,  Friscilla  ...  .6.  125.  361,  430 

Mumford,  Louisa  Dexter  221 

Munroe,  Allen  K 114 

Munroe,  Harriet  A 114 

Munroe,  Mary  Anne  (Chase)  ..   114 

Munsill,  Esther  C 4/0 

Munsill,  Mary  (  Borden  )    410 

Munsill,  Mills   S 410 

Murdock,  Alice   (Aldrich)    194 

Murdock,  Donald  A 194 

Murdock,  Edgar  Wheelock  ....    128 

Murdock,  Harold   Clifford   194 

Murdock.  Hattie   (Clifford)    ...    194 

Murdock.  Herbert  Taft 12S 

Murdock,  Julius  0 104 

Murdock.  Lester  B 194 

Murdock,  Lewis  Henry  128 

Murdock.  Sarah    (  Taft  1    128 

Murphey,  Katharine   79 

Murray,  Charles     115 

Murray,  Cornelia  (Hardy)    ....   383 

Murray,  George  H 383 

Murray.  Sarah    284 

Murray.  Susan     113 

Murray,  Susan   (Harlow)    115 

Muzzy,  Annie  L 124 

Muzzy,  Annie  (Saville)    124 

Muzzy,  Benjamin     124 

Muzzy,  Clifford  L 124 

Muzzy,  David  S 124 

Muzzy.  David  Saville.  Jr 124 


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Muzzy.  David  Wood 124 

Muzzy,  Helen   E 124 

Muzzy,  Ina   (Bullis)    124 

Muzzy,  Lizac   11^ 

Muzzy,  Susan  W 124 

Myers,  Frank  H 395 

Myers,  Minnie   (Larkham)    ....  395 

Nash,  Dea.  Abner  P 36 

Xash,  Rachel    (  Blanchard)    ....  36 

Nelson,  Cora  Belle  (Eaton)    ...  71 

Nelson,  W.   11 71 

Newcomb,  Annie    163,  213 

Newcomb,  Hannah  (Capron)   ..  162 

Newcomb,  Joseph  Milford  162 

Newcomb,  Otis  C 145.  146, 162, 

163.214 

Newell,  Benjamin    410 

Newell,  Elizabeth  (Pike)    410 

Newell,  Lizzie  M 410 

Newell,  Sylvia    365 

Newhall,  Albert  H 105 

Newhall,  Lydia   (Kendall)   105 

Newland,  Elizabeth    81 

Newland,  Emma   (Dickinson)..  81 

Newland,  William  A 81 

Newton,  Abbie  C 116 

Newton,  Almira    135 

Newton,  Amie  (Bowman)   116 

Newton,  Daniel  F 116 

Newton,  George  F 88,411 

Newton,  Julia  Belle  88,  411 

Newton,  Lizzieanna    88 

Newton,  Martha    (  Flagg)    . .  .88,  411 

Xiles,  Annie    (Reynolds)    181 

Niles.B.  D 181 

Noble,  Gen.  John  Willock 95 

Noble,  Kathleen  L 303 

Xoble,  Lil.bie  (Halsted)   95 

Nolan,  William  E 239 

Northam,  Betsey  E 434 

Norton,  Adaline    462 

Norton,  Alida  J 411 

Norton,  Franklin   B 411 

Norton,  Jane  (Felton)   411 

Nourse,  Lucy  Fay    355 

Nourse,  Rebecca    355 

N<  »yes,  Elizabeth  338 

Noyes,  Elmer  Whiting 417 

Noyes,  Joseph    1S2,  291 

Noyes,  Josie  (Reed)   417 

Ni  iyes,  Louie  Josephine   4'7 

Nutting,  Rachel   113 

Ogden,  Ethel  T 191 

Opdyke,  Agnes    226 

Opdyke.  Henry    226 

Opdyke,  Henry  B 226 

Opdyke,  Howard   226 


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Opdyke,  Miriam   (Whiton)    ....   226 

Orcutt,  Julia   352 

Osgood,  Annie  R 104 

Osgood,  Charles  H 364 

Osgood,  Louisa  C 385 

Osgood,  Mabel  E 364 

Osgood,  Mary   (Ellsworth)    ....   364 

Otis,  Albert  S 432 

Otis,  Alexander    278 

Otis,  Donald  K 432 

Otis,  Edmund  B 278 

Otis,  Edward  K 432 

Otis,  Emma  H 432 

Otis,  Isabelle   (Stratton)    432 

Otis,  John  P.  K 432 

(  His,  Kate  Eleanor   278 

Otis,  Margaret    278 

Otis.  Maria   (Harding)    278 

Otis,  Marion  Isabel   278 

Otis,  Mary  E 432 

Owen,  A.  R 39 

Owen,  Ellen   (Billiard)    39 

Packard,  Henry  H 184 

Packard,  Louise  A 1S4 

Packard,  Louise  (Braman)  ....  184 
Packard,  Rachel   (Freeman)    ...   241 

Packard,  Sarah  M 396 

Packard,  Sophia  B.,  126,146,227-29, 
241,  242  p,  258,  261 

Packard,  Susan  Willis   88 

Packard,  Winslow    241 

Packer,  Elizabeth  E 153 

Packer,  Everetta  P 153 

Packer,  Frances  (Pattison)  ...  153 
Packer,  Jennie   (Douglass)    ....     82 

Packer,  Rev.  John   153 

Packer,  Juliet   153 

Packer,  Louis  D 82 

Page,  Dr.  Charles  W 291 

Page,  Emma  (Collins)   291 

Page,  Ettie   (Parkhurst)    291 

Page,  Nancy  Ann  421 

Page,  Parkhurst    291 

Paige,  Caroline    364 

Paige,  David  Cutler 411 

Paige,  Mary  /// 

Paige,  Miranda    (Houghton)    ..411 

Paine,  -  Mice  W 214 

Paine,  Charles   214 

Paine,  Judge  Elijah  263 

Paine.  Eliza  (  Folger)  263 

Paine,  Hannah    (Kingsbury)    ..  214 

Paine,  Harriet  E 2.^.  239,  263 

I'.ii  1 11,  John  Chester   263 

Palmer,  .Alice 135 

I  'aimer,  Eleanor  (  I  Inward  ) .  .43,  174 
Palmer, Ellen  Pleroma  .... 422,174 
Palmer,  John  Pease 135 


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Palmer,  Gen.  Joseph  135 

Palmer,  Mary  E 352 

Palmer,  Rosalinda  Healy,  20,  21,  42p, 

43 

Palmer,  Rev.  Samuel   .  .  .42  p,  43,  174 

Parish,  Mary  Anna   125 

Parker,  Adelaide   (Collier)    ....  77 

Parker,  Alice  Louise  77 

Parker,  Caroline  112 

Parker,  Charles  E 77 

Parker,  Charles  Henry 77 

Parker,  Charlotte    89 

Parker,  Chloe   196,  358 

Parker,  Rev.  Clement   196 

Parker,  Frank  Carlton   77 

Parker,  Helena    nj 

Parker,  Inez   (Jordan)    77 

Parker,  Isabel   (Thomas  )    77 

Parker,  Jennie  Mabel    77 

Parker,  Luella   (Potter)    77 

Parker,  Margaret   (Joy)    208 

Parker,  Samuel  Perry 77 

Parker,  Lieut.  William  T 208 

Parkhurst,  Ettie  M 29/ 

Parkhurst,  Rev.  J.  W 223 

Parkhurst,  Jonathan    291 

Parkhurst,  Sarah   (  Whiting)    .  .  291 
Parkinson,  Caroline   .  .  .  .235,  237,  263 

Parkinson,  Elizabeth   (Kelso)  .  .  264 

Parkinson,  Henry    263 

Parkinson,  Robert    263 

Parks.  Beatrice   (  Provan  )    109 

Parks,  Mary   380 

Parks,  W.  H 109 

Parsons,  Colonel    209 

Partridge.  Lydia   San  ford   435 

Partridge,  Maria 2 

Partridge,  Mary  Jones   323 

Partridge.  William 201 

Partrigg,  William 201 

Patch,  Charles  117 

Patch,  Mary  (Sprague)    117 

Patch,  Sarah   117 

Patrick,  Clarissa  Amelia   463 

Patten,  Allen  R 334 

Patten,  Eliza   (Allen  )    334 

Patten,  Ralph  II 334 

Patten,  Robert   A 334 

Patten,  W.   0 334 

Patten,  I  [on.   William  S 202 

1 'at ten,  Willie   Flagg   334 

Pattison,  Alice  (Gould  )   155 

Pattison,  Eliza    152 

Pattison,  Elizabeth  (Pennell)  ..  156 
Pattison,     Ella     (Woods),     (see 

Mrs.  R.  E.  Pattison  ) 
Pattison,  Ettie (seejuliet)  143, 144,149 

Pattison.  Everett    Wilson    .  .  144,  145, 
152,  153 


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Pattison,  Fannie   (see  Frances)    143. 

144.  149 

Pattison.  Frances    r.52,  152 

Pattison,  Frances   (Wilson)    [52,168 

Pattison,  Helen  (Searle)    156 

Pattison,  James  William,  144,  15-'.  ms 
Pattison,  Juliet,  152,  155,  164,  168,454 

Pattison,  Lucy  [70 

Pattison,  Marcia  (Whitehouse)    155 
Pattison,  Rev.  Robert  Everett..     19, 

143.  144,  14/-50,  151,  153.  153. 

:54.    155,    !58,    J6o,    160,    166, 

167.  168,  170,  222,  227,  228 
Pattison,  Mrs.    Robert    Everett,  143, 

149.  152.  152 

Pattison,  Sarah   152 

Pease,  Annie    130 

Pease,  Elizabeth  Sanford 130 

Pease,  Emory  Sanford  130 

Pease,  Kate  Frances   130 

Pease,  Alary    Ann    (Tourtellot)    130 

Pease,  Mary  Emily 130 

Pease,  William   E 130 

Peaslee,  Alary    208,  209 

Peck,  J.  H 279 

Peck,  J.  0.  (Mrs.)  419 

Peck,  "Maud  (  Tower  )   279 

Peck,  Nancy  B 99 

Peirce,  Andrew  46 

Peirce,  Clara  Louisa   47 

Peirce,  Elizabeth  Gilman   47 

Peirce.  Mary    (Gilman)    46.  454 

Penn,  Elizabeth    307 

Perm,  William   307 

Penn,  Sir  William   307 

Penned.  Prof.  C.  S 156 

Penned,  Elizabeth   156 

Penniman,  Mary   (Hutchinson)   387 

Penniman,  Samuel  W 387 

Pepper,  H.  Howard '.....   331 

Pepper.  Mary  (Rose)    331 

Percival,  Ella  L 282 

Percival.  Mary   (Chadwick)    ...   282 

Percival.  Capt.   Thomas   282 

Perkins,  Anna   (Sweetser)    ....  299 
Perkins.  Capt.  Benjamin  Warren  299 

Perkins,  Blanche  Alfarata  299 

Perkins,  Caroline  (Raymond)  .  .  329. 

451.452 

Perkins,  Donald  G 131 

Perkins,  Edmund    130 

Perkins.  Rev.  Francis  Brown  .  .   325 

Perkins,  Jesse    299 

Perkins,  Juliet   (Warner)    130 

Perkins,  Laura  (Strong)    325- 

Perkins,  Madeleine  Raymond  .  .   329 

Perkins,  Mary  (Rice)   299 

Perkins,  Robert   Warner    ...131,329 
Perky,  Henry  D 2  n.  450 


Perry,  Abbie  412 

Perry,  Dr.  Charles  H 275 

Perry.  Clara  (  Thayer  )  .  .  [49,  27^.  453 

Perry,  Edward   412 

Ferry,  Emma  S 412 

Perry,  Harriet  (Hazard)   412 

Perry,  John  Gould 412 

Perry,  Lydia    337 

Perry,  Mary   (Malum)    412 

Perry,  Com.  Matthew  Calbraith  412 

Perry.  Com.  Oliver  Hazard  ....  412 

Perry,  William  H 412 

Pervear.  Charles  Emmons    296 

Pervear,  Charles  Eftimons,  Jr...  296 
Pervear,  Ellen   (Gilbert)    ...290,451 

Pervear,  Ethel  Stevens 296 

Pervear,  Gilbert  Goddard 296 

Peters,  Hannah  B 117 

Peters,  Hannah    (Tyler)    117 

Peters,  Judge  Onslow 117 

Peterson.  May  R 191 

Pettigrew,  John    416 

Pettigrew,  Sarah  (Quimby)    ...  416 

Phelps,  Agnes  Gertrude  424 

Phelps,  Augustus  D 424 

Phelps,  Harriette  (Shattuck)   ..  424 

Phelps,  Julia  Ellen 394 

Phelps,  Sophia 104 

Phetteplace,  Oriana  Frances  .  .  .  11S 

Phetteplace,  Sarah   (Mowry)    ..  118 

Phetteplace,  Simon  W 118 

Philbrick,  Elisabeth  Boutelle,  29.214 

Philbrick,  John  White  29.  214 

Philbrick,  Julia  (  Moore  )   214 

Philbrick,  Mary   (  Shaw  )    29 

Philbrook.  Alden  W 321 

Philbrook,  Jennie  A 321 

Philbrook,  John    413 

Philbrook,  Mary  Whitten    32] 

Philbrook,  Nellie  M 413 

Philbrook,  Susan  (Brown)   ....  413 

Phillips.  Annie  Maud 61 

Phillips,  Caroline  (King)    61 

Phillips,  Rev.  George  Whitefield  61 

Phillips,  Henry    132 

Phillips,  Jane    (Webber  )    132 

Phillips,  Jenny    132 

Phillips,  Le  Rov   61 

Phillips.  Sarah    (Ball)    61 

Phillips,  Wendal   132 

Pickard,  Edward  L..  Jr 87 

Pickard.  Gertrude  (Gould)   ....  S~ 

Pickup,  Genevieve   (Kinney)    ..  105 

Pickup,  James   105 

Pickup,  Marion  Louise 105 

Pickup,  Roy  Beaumont 105 

Pickup,  William   Allston    105 

Pierce,  Alice  M 416 

Pierce.  Carrie  L 396 


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Pierce,  Dwight  S 416 

Pierce,  E.  Le  Roy   396 

Pierce,  Elizabeth   (Lees)    396 

Pierce,  George  L 396 

Pierce,  George  S 396 

Pierce,  Harlan  B 416 

Pierce,  Henry  L 396 

Pierce,  Lizzie  H 4I() 

Pierce,  Marian    (  Pratt)    416 

Pierce,  Maud  E 416 

Pierce,  Sarah  (Packard)   396 

Pierpont,  Emma  G 207 

Pike,  Elizabeth  A 410 

Pinney,  Kate  (Tower)    283 

Pinney,  Judge  Roy  Henck 283 

Pitman,  Harry    446 

Pitman,  Lulu    ( Williams)    446 

Pitt,  Sir  William    347 

Pittman,  Elizabeth  M 108,  401 

Pitts,  Louisa   340 

Piatt,  Essie  (Davids)    195 

Piatt,  W.  Edward  195 

Platts,  Mary 216 

Pomeroy,  Eltweed    201 

Pond,  Anna  (  Souther)   253 

Pond,  Eli   118 

Pond,  Ellen   (Eddy)    84 

Pond.  Evelyn  G 118 

Pond, Hannah  Daniels 2,  11S 

Pond,  Mari  (Bullard)   118 

Pond,  Miranda    129,  129 

Pond,  Philander    84 

Pond,  Rhoda  (Grinned)   118 

Pond,  Sabin   Peters   118 

Poole,  Edward  Everett 36 

Poole,  Harriet  Beecher 414 

Poole,  Jennie  (Fogg)   36 

Poole.  Joseph  Warren 35 

Poole,  Ludo  Fiske   414 

Poole,  Mary  Josselyn   414 

Poole,  Rachel  Blanehard   20,  35 

Porter,  Annie  Baldwin   180 

Porter,  Clara  (Baldwin)     189 

Porter,  Clara  Grace    189 

Porter,  Edward  Jarvis   215 

Porter,  Edwin    189 

Porter,  Jane  F 119 

Porter,  Judge  (of  Queechy,  Vt.)    119 

Porter, Laura  Maxwell  2/5 

Porter,  Pauline   Elizabeth    189 

Porter,  Richard  215 

Porter,  Roger  W 189 

Porter,  Ruth   (Gardner)   215 

Potter,  Jannette  A 353 

Potter,  Rev.  John    Dyer   387 

Potter,  Luella  A 77 

Potter,  Maria    67 

Potter,  Mary    379 

Potter,  Rebecca  W 121 


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Potter,  Sarah   (Hastings)    387 

Potts,  Sylvia  Elizabeth  53 

Potts,  Sylvia  (Koch)   53 

Potts.  Thomas  W.   53 

Powell,  Aaron  M 121 

Powell,  Judith  Anna  (Rice)   ...  121 

Powers,  Adelphia  .Inn  21  p,  463 

Powers,  Anne  (Stevens)    414 

Powers,  Clarissa  (Patrick)   ....  463 

Powers,  Cora  Isabel  le //  / 

Powers,  John  Haskel 463 

Powers,  John  J 4 1 4 

Powers,  Maria 342,  342 

Pratt,  Aaron   41 

Pratt,  Adeline    50 

Pratt,  Bathsheba   (Delvey)    ....  416 

Pratt,  Daniel    416 

Pratt,  Elizabeth    (Whitney)    ...  416 

Pratt,  Emeline 141 

Pratt,  Lucie  D 416 

Pratt,  Marian  E 416 

Pratt,  Molly   41 

Pratt.  Mrs 238 

Pratt,  Samuel  A 416 

Prentice,  Henry    41 

Prentice,  Martha  R 182 

Prentice,  Molly  (  Pratt )   41 

Prentice,    Dr.    Nathaniel    Shep- 
herd      182 

Prentice,  Sarah    26 

Prentice,  Rev.  Solomon   95 

Prentice,  Susan  Pratt   39 

Prescott,  Delia  Graves   216 

Prescott,  Emma    216 

Prescott,  Henry  Allen 216 

Prescott,  John    216 

Prescott,  Mary  (Platts)   216 

Prest,  Alice   360 

Prest,  Emma  Alice   (  Day)    ....  360 

Prest.  William    360 

Preston,  F.  Louise   HQ 

Preston,  Fanny   (Manning)     119,120 

Preston,  John  H 119,  120 

Preston,  Mary  G 120 

Priest,  Degory    35 

Prime,  Carroll  Rossiter   123 

Prime,  D.  W 123 

Prime,  Virginia  (  Rossiter)   ....  123 

Prince.  Gov.  Thomas 59 

Priscilla(see  Mullins,  Priscilla) 

Proffitt,  Rev.  A.  11 130 

Proffitt,  Kate   I  Pease)    130 

Prouty,  Eliza  Ann   248 

Provan,  Albert   William  109 

Provan,  Beatrice    109 

I  'y<  >\  an.  ( Caroline  (  Mann  )   108 

Provan.  Carrie  Alice  108 

Provan,  Lizzie  Idalia 108 

Provan,  Dr.   Robert   108 


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Provan,  Robert   Alexander    ....    109 

Putnam,  Benjamin   374 

Putnam.  Rev.  George  A 421 

Putnam,  Gen.  Israel   129,436 

Putnam,  L.  Sophia 374 

Putnam,  Louisa   (Sabin)    421 

Putnam,  Lucy  (Gale  )   374 

Putnam,  Samuel   374 

Pyne.  Henry  C 212 

Pyne.  Sarah    (McFarland)    ....   212 

Quimby,  Horace  A 416 

Quimby,  Martha  (Sanborn)    ...   416 
Quimby.  Sarah  Elizabeth 416 

Randall.  Eliza  (Gleason)    217 

Randall,  Ella  Frances  217 

Randall,  Josiah    217 

Randies,  Lulu   Edith   225 

Randolph,  Belle  M 321 

Randolph,  Edward  Fitz   322 

Randolph,  Malvina   (  Dunn)    .  .  .  322 

Randolph.  Gov.   Theodore  F.   .  .  322 

Randolph.  Rev.  Warren  321 

Rawson,  Amy   (  Fowler)    370 

Rawson,  Edward  120 

Rawson,  George    120 

Rawson,  Rev.  Grindall   120 

Rawson,  John  C 370 

Rawson,  Lois    (Aldrich )    120 

Rawson,  Salona  Aldrich    120 

Rawson.  William    120 

Ray,  Annie   (Kemp)    208 

Ray,  Edward   W 208 

Ray,  Franklin  A 208 

Ray,  George  H 208 

Ray,  Henry  G 208 

Raymond,  Caroline  P.  .  . 328,  451 .  452 

Raymond,  Sarah    (  Clark  )    328 

Raymond.  Theodore    328 

Read,  Julia  M 357 

Read,  Sarah  Ann   169 

Redding.  Abby  Elizabeth   416 

Redding,  Abigail    (McCrillis)  ..  416 

Redding,  John   416 

Reed.  A.  Josic  417 

Reed,  Alice  226 

Reed,  Annie   380 

Reed.  Charles    226 

Reed,  Clara  Everett    379 

Reed,  Clara   (Hamilton)   379 

Reed,  Dwight 314 

Reed,  Eleanor  Hunter 331 

Reed.  Faith  Hamilton 380 

Reed,  Florence    226 

Reed,  Frederick  E 226 

Reed,  George  A 417 

Reed,  Margaret   226 

Reed.  Mary  Emma    314 


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Reed,  Roger  Everett   380 

Reed,  Sarah   ( Wood)    226 

Reed,  Sumner  H 379 

Reed,  Susan  (  Gurney  )    417 

Reed,  Susannah  (  Vaughan  )    .  .  .    314 

Reid.  Malinda  M.  .  . . .' 386 

Reilly.  P.  H 239 

Remington,  Rebecca  P 121 

Remington,  Rebecca    (Potter)..    121 
Remington.  Samuel  Tower   ....    121 

Reynolds.  Annie  Estelle 181 

Reynolds,  Candace  Wilcox   ....    181 

Reynolds,  Everett  Pearl  181 

Reynolds,  Hattie  Anna   285 

Reynolds,  James  Pearl   181 

Reynolds,  James  William   181 

Reynold-.  Julia    (Tucker)    285 

Reynolds,  Juliet    (Wilcox)    ....    181 

Reynolds.  Justin   285 

Reynolds.  Sarah  Knowles  181 

Rhodes.  Alice    (Everett)    364 

Rhodes,  Herbert   364 

Rhodes,  Joanna  (Arnold)    202 

Rhodes,  Zachariah    202 

Rice,  Abbie  L 310 

Rice,  Alida  (Norton)    411 

Rice,  Asa     217 

Rice,  Catherine   (Davis)    217 

Rice,  Charlotte  K 121 

Rice,  Elizabeth  Goddard    296 

Rice,  Elizabeth  Janes  430 

Rice,  Ezra    310 

Rice,  George  E 411 

Rice,  Gersham   186 

Rice,  Hannah  (Washburn)   ....    121 

Rice,  John    121 

Rice,  Jonas   121 

Rice,  Judith  Anna  121 

Rice,  Lizzie  S 217 

Rice.  Luther 217 

Rice,  Luthera   (Knowlton)    ....   310 

Rice,  Mary    299 

Rice.  Mary  Stevens   186 

Rice.  Miriam    (Howe)    121 

Rice,  Sarah  Jane 20,  21  p,  122 

Rice,  Sewall   121 

Rich,  H.  H 237 

Richards,  Rhoda  A 308 

Richardson.  Abigail  Scudder   ..    123 

Richardson,  Amelia   65 

Richardson,  Elizabeth    348 

Richardson,  Elmira    319 

Richardson,  Capt.  Josiah   123 

Richardson,  Sophia   (Howe)    ..    123 

Richmond,  Angeline  P 339 

Rider,  Ellen   (King)    462 

Rider,  Freddie  462 

Rider,  Inga  T 462 

Rider,  Wilson  J 462 


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Riley,  Calvin    190 

Riley,  Catherine   .'.    189 

Riley,  Eleanor   (Montague)    ...    190 

Riley,  Eunice  M.   (     )    190 

Riley,  Peter    190 

Riley,  Richard  Montague 190 

Rindge,  Angeline    347 

Roach,  Hannah    (Freeman)    ...     89 

Roach,  I.  F 89 

Roath,  Isaac  C .   203 

Roath,  Lizzie    (Goodwin)    203 

Robbins,  Elliott  Beebe   340 

Robbins,  Dr.  Elliott  D 340 

Robbins,  Harold  H 340 

Robbins,  Helen  E 266 

Robbins,  Marion  340 

Robbins,  Nettie   (Beebe)    340 

Robbins,  Rebecca  Greene 265 

Robert,  Agnes   (Thomas)    179 

Robert,  James  A 179 

Robinson,  Gov.   Charles    7,  8,  17 

Robinson,  Charlotte    (Rice)    .  .  .    121 

Robinson,  Edwin  Draper 280 

Robinson,  Eliza  (Draper)    280 

Robinson,  Emeline    (Kellogg)..   418 

Robinson,  Ferdinand 418 

Robinson,  Frank  Henry 121 

Robinson,  George  418 

Robinson,  Dr.  J.  Henry 121 

Robinson,  Rev.  John   86 

Robinson,  Dr.  Joseph  H 280 

Robinson,  Lurana    86 

Robinson,  Margaret  Lillian  ....    107 

Robinson,  May  418 

Robinson,  Richard  Shaw  121 

Robinson,  Sally 291 

Rockefeller,  Alice    126 

Rockefeller,  Alta    126 

Rockefeller,  Bessie    126 

Rockefeller,  Edith    126 

Rockefeller,  John  D 126 

Rockefeller,  John  D.,  Jr 126 

Rockefeller,    Laura    (  Spelman  )  126, 
243,  432,  455 

Rockwood,  Arthur  Jones 202 

Rockwood,  Catherine  (Dwight)  202 
Rockwood,  Charles  Frederic  ...  202 
Rockwood,  Dwight  Carrington  203 
Rockwood,  Ebenezer  Arthur  ..  202 
Rockwood,  Edward  Farnum  ...  203 
Rockwood,  Edward  Vermilye  ..  202 

Rockwood,  Hannah  Ellis 64 

Rockwood,  J.  E 203 

Rockwood,  L.  Leander  123 

Rockwood, Mary  4 i-3 

Rockwood,  Mary  (Farnum)  ...  203 
Rockwood,  Mary  (  Morse)  ....  T23 
Rockwood, William  Patten  ....  202 
Rogers,  Amanda   (Atwood)    ...   218 


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Rogers,  Daisy  Edith   393 

Rogers,  Daniel    56 

Rogers,  Elizabeth   (Gorham)    ..  56 

Rogers,  Emeline  Davis 55,  S7 

Rogers,  Emma   (Lamb)    393 

Rogers,  Estelle  A 218 

Rogers,  George  H 393 

Rogers,  George  S 218 

Rogers,  Grace  Ethelyn   393 

Rogers,  John    55 

Rogers,  Rev.  John   56 

Rogers,  Mary  (Rice)   186 

Rogers,  Nellie  Frances 185 

Rogers,  Patience  (Dudley)   ....  56 

Rogers,  Thomas    186 

Rogers,  Thomas  Moore   185 

Rollins,  Enoch  N 286 

Rollins,  Etta  J 286 

Rollins,  Gertrude    118 

Rollins,  Hannah  (Peters)    117 

Rollins,  John  T 117 

Rollins,  Malinda   (Taft )    286 

Rollins,  Nora  (Graham)    118 

Rollins,  Onslow  Peters 118 

Rollins,  Paul  Eugene  117 

Rose,  Abram  Taylor  330 

Rose,  Mary  (Brayton)    330 

Rose,  Mary  C 330 

Ross,  Ella  Frances 419 

Ross,  Emma  R 310,  454 

Ross,  Isaac   310 

Ross,  Isaac  Newton 310 

Ross,  Juliette    (  Warner  )    419 

Ross,  Maria   (Wright)    310 

Ross,  Capt.  William  R 419 

Rossiter,  Edward    123 

Rnssiter,  Electa  (Barlow)   123 

Rossiter,  Josiah    123 

Rossiter,  I  'irginia  H 123 

Roundey,  Sarah  Bray  .  .41,  42  p,  45  p 

Rounds,  Armilla  Emerson 381 

Rowe,  Benjamin  T 374 

Rowe,  Dorothy  Webster  336 

Rowe,  Emma   (  Galon  )    374 

Rowe,  Eva   (  Andrews)    336 

Rowe,  Luzanne  Loomis   374 

Rowe,  W.  11.  G 33<> 

Roys,  Auretta    334 

Russell, .  Ihbie  S 237,  420 

Russell,  Alexander   333 

Russell,  Charles  A 348 

Russell,  I  ton.  Charles  A 421 

Russell,  Deborah     -|22 

Russell,  Ella  (Sayles)   421 

Russell,  <  leorge  420 

Russell,  Helen   (  Butterick)   ....  348 

Russell,  [da    (  Conner)    333 

Russell ,  Marianne   420 

Russell,  Mary  Ann    (Warren)..  420 


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Russell.  Mary   (Childs)    420 

Russell.  Sabin  Sayles  422 

Russell,  William  L 420 

Ryan.  Mary  Marion 372 

Ryder.  Edwin  F 441 

Ryder,  Elmira  (  Warren  )   441 

Ryder.  Gertrude  Elvira  441 

Sabin,  George    421 

Sabin, H.  Louisa  421 

Sabin.  Hannah    (Waters)    421 

Sabin,  Rev.  Lewis  49 

Saft'ord,  Henrietta    113 

Salisbury,  Lucy  22,  22 

Sanborn,  Martha  Morgan   416 

Sanford,  Dr.  A.  Chase   350 

Sanf ord,  Bordena    65 

Sanford,  Charitta  Latona    65 

Sanford,  Cora  Gertrude 350 

Sanford,  Henrietta    64 

Sanford,  Mary  (Cottrell)    350 

Sanford,  Samuel  Newton  Folius     65 

Sanford,  Samuel  Tripp 65 

Sanford,  Susan  (Borden)   65 

Sanford,  Threlia  Dimple   65 

Sargeant,  Emma  C 315 

Sargeant,  Hugh    315 

Sargeant.  Mary  (Duncan)  ....  315 
Sargeant,  Phineas   Osgood    ....   315 

Sargent,  Adelaide 342 

Sargent,  Anna   421 

Sargent,  Annie   (Bisco)    84,  342 

Sargent.  Clara  (Allen)   . 188 

Sargent,  Digby    421 

Sargent,  Edith  Clara 188 

Sargent,  Fred  Augustus 188 

Sargent,  George  Allen  188 

Sargent,  Grace  (Andrews)    ....   225 

Sargent,  H.  E 224 

Sargent,  Harriet  (Taft)    206 

Sargent,  Helen    (White)    224 

Sargent,  Joseph  Bradford  ...84,342 
Sargent,  Joseph  Bradford.  Jr...  342 
Sargent.  Rev.  Lucius  Manlius.  .   188 

Sargent,  Lucius  Walter   188 

Sargent,  Mildred   342 

Sargent,  Nancy  Ann   (Page)    ..  421 

Sargent,  Nelson   421 

Sargent,  Nelson  Warren   188 

Sargent,  Paul  Dudley   206 

Sargent,  William  L 225 

Sargent,  Winthrop  Bisco 342 

Saville,  Anne  (Leonard)   123 

Saville,  Annie  Woodbury   123 

Saville,  David    123 

Sawyer,  Mary  G 218 

Sayles,  Albert   L 422 

Sayles,  Deborah  (Mitchell)  ...  421 
Sayles,  Ella  F 421 


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Sayles,  Fannie   (Warner)    422 

Sayles,  Lizzie   M \2l 

Sayles,  X  el  lie  M 422 

Sayles,  Sabin  L 42 1 

Schneider,  Gertrude    (Clapp)    ..   274 

Schneider,  R.  C 274 

Schoff,  Charles  Parker  69 

Schoff,  Pauline   (  Blanchard  )    .  .     69 

Scott,  Alice   123 

Scott.  Charles  N 376 

Scott,  David 423 

Sou,  Ella   (Goddard)    376 

Scott,  Lucinda   (  Fay  )    423 

Seagrave,  Nancy    136 

Seamans,  Emelia  (Steele)   ..231.245 
Seamans,  M.  Antoinette  244.  245,  327 

Seamans,  Otis  Arnold 245 

Searle,  Augusta  (Blood)   273 

Searle,  Edith   L 273 

Searle,  Helen  156 

Searle,  Henry    156 

Searle.  Myron  E 273 

Sears.  Pres.  Barnas  5 

Seaver,  Abram  W 218 

Seaver,  Anna   M.    .  .21S,  451,  452,  45s 
Seaver,  Maria  (Mandell)  . ... . .   218 

Segar,  Helen  Brazening   423 

Segar,  Mary  Ann  (  Browning)  .  .   423 

Segar,  William  Francis   423 

Shattuck,  Annie  Kingsbury  ....   391 

Shattuck,  Charles  E 391 

Shattuck,  Edmund  James 410 

Shattuck.  Edmund  J.,  Jr 410 

Shattuck,  Emily    (  Kingsbury  ) .  .   391 
Shattuck,  Emma  (Morrill)   ....   410 

Shattuck, Harriette  Anna   423 

Shattuck,  John    423 

Shattuck,  John  2d  425 

Shattuck,  Lois  M 410 

Shattuck,  Louise  M 410 

Shattuck,  Mary  Kingsbury   ....   391 

Shattuck,  Mary  Lucinda   423 

Shattuck.  Mary  (  Shattuck  )     ...   423 

Shattuck.  Maude  A 410 

Shattuck.  Robert  Kingsbury  . .  .  391 
Shattuck,  Samuel   Pepperell    .  .  .   423 

Shattuck,  Sarah  B 71 

Shattuck,  Sarah  Bond   Morrill..   410 

Shattuck.  William    423 

Shaw.  Enoch    29 

Shaw,  Isaac    89 

Shaw.  Rev.  M.  B 89 

Shaw.  Mary  Sophia    29 

Shaw.  Mary  (  Upham  )     29 

Shaw.  Salome  (Freeman)   89 

Sheldon,  Gilbert    1 24 

Sheldon,  Horace   424 

Sheldon, Huldah  Dorcas  219 

Sheldon,  Katie  L 424 


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Sheldon,  Capt.  Pardon 124,  219 

Sheldon,  Rebecca  Aborn   124 

Sheldon,  Rebecca   (Aborn)  .  .  124,  219 
Shepard,  Ellie  (Sumner)   ...268,432 

Shepard,  Frederick  J 268,  432 

Shepardson,  Addie  F 241 

Shepardson,  Daniel    240 

Shepardson, Ella  S.  ...241,277  p,  278 
Shepardson, Rev.  John   146,227-229, 

240,  278 
Shepardson,    Maria    ( Chamber- 
lain)     240,278 

Shepardson,  Maria   (Jones)    ...  241 

Shepardson,    Prudence    (Cook)  240 

Sherman,  Alice  Louise  204 

Sherman,  Bertha  C 292 

Sherman,  Charles  Greene 204 

Sherman,  Harold  Frederick   .  . .  204 

Sherman,  Hon.  John  424 

Sherman,  Lucy    243 

Sherman,       Martha       Gertrude 

(Greene)    204 

Sherman,  Mary  (Bliss)    424 

Sherman,  Mary  M 424 

Sherman,  Nathaniel 424 

Sherman,  Roger    243 

Sherman,  Susan    270 

Sherman,  William  Frederick  .  .  .  204 

Sherman,  William  N 424 

Sherman,  Gen.  William  T 424 

Shipley,  Joseph  Lucian 132 

Shipley,  Margaret   (Weeks)    ...  132 

Shippee,  Horace  J 426 

Ship  pec,  Mary  E 426 

Shippee,  Mary  (Wightman)   ...  426 

Shirk,  Elbert  Walker 441 

Shirk,  Ellen  (Walker)    441 

Shirk,  Joseph  Henry 441 

Shirk,  Milton    441 

Sibley,  Almira  Esther 2 jo 

Sibley,  Daniel    220 

Sibley,  Elijah  220 

Sibley,  Pamelia   (Jones)    220 

Sidefinger,  Bertha   398 

Sidelinger,  Eleanor    398 

Sidelinger,  George    398 

Sidelinger,  George   B 398 

Sidelinger,  Nellie    (Loring)    ...  398 

Si  1  shy,  Caroline 70,  7° 

Siincs,  Francis  Elizabeth   44') 

Simmons,  Amy  A 221 

Simmons,  Martha   (Earle)    ....  221 

Simmons,  William  W 221 

Simonds, Adelaide  (Wheeler)..  135 

Simonds,  Alice   Esabelle   135 

Simonds,  Benjamin   Wheeler   ..  135 

Simonds,  Donald  Dwight 407 

Simonds,  Edwin  A 135 

Simonds,  Ida  (Merriam)  407 


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Simonds,  Mary  Adelaide  135 

Simonds,  Raloh  Merriam 407 

Simonds,  S.  Dwight 407 

Simonds,  Stella  Salome   407 

Simons,  Caroline  (Harrington)    177 

Simons,  Jane  Olivia 177 

Simons,  Thomas   177 

Sinnicks,  Abbie  (Rice)   310 

Sinnicks,  S.  A 310 

Slater,  Georgia    179 

Sleeper,  Mabel    (Allen)    137 

Sleeper,  Rev.  William  W 137 

Slocomb,  Cynthia  Adams 321 

Sly,  Adaline    (Aldrich  )    304 

Sly,  Amos  T 304 

Sly,Lula  M 304 

Small,  Susan   E 374 

Smiley,  Adelaide  I^anc    169,  237, 

272  p 

Smiley,  Agnes  (      )   169 

Smiley,  Elizabeth   (Lane)    169 

Smiley,  Francis   169 

Smiley,  Dr.  James  R 169 

Smiley,  Lucien    333 

Smiley,  Martha    (Hunkins)    ...   333 

Smiley,  Mattie  L 333 

Smiley,  Ruth  (  Dustin  )   333 

Smiley,  William    169 

Smith,  Abbie    341 

Smith,  Abbie  Josephine    426 

Smith,  Adelia  A 426 

Smith,  Albina    192 

Smith,  Alice    (Wheelock)    443 

Smith,  Angeline   (Holbrook)    ..     50 

Smith,  Anne 4-12 

Smith,  Arthur   Lockwood    413 

Smith,  Benoni    442 

Smith,  Brainerd  H 290 

Smith, Carrie  Wheaton   427 

Smith,  Charles  F 255 

Smith,  Charles  Thomas 119 

Smith,  D.  Carlos 426 

Smith,  Edwin    427 

Smith,  Elisha  221 

Smith,  Eliza  ( Bates  )    255 

Smith,  Eunice    (Garfield)    426 

Smith  (  family  of  R.  I.)   127 

Smith,  Florence   (Garretson)    ..   413 

Smith,  Frank  L 447 

Smith,  Frederic  Wilmarth 447 

Smith,  Freelove  (Boss)    381 

Smith,  George   426 

Smith,  George  M 50 

Smith,  Hannah  (  Jenckes  >   427 

Smith,  Harriet  (  Dunham)    186 

Smith,  Harriet  (  Faraway)      ....    -\2/ 

Smith,  Hattie  A 186 

Smith,  Rev.    I  lenry   R 443 

Smith,  Lieut.  James  427 


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PAGE 

Smith,  James  Arnold  427 

Smith,  Jane   (Porter)    119 

Smith,  Capt.  John  or  Johnathan  381, 
4-27 

Smith.  Col.  John 404 

Smith,  Capt.  Johnathan  381 

Smith,  Lieut.  Jonathan   427 

Smith,  Katharine   (Mcintosh).,    no 

Smith,  Leon  Hills   443 

Smith,  Lucy  M 288 

Smith,  M.  F no 

Smith,  Mabel  (  Boyd )   290 

Smith,  Mahala   (Ketcham)    ....  426 

Smith,  Margaret  Sprague   106 

Smith,  Mary    t,7J 

Smith,  Mary  Anna   12 ~, 

Smith,  Mary  Celinda    725 

Smith,  Mary  Etta    427 

Smith.  Mary  (  Gibbs  )     125 

Smith,  Mary  J : 94,  20s; 

Smith,  Mary  J.  (  "Molly"  )   221 

Smith,  Mary  (  Parish)     125 

Smith.  Nellie    (  Grout )    95 

Smith,  Nettie   160 

Smith,  Robert    427 

Smith,  Rolfe  Wheelock  443 

Smith,  Ruth  (Wilmarth)   447 

Smith,  Sally  (  Robinson  )    291 

Smith,  Samuel  186 

Smith,  Samuel    291 

Smith,  Sarah  (Hopkins)     .  .  .381,427 

Smith,  Sarah  M 12 5 

Smith,  Sarah  Maria  291 

Smith,  Susie    160 

Smith,  Sydney  Barlow   125 

Smith,  Thomas  Hodgkins   125 

Smith,  Rev.  William  S 95 

Somes,  Isaac    56 

Soule,  George  170 

Soule,  John   170 

Soule,  Rebekah    170 

Souls,  Ellen   (Jordan)    104 

Souls,  William    104 

Souther,  Anna  Blanchard   253 

Souther,  Christine    81 

Souther,  Elizabeth    81 

Souther,  Elizabeth  (Newland)  .  .     81 

Souther,  Gertrude    81 

Souther,  Dr.  W.  T 81 

Southwick,  Belle    427 

Southwick,  Emory  S 427 

Southwick,  Capt.  Henry  K 87 

Southwick,  Sarah    (Fiske)    ....     87 

Southwick.  Sarah   (Fitts)    427 

Spaulding,  Emily  W 21 

Spaulding,  Emma  ijS 

Spaulding,  Erastus 178 

Spaulding,  Florence    (Dean)    .  .    176 
Spaulding,  Harlan  Page 176 


Spaulding,  Lucy    ( Locke)    178 

Spelman,  Harvey  B.,  125,  126,  127.243 

S  pel  man,  Laura  C 125,  452,  455 

:  Spelman,  Lucy   (  1  [enry  )    ...  123.  127 

Spelman,  Lucy  M 126  p,  727 

Spellman,  Katie   (Sheldon)    ....   424 

Spellman,  Walter   424 

Spencer, .  Ignes  Isabel 42S 

Spencer,  Lydia   (      )    428 

Spencer,  Mary  (  Mather  )    428 

Spencer,  Nathaniel   42S 

Spencer,  Phoebe 361 

Spencer,  Roswell  Doane 42S 

Spencer,  William    361 

Sperry,  Mary  M 727 

Spink,  Frances  A 222 

Spink,  Huldah  (  Weeden  )    .  .222,  287 

Spink ,  Mary  Fowler   286 

Spink,  Nicholas  (  1800 )    287 

Spink,  Nicholas  N 222,  286 

Spink,  Robert  (  1635  )    286 

Spinney,  Blanche  Gardner 429 

Spinney,  Rev.  E.  C 429 

Spinney,  Josephine   (Chase)    ...   429 

Spinney,  Maude  Josephine 429 

Spooner,  Sarah    448 

Sprague,  Albert  D 83 

Sprague,  Dr.  Albert  G 83 

Sprague,  Gen.  Augustus  Brown 

Reed 430 

Sprague,  Elizabeth  (  Rice  )   430 

Sprague,  Ellen   (  Duncan  )    83 

Sprague,  Josephine  Elisabeth  ..   430 

Sprague,  Mary  Emma 83 

Sprague,  Mary  Tiller  117 

Sprague,  William   430 

Sprout,  Annie  Elizabeth 431 

Sprout,  Bradford    311 

Sprout,  Emeline    379 

Sprout,  Lucia   (Train)    311 

Sprout,  Nellie  Amanda J77 

Spurr  (  Charlton  family )   365 

Stacey,  Marv   340 

Stall,  Mary  E 222 

Stall,  Samuel   222 

Standish,  Capt.   Miles   361,428 

Staples,  Elizabeth  (Godfrey)    .  .     36 
Staples, Hamilton  Barclay  .  . .  .20,36 

Staples,  Mary   (Dewey)    36 

Starr,  A  lire  Harriette  300 

Starr.  Clarissa   (Blanchard)   300.301 

Starr,  Dr.  Comfort  300 

Starr,  Hon.  Parley 300 

Stearns,  A.  J 405 

Stearns,  Alice   (Wheeler)    405 

Stearns,  Ann  Maria 447 

Steams.  Prof.  C.  C 22S,  237,  265 

Stearns,  Charles    265 

Stearns,  Edmund    385 


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Stearns,  Eliza  (Howe)   431 

Stearns,  Frank  K 385 

Stearns,  Gertrude  (Bottomry)..   266 

Stearns,  Hattie  L 431 

Stearns,  Helen  Hutchinson  ....   385 

Stearns,  Idabel    (House)    385 

Stearns,  Linda  Osgood 385 

Stearns,  Rebecca  (Robbins)   ...   265 

Stearns,  Timothy  L 431 

Stedman,  John  Porter 222 

Sled  man,  Mary  Louise   222 

Stedman,  Thais    (Hooker)    ....   222 
Steele,  Catherine    (Burden)    ...   431 

Steele,  Emelia   245 

Steele,  Helen  B 431 

Steele,  Lieut.  James 245 

Steele,  Michael  McClary  431 

Stephens,  Mrs 138 

Stetson,  Martin  W 127 

Stetson,  Ruth   (  Stockbridge)    ..   127 

Stetson,  Ruth  W 127 

Stevens,  Anne  Maria 414 

Stevens,  Chloe  69 

Stevens,  Mrs.  David 60 

Stevens,  Pres.  John   415 

Stevens,  Mary  C 354 

Stevens,  Solomon   415 

Stevens,  Prof.  William  A 415 

Stickney,  Frank  Hale   427 

Stickney,  Mary  Etta  (Smith)  .  .   427 

Stiles,  Frederick  Green   54 

Stiles,  Frederick  W 55 

Stiles  Hubert  A 55 

Stiles,  Melinda  (Andrews)   ....     54 

Stillings,  Celia  (  Kemp )    210 

Stillings,  Charles  A 210 

Stillings,  E.  B 210 

Stillings,  Marie  L 210 

Stillman,  Thankful   285 

Stillwell,  Abbie  Davis  164, 169 

Stillwell,  Samuel  Seabury  169 

Stillwell,  Sarah   (Read)    169 

Stockbridge,  Ruth  B 127 

Stoddard,  Laura  E 217 

Stoddard,  Lois  N 203 

Stone,  A.  Harry  354 

Stone,  Ada  B 406 

Stone,  Admiral  P 104 

Stone,  Alice  (Mcintosh)   406 

Stone,  Annie  (Osgood)   104 

Stone,  Arthur   Crawford   354 

Stone,  Bertha  L 407 

Stone,  Dolly  L 407 

Stone.  Edith  A 406 

Stone,    Elizabeth    (Hutchinson)   104 

Stone,  Eugene  II 406 

Stone,  Eva  F 406 

Stone,  Everett  M 407 

Stone,  Lydia  E 44I-441 


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Stone,  Nellie  Crawford 354 

Stone,  Nettie  (Crawford)   354 

Stone,  Rhoda  84 

I  Stone,  Ruth  G 407 

Stone,  W.  Herbert  406 

I  Stone,  Walter  E 406 

Stone,  William  C 104 

Story,  Catherine   (  Bruce  )    266 

Story,  Cyrus    266 

Story,  Prof .  Edwin  Bruce.  .236,  237, 

266 

Story,  Helen  Bruce    266 

Story,  Helen  (Robbins)    266 

Story,  Marion  Barnes 266 

Stowell,  Charles  G 444 

Stowell,  Florence   (Whidden)  .  .   444 

Stratton,  Charles   T 432 

Stratton,  Daniel    302 

Stratton,  Eliza  (Curtis)   302 

Stratton,  Eva  278 

.Stratton,  George  K 278 

Stratton,  Herbert    278 

Stratton,  Ida  Eliza 302 

Stratton, 1 'sab elle  C 432 

Stratton,  Jane   (  Griffin)    432 

Stratton,  Mary  (Hastings)    ....   278 

Stratton,  Robert    278 

Strong,  Harriet   (Farnham)    ...   325 

Strong,  John  Hooker    325 

Strong,  Laura  Terrill  J25 

Stuart,  James  C 192 

Stuart,  Sarah  (Bosworth)   192 

Studley.  Helena  ( Parker)    117 

Studley,  Theodore   E 117 

Sturtevant,  Miss  A.  L 237 

Sumner,  Rev.  C.  B 222 

Sumner,  Charles  J 350 

Sumner,  Dwight   258 

Sumner,  Edward  Ludwig 268 

Sumner.  Ellie  Josephine  .  . .  .268,  432 

Sumner,  George  Stedman    223 

Sumner,  George  William    268 

Sumner,  Gertrude   (Cottrell)    ..   350 

Sumner,  Helen   223 

Sumner,  Marion  (Howard)  235,238, 

-'6/.  432 
Sumner,  Mary    (  Stedman  )    ....   222 

Sumner,  Nellie   (Durell)    258 

Sumner,  William    267,  432 

Swain,  Frances  (  Clark  )   28 

Swain,  William   F 28 

Swan,  Clara    254 

Swan,  Samuel    254 

Swander,  Jennie  M 170 

Swander,  Dr.  W.  II 170 

Sweet,  Annie   (Sprout)    43 r 

Sweet,  Katherine    211 

Sweet,  Robert  Bradford 431 

Sweet,  Walter  A 43 1 


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Sweetser,  Anna  Brigham 299 

SymoriSj  Mary  432 

Taft,  Alice  Gertrude 118 

Taft,  Anna  Inez   119 

Taft,  Arthur  Irving 119 

Taft,  Betsey  (Northam)    434 

Taft.  C.  F 306 

Taft,  Calvin   26 

Taft,  Charles  Edward   118 

Taft,  Cornelia  (Brigham  )    26 

Taft,  Daniel  Waldo 433 

Taft,  David  Andrews   118 

Taft,  Edwin  L 416 

Taft  (family  of  Mendon  )   433 

Taft,  Gilbert  C 463 

Taft,  Hannah    (Pond)    118 

Taft.  Helen  M 463 

Taft,  Henrietta   (Goulding)    ...   433 

Taft,  Henry   257 

Taft,  Irene    433,  443 

Taft,  J.  Frank 306 

Taft.  Jacob,  Jr 433 

Taft,  Jennie  Goulding 433 

Taft,  Josie  (  Brown  )   306 

Taft,  Josie  .1/ 434 

Taft,  Katie   (Dispeau)    257 

Taft,  Lucie  (Pratt )   416 

Taft,  Lucy  (Anderson)    463 

Taft,  Malinda    286 

Taft,  Moses    128 

Taft,  Orsinus    433 

Taft,  Robert    433 

Taft,  Ruth  E 306 

Taft,  Samuel  X 434 

Taft,  Sarah  Wood  128 

Taft,  Secretary  of  War  7 

Taft,  Sylvia   (Wheelock)    128 

Taintor,  Augusta  (Billings)  341,464 
Taintor,  Rev.  Charles  H.   ...341,4(14 

Tallman,  Ellen  J 333 

T  a  tie  x.Ella  M 435 

Tarbell,  Ethel    347 

Tarbell,  Eva  Maude 347 

Tarbell,  Fred  Loyal  347 

Tarbell,  Ida   (Butler)    347 

Tarbell,  Loyal  Elisha   347 

Tarbell,  Marion    347 

Tarbell,  Mildred   347 

Tarbell.  Philip   347 

Tarble,  Nancy    257 

Taverner,  Prof.  J.  W 21,37 

Taylor,  Delia  H 324 

Taylor,  Florence  A 348 

Taylor.  Lucy  H 128 

Taylor.  Mary  Ann   81 

Temple,  Annah  W 106 

Temple,  Charles  Edward 130 

Temple,  Rev.  Charles  M 130  I 


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Temple,  Francis  Wayland  130 

Temple,  Harriet    (Waite)    130 

Temple,  Rosabelle  Clara 130 

Tew,  Mary   (  Clark  )    201 

Tew,  Richard 201 

Thayer,  Addison  P 435 

'Thayer,  Anna  C 10,  435 

Thayer,  Benjamin    6,  129 

Thayer,  Caroline  (Capron)  10,  iop, 
129,246.275.435,436,436 

Thayer.  C  lara  C 10,  149,  237,  27 5 

Thayer,  Clara  Louisa 433 

'Thayer.  Cora  P 10,  436 

Thayer,  Cushman   129,  129 

Thayer,  Edward  D 437 

Thayer.  Hon.  Eli  .  .6-10.  9  p,  10  p,  11, 
12.  14,  15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  20, 
20,  28,  30,  63,  70,  1 18,  129.  140, 
246,  273.  435,  436.  436,  449. 
450.  455 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Eli   10  p.  452 

Thayer,  Ellen   ( Darling)    437 

Thayer,  Ellis  (  Haynes)    307 

Thayer,  Emeline  S 354 

Thayer,  Esther  Ann 128 

Thayer,  Esther  Mann   81,  461 

Thayer.  Eva  Alden  10,  436 

Thayer,  Ferdinando 129 

Thayer,  George   10 

Thayer,  Herbert  E 307 

Thayer.  Ida  M. .  .  10,  I2g,  239,  345,  452, 

453- 455 
Thayer,  John  Alden    ...  10,  17  n,  238, 

-'^6.455 

Thayer,  Julia  F -. 21,  120 

Thayer,  Lizzie    (Flagg)    307 

Thayer,  Lydia  (Partridge)    ....   435 

"Thayer,  Margery  (  White  )   12N 

Thayer.  Mary  D I2Q- 

Thayer.  Miranda    (Pond)    ..129,129 

Thayer,  Nellie  Olive  437 

Thayer,  Rufus    128 

Thayer,  Ruth   (Alden)    6,129 

Thomas, .  Ignes  J 779 

Thomas,  Agnes    (  Martin  )    179 

Thomas,  Bertha  (  Sidelinger  )   .  .   398 

Thomas,  Isabel  A 77 

Thomas,  Jane    (  Simons)    178 

Thomas,  John  W 398 

Thomas,  Sarah   ( Keep)    105 

Thomas,  Sylvanus    179 

Thomas,  Rev.  Thomas   178 

Thomas.  William  H 105 

Thompson,  Charles  Horace  ....     48 

Thompson,  Charles  Oliver 48 

Thompson.  Eliza   (Butler)    ....     48 

Thompson,  Florence    223 

Thompson.  G  W 238 

Thompson,  Katharine  Maria  ...     48 


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Thompson,  Lewis  Sabin 48 

Thompson,  Maria  (Goodrich)..     48 

Thompson,  Naomi    100 

Thompson,  Susan  A 383,  383 

Thompson,  Rev.  William 48 

Thompson,  William  Goodrich  .  .     48 

Thorndike,  Mrs 21 

Thome,  Mrs.  M.J 238 

Thorpe,  Laura  L 170 

Thorpe,  Lucy  (Pattison)   170 

Thorpe,  Warren    170 

Thurber,  Stephen  G 287 

Thurber,  Susan  Elizabeth    ..287,299 

Thurber,  Susan  (  White  )   287 

Thwing,  Sylvia  Willard   ....293,318 

Tidd,  Adeline  Augusta 170 

Tidd,  John    171 

Tidd,  Lieut.  Joseph  170 

Tidd,  Sarah  Bond    409 

Tidd,  Sarah  (Monroe)   170 

Tift,  Mary    344 

Tift,  Solomon    344 

Tilley,  Elizabeth    56 

Tilley,  John    56 

Tillotson,  Mary  Jane 361 

Tilton,  Eliza   (  Emery)    291 

Tilton,  J.  Gertrude 291 

Tilton,  Josiah  H 182,  291 

Tilton.  Mary  Abbie   182,  291 

Tilton,  Marv  (  Emery)    182 

Tobin,  Alice  (Koch)  53 

T'obin,  Charles  P 53 

Tobin,  Charles  Robert    53 

Todd,  Alice  S 437 

Todd,  Christopher    198 

Todd,  Jehiel   437,438 

Todd,  Lydia  198 

Todd.  Minnie  J 438 

Todd,  Susan  (  Whitman  )   .  .  .437,  438 

Tolman,  Albert   43<s 

Tolman,  Hudson    276 

Tul man .  Louise  E 276 

Tolman,  Lusannah  (Whitin)    ..  438 

Tolman,  Lydia  (Howard)   276 

Tnliiian.  Mary  Lusannah    .  .  . 438,  454 

Tooker,  Leonora  B 2^7 

Tourtellot,  Abraham   124 

Tourtellot,  I  )orcas    124 

Tourtellot,  Marie  (Bernon)    ...    124 

I  ourtellot,  Mary  .  Inn   130 

I  ourtellot,  Mary  Ann(  Williams)   130 

Tourtellot,  Paris  [30 

Tourtellotte,  Lucy  Ann   3(17 

I  ourtellotte,  Lydia  I  >yke  400 

I  <  iwer,  Bessie   (  West )   279 

Tower,  Ella   (Shepardson)  .  .241,  27c' 

I  ower,  Ethel   E 279 

Tower,  Rev,  Francis  E 241,279 

Tower,  Kate  1 283 


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Tower,  Lucy   (Foster)    283 

Tower,  Maude  H 279 

Tower,  Oren    283 

Tower,  Ralph  W 279 

Train,  Lucia  311 

Treadwell,  Elizabeth  Brown  ...  66 
Treadwell,  John  Passmore  ....  66 
Treadwell,  Harriet  (Brown)  ..  66 
Treadwell,  Robert  Hastings   ...     66 

Treadwell,  Dr.  Passmore 66 

Treadwell,  Thomas  Percy 66 

Trefry,  Mary  A 83 

Trow,  Capt.  Bartholomew 72 

Trow,  Bartholomew,  Jr 72 

Trowbridge,  William    308 

Tuck,  Eben  Baker   316 

Tuck,  Ellen  Luetta  316,  455 

Tuck,  Lydia    (Frye)    316 

Tuck,  Thomas   316 

Tuck,  Capt.   William    316 

Tucker,  Charles  James    .  .  .269,  269  p 

Tucker,  Ethel  S 410 

Tucker,  Gurdon  H 410 

Tucker,  Harvey  Judson  .  .  .269,  269  p 

Tucker,  Julia  E 285 

Tucker,  Rev.  T.  J 269 

Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  J 237 

Tucker,  Lizzie   (Newell)    M® 

Tucker,  Mary  Amanda    . .  .269,  269  p 

Tucker,  Mary  (Burns)    269 

Tucker,  Mary  Elizabeth    71,  72 

Tucker.  Mrs.  Mary  E 268.  455 

Tucker,  Newell   4in 

Tucker,  Robert    72 

Tucker,  Robert    285 

Tuller,  Elisha   439 

Tuller,  Frances  Hayden  439 

Tuller,  John   439 

Tuller,  Tibbie  B W 

Tuller.  William   Henry   439 

Tut  tie,  Georgia  T 3-'6 

Tuttle,  Sarah   (Keith)    326 

Tuttle,  Varnum  326 

Twichell,  Belle  (Forbes)   369 

Twichell,  Bertha  Forbes 369 

Twichell,  Emmons  Wight  369 

Twichell,  George  Forbes   369 

Twichell,  Louie  Belle   369 

Twichell,  Roxy   3(»> 

Twichell,  W.  Lowell   369 

Tyler,  Adaline  (Gov)   440 

Tyler,  I  [annah    Parkman   117 

Tyler,  I  [arriette  I  lardy 4(,2 

IvI.t,  Capt.  John   440 

Tyler,  Mary  .1 /  /" 

Tyler,  Sarah  Augusta  86 

Ulrich,  Anna  Marguerite  4'° 

Ulrich,  Esther  (  Munsill )  4'n 


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r  v.i 

Ulrich,  John 410 

Ulrich,  John  Munsill  410 

Ulrich,  Leslie  Borden   410 

Underwood,  Rev.   Enoch  I).  ...  187 

Underwood,    Harriet    (Denny)  [87 

Underwood,  Sarah  Katherine  ..  1S6 

Upham,  Elizabeth  360 

Upham,Emma  E 28s 

Upham,  Grace    168 

Upham,  Joel   Worthington    ....  283 

Upham,  Lydia  (Wheeler)    283 

Upham.  Alary    29 

Utley,  Eliza  (  Whittemore  )   ....  138 

Utley,  Grace 138 

Utley.  John  L [38 

Vagt,  Fransiska  Wilhelmine,  20.  2ip, 

37-368 

Valentine,  Maggie    228 

Van  Hooser,  Clara  Bell 168 

Vaughan,  Adele  (Fairbanks)   ..  139 

Vaughan,  Charles  A 139 

Vaughan,  George  Fairbanks  ...  139 

Vaughan,  Margaret    139 

Vaughan,  Susannah   314 

Vawter,  Prof.  A.  J 100 

Vawter,  Charlotte    (Hobart)    ..  100 

Vinton,  John    285 

Wachter,  Harry  \V 461 

Wachter,  Alabe'l    (  Whitney)    ...  461 

Wadlev.  Lydia  C 74 

Wadley,  Alary  (Clark)    74 

Wadlev,  Alary  H 74 

Wadlev,  Aloses    74 

Wadlev.  Aloses  D 74 

Wadlev.  Nellie    75 

Wadley,  William  Al 75 

Wait.  Caroline   (Warren)    225 

Wait.  Jennie    225 

Wait.  Alary  Jane  22? 

Wait.  Nelson   225 

Waite,  Clarissa    (  Lakin  )    130 

Waite.  David   130 

Waite.  Hannah  Parks 84 

Waite,  Harriet  F 130 

Waite.  Alary  Cahoone 317 

Wakefield.  Hannah  H 289 

Walker,  Abbie  L 361 

Walker, .  Ignes  L 224 

Walker.  Alice   Emma    184 

Walker,  Benjamin    224 

Walker,  Charles  H 183 

Walker,  Charlotte  (Eaton  )   .  .  .  .  224 

Walker.  Edith  Nora   1S4 

Walker,  Ellen    441 

Walker,  Flora  (Hinds)    183 

Walker,  Flora  Hortense   184 

Walker,  Hon.  J.  H 441 

33 


i-  \.,r. 

Walker,  Ola  Maria  1X4 

Walker,  Sarah  (  I  [arrington  )    .  .  .441 
Wallace,  Hattie   (Langdon)    ...   394 

Wallace,  William    E 394 

Ward.  Donald   Butler   141 

Ward,  Ethel  Tufts 141 

Ward,  Freeman     141 

Ward,  Rev.  Joseph 140 

Ward,  Alargaret  H 141 

Ward,  Alary  Kingsbury   133 

Ward,  Sarah    (Wood)    140 

Ward,  Sheldon    141 

Wardell,  Rita  V 90 

Ware,  Albert  P 224 

Ware,  Anna  (Dunton)   362 

Ware.  Elizabeth   (Abbott)    225 

Ware.  Emma    (  Andrews  )    189 

Ware,  John  A 189,  362 

Ware.  Susan  Elizabeth  224 

A\rarner,  Dorothy    48 

Warner,  Earl   130 

Warner,  Fannie  Jane  422 

Warner,  Harriet   (Gilbert)    ....    130 

Warner.  John   128 

Warner,  Julia    (Converse)    ....     77 
Warner,  Juliet  Augusta   ..2,20,42$, 
130.  329 

Warner,  Juliette  W 419 

Warner,  Lucy  (Taylor)   128 

Warner,  Vashni   JJ 

A\rarren,  Abigail   (Banister)    ...    131 

Warren,  Arthur  Kirke   211 

Warren,  Caroline    225 

Warren,  Catherine   183 

Warren,  Charlotte    353 

Wrarren,  Charlotte  (Green)  ....   44 r 

Warren.  Dexter    441 

Warren,  Flbridge  G 441.  441 

Warren,  Eliza    225 

Warren,  Eliza   Whipple    96 

Warren .Jihnira    441 

Warren,  Fannie  (Cooper)    353 

Warren,  Frank  H 463 

Warren,  George  Waterman  ....  211 

Warren,  Helen  (Taft)   463 

Warren,  1  lerbert  Lakin    211 

W'arren,  Horace  S 403 

Warren,  Gen.  Joseph  .  .  .219,  225,  310 

Warren.  Joseph  Addison    35.; 

Warren.  Joseph  Addison.   Jr.    ..   353 
Warren.  Katherine   (Sweet)    ...   211 

Warren,  Lydia  A 441 

Warren.  Lydia  (Stone)     .  . .  .441.  441 

Warren,  Alarion   (  Lakin)    21  r 

Warren,  Alary  Ann    420 

Warren.  Mary  G 441 

Warren.  Mary  Palmer     353 

Warren.  Richard    127.  170.  3'  7 

Warren.  Samuel    211 


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Warren.  Samuel  Cooper   353 

Warren,  Sarah   Avis    326 

Warren,  Susan    88 

Warren,  I '  enah  Jane 131 

Warren.  William    131 

Warren,  Hon.  William  Wirt  ...    131 

Washburn.  Hannah  Drew   121 

Washburn,  Hon.  Henry  S 5 

Washburn,  John  Fish   293 

Washburn,  Juliette    (Allen)    ...   293 
Washburn, Lizzie  (Muzzy)    ....   115 

Washburn,  Lois   Perkins    366 

Washburn,  William  D 115 

Washburn,  William  Drew.  Jr.  .  .    115 

Waterman,  Alpheus    121 

Waterman,  Fanny  G 461 

Waterman,    Mercy    (Williams)   202 
Waterman,    Rebecca     ( Reming- 
ton)        121 

Waterman,  Resolved   202 

Waterman,  Richard   202 

Waters,  Anne   (Smith)    442 

Waters,  Frances  A 442 

Waters,  Hannah  T 421 

Waters,  J.  L 44-2 

Waters,  Mary  Ann  Fisk    387 

Waters,  Ruth   356 

Watrous,  Ralph  C 339 

Watrous,  Susan   (  Aldrich)    339 

Wayland,  Cicely    25 

Wayland,  Elizabeth    (Arms)    24,145 

Wayland,  Fanny  Hapgood  25 

Wayland,  Pres.  Francis   5 

Wayland,  Francis  Lincoln 25 

Wayland,  Rev.   H email   Lincoln     24 
Wayland,  Lillian   (Craige)    ....     25 

Wears,  Abbie  P 369 

Weaver,  Mary  Emma 364 

Webber,  Ariel    132 

Webber,  George  Nelson    ..20,20,37, 
132 

Webber,  Jane  E 132 

Webber,  Lucina   (Holmes)    ....    132 

Webster,  Daniel     263 

Webster,  Ezekiel    263 

Wedge,  Mmnic  .1 312 

Wedge,  Newell    312,312 

Wedge,  S.  Lizzie  J/.? 

Wedge,  Sarah    (Armsby)    ..312,312 

Weeden,  Huldah  A 222,287 

Weeden,  Fames   2X7 

II  eeks,  Elizabeth  A 132 

Week-,  Estelle   (  Miller)    310 

Weeks,  Francis  S 310 

Weeks,  i  I  a/el    310 

Week-.  ( !apt.   I  [iram   132.  132 

Weeks,  Margarel    (Cottle)  . .  132.  132 

'i  ,  eks,  Margaret  II 132 

Weeman,  Benjamin    361 


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Weeman,  Jane   361 

Weeman,  Phoebe  (  Spencer  )    .  .  .  361 

Welch,  Edward  F 2~j 

Welch,  Elizabeth   (Hodge)    ....  275 

Welch,  Harold  C 275 

Welch,  Marvin  J 275 

Welch,  Raymond  F 275 

Wellman,  Dr.  James  R 139 

Wellman,  Louise  (Wood)   139 

Wells,  David    312 

Wells,  Elizabeth  Johnson 413 

Wells,  Emily  Porter  413 

Wells,  Emma   (Perry)    413 

Wells,  Grace  Perry   413 

Wells,  Herbert  Comstock 413 

Wells,  Herbert  J 413 

Wells,  John  Hazard 413 

Wells,  Joseph    442 

J I 'ells.  Julia  M 442 

Wells,  Julia   (  Wicker  )    442 

Wells,  Lizzie    (Wedge)    312 

Wells,  Thomas  Perry  413 

Wernaer,  Esther   (Farr)    51 

Wernaer,  Robert  M 51 

West,  Bessie  B 279 

West,  Elinor    378 

West,  Ellen   (Gregory)    378 

West,  Gertrude    378 

West,  Grace   378 

West,  Joseph    378 

West,  Dr.  Joseph  0 378 

West,  Josephine  378 

Westbrook,  Frederic    134 

Westbrook,  Harriet    ....  133.  144,  453 

Westbrook,  Harriet   (  Briggs  )    .  .  133, 

134. 144 
Westbrook,  John  Beekman  .  .  133,  134 

Westbrook,  Jonathan    134 

Westbrook, Sarah  Maria  ...134,144 
Westcott,  Almira  (Browning)  135 
Westcott,  Almira  Elizabeth  ....   134 

Westcott,  Henry   134 

Westcott,  Henry  1) 135 

Weston,  Adeline   (  Tidd  )    170 

Weston,  Antoinette    (Baker)    ..   442 

Westi  mi.  Edmund    170 

Weston,  Edmund,  Jr 170 

Weston, Grace  Mason   170, 452, 

455- 435 

Weston,  John  Granger  170 

Weston .  Julia  .  I //-' 

Weston,  (  )rrin   II 442 

Weston,  Rebeckah  (  Soule)  ....   17° 

West,, n.  Sarah    1 408 

Wheeler.    \.    II 225 

Wheeler,  Addie  (  Mathews  )  .  . .  405 
Wheeler,.  Idelaide    135 

Wheeler.  Albert      443 

Wheeler,  Alice  Marian    405 


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r  VGl 

Wheeler,  Alice  (Palmer)   t3S  W 

Wheeler,  Almira   (Newton)    ...  [35  W 

Wheeler,  Artemas   443  W 

Wheeler,  Arthur  Clifford 313  \\ 

Wheeler,  Benjamin    I3S  Y\ 

Wheeler,  Charles    135  " 

\\  heeler,  Edward  F 265  \\ 

Wheeler,  Elizabeth 313  W 

Wheeler,  Mrs.  F.  C.  P 265  \\ 

Wheeler,  Harriet   (Lincoln)    ...  225  \\ 

Wheeler,  Herbert   W 313  W 

Wheeler,  Howard  Gleason 403  \\ 

Wheeler,  Lydia    283  W 

/  f  'heeler.  Marietta    443  W 

Wheeler,  Mary  C 225  W 

Wheeler,  Mary  (Dame)   443  W 

Wheeler,  Merrick  Wedge  313  \Y 

Wheeler,  Merrill   Halladay   ....  313  \\ 

Wheeler,  Minnie  (Wedge)    ....  312  \\ 

Wheeler,  Phinehas   443  W 

Wheeler.  Robert  W 405  W 

Wheeler,  Sarah  M 135  W 

Wheeler,  Stanley  Mathews  ....  405  W 

Wheeler,  Susie    May    405  W 

Wheeler,  Walter  A 312  W 

Wheeler,  William   T 4n3  W 

Wheelock,  Alice  A 443  W 

Wheelock,  Calvin  W 136  W 

Wheelock,  Charles  A 136  W 

Wheelock,  Chloe  C 383  W 

Wheelock,  Clarissa  Jane    136  W 

Wheelock,  Daniel  39.  41  W 

Wheelock.  Henry    433  W 

Wheelock,  Irene    (Taft)    ...433,443  W 

Wheelock.  J.  C.  F '..  99  W 

Wheelock,  Jennie    (Taft)    433  W 

Wheelock,  Jerome  40  W 

Wheelock.  John    41  W 

Wheelock.  Mary   (  Leland)    ....  136  W 

Wheelock,  Myrtie   (Williams)..  99  W 

Wheelock,  Nancy    (Seagrave)..  130  W 

Wheelock,  Paul 41  W 

Wheelock.  Paul,  Jr 41  W 

Wheelock,  Ralph    40.13(1  \Y 

Wheelock,  Samuel    41  W 

Wheelock,  Samuel.  Jr 41  W 

Wheelock, Sarah  Elizabeth  ....  136  W 

Wheelock, Sarah  fane  ..219,30,454  W 

Wheelock.  Silas  M 433.443  11 

Wheelock,  Susan    (Prentice)    ..  39  \V 

Wheelock.  Sylvia    128  Y\ 

Whelock,  Hugh  de 40  \Y 

W hidden,  Florence  M 444  \Y 

Whipple,  Eliza   (Warren)    22^  W 

Whipple.  Franklin    225  1 1 

Whipple,  Jennie  Wait   225  \\ 

Whipple,  John   302  \Y 

Whit  comb,  Eliza  Pierce  91  \\ 

White  (  family )    42;  W 


hite,  Adelphia   I  Wilder  >    ....  [36 

kite, .  Idelphia  W 

hite,  Agnes    I  Walker )    224 

hite,  Ardelia  (  Angier  )   35 

hite,  Calvin    128 

hite,  Eliza  Fox  2^,  136 

hite,  Eliza  (  I  tealey)   137 

hite,  Ella  (Goss)   :*,7'> 

hite.  Helen  Agnes   224 

hite,  Isaac  W 376 

hite,  James   137 

hite,  Jerusha   Edwards   ...212.406 

hite,  John   423 

hite,  Col.  Josiah  136 

hite,  Major  L.  G 224 

hite,  Margery  Ann   128 

hite,  Margery  (Hay  ward)   ...  128 

hite.  Lieut.  Micah   128 

hite,  Sarah   35 

hite,  Sarah  C 142 

hite,  Susan  C 287 

hite,  William   427 

hitehouse,  Frank  E .12J 

hitehouse,  Ylarcia  Scott 135 

hitehouse,  Minnie  (  Chase)   .  .  327 

hitin,  Lusannah  Russell  43<y 

luting,  Florence  R 444 

biting.  George  Elbridge 53 

biting,  Helen  (  Aldricb  )   53 

biting.  Rebecca    (Butterfield)  445 

biting,  Sarah    291 

biting,  William  Deane   443 

hitman,  Susan  E 437,  438 

hitmarsh,  Rebecca    (Sheldon.)  124 

hitmarsh,  Rev.  William  T.   ..  124 

hitney,  Albert  T 123 

hitney.  Alice  M 4ni 

hitney,  Elizabeth  L 416 

hitney,  Georgia  (Tuttle)   ....  326 

hitney,  Herbert   46] 

hitney,  Horace    4°i 

hitney,  Lura  1 4(" 

hitney.  Mabel  B 461 

hitney,  Mary  (  Bishop  )   461 

hitney,  Mary  (Rockwood)    ..  123 

hitney.  Walter  H 326 

hiton,  James  Morris  223 

'hiton,  Mary  Elizabeth   (      )  .  .  223 

'hiton,  Miriam  Blagden  223 

hitridge,  Mary  (  Amidon  )    . .  .  336 

hitridge,  Dr.  Roland  B 336 

hittemore,  Adeline  (Bisco)  ..  63 

hittemore,  Charles   137 

hittemore.  Charles  A 63 

hittemore,  Eliza  Jane   137 

hittemore.  Jane    (Allen)    ....  137 

bitten.  Mary  W 3-'i 

hitthorne.  Jane    61 

icker,  Julia  A 442 


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Index  of  Names 


Wight,  Freeman    75 

Wight,  Freeman  Clark  75 

Wight,  Pernella   (Clark)    75 

Wight,  Robert  Franklin  75 

Wightman,  Mary  G 426 

Wilcox.  Horace    180 

Wilcox,  Juliet  L 1S0 

Wilcox.  Sally   (Howell)    180 

Wilder.  Adelphia    136 

Wilder.  Fannie  (Houghton)   ...    101 

Wilder,  Joel  Thurston   101 

Wilder.  Laura  Smith 298 

Wilder,  S.  Thurston   101 

Wilkinson,  Lawrence   93 

Wilkinson,  Rebecca    93 

Willard,  Annie  Elizabeth 445 

Willard,  Charlotte   (Dean)    445 

Willard,  Elisabeth    138 

Willard,  Rev.  Erastus 270 

Willard.  Luther    138 

Willard,  Mary   (Davis)    138 

Willard,  Mary  Gates   13S 

Willard,  Sarah    237,  237,  270 

Willard,  William    445 

William,  the  Conqueror   .  . .  .327,  425 

Williams,  Abraham    271 

Williams,  Albert  C 138 

Williams,  Avaline  (or  Ava)  ...139, 
232,  235,  23511,  237,  237,  270, 
363,  366.  446 

Williams,  Bernette  (Hill)   70,  99 

Williams,  Bertha  (Baldwin)  ...  447 

Williams,  Berton    70,99 

Williams,  Caroline    (Mason)    ..     70 

Williams,  Eben    99 

Williams,  Eleanor  (Reed)   331 

Williams,  Elizabeth    25 

II  'illiains,  Ella  Louise 138 

Williams, Ella  Maria 305 

Williams  Ethel    100 

Williams.  F.   E 447 

II  'illiains.  Fannie    44<$ 

Williams,  Fanny  (Wayland)  .  .  25 
Williams,  Frances  Elisabeth  ...  1 /(> 
Williams,  Frances  (Simes)  ....  44° 
Williams,  Prof.  Frederick  Wells     25 

Williams,  George   270,271 

Williams,  George    Henry    446 

Williams,  Gustavus    B 99 

Williams.  I  larvev   331 

Williams,  Hill    99 

Williams,  James    3°5 

Williams,  John    271 

Williams,  Lena    [00 

Williams,  Lulu   I  lf> 

Williams,  Maria   (Cutler)    305 

II   Miami,  Martha  G 33' 

Williams,  Mary  Ann   130 

\\  illiam  .  Viet  cy  202 


Williams,  Myrtie   99 

Williams,  Paul    100 

Williams,  Roger    .  . .  .67,  99,  180,  202, 
287,  419 

Williams,  Sarah  (Davis)   271 

Williams,  Susan  M 271 

Williams,  Susan   (Sherman)  ...   270 

Williams,  Wayland   Wells    25 

Williams,  Wendell    99 

Williams,  William    270 

Willis,  Jane   (Gale)    446 

Willis,  Mary  J 446 

Willis,  William  W 446 

Wilmarth,  Delia   (Mowry)    ....  446 

Wilmarth,  Ruth  Brown  446 

Wilmarth,  Theophilus   Williams  446 

Wilson,  Adele   (Barney)    348 

Wilson,  Alice  ( Gaskill )    375 

Wilson,  Art  bur  E 348 

Wilson,  Charles  H 375 

Wilson,  Clara    (Peirce)    47 

Wilson,  Edith  Anna  375 

Wilson,  Edward  E 348 

Wilson,  Frances    152,  168 

Wilson,  Gertrude   (Rollins)    ...    118 

Wilson,  Helen  ( Butterick)   348 

Wilson,  J.  Millar 118 

Wilson,  M.  Anna   237 

Wilson,  Washington    47 

Winch,  Hon.  Calvin  M 62 

Winch,  Ellen   (  Belknap)    62 

Winch,  Grace  Belknap 62 

Winslow,  Col.  Edward  222 

Winslow,  John   397 

Winsor,  Allen    318 

Winsor,  Anna  Bancroft  318 

Winsor,  Bancroft  318 

Winsor,  Mary   (Bancroft )  .  .204,  318, 

451.452,453,454 
Winsor,  Walter  Pellington    ....  318 
Winsor,  Walter  Pellington,  Jr..  .   318 

Winthrop,  Gov.  John 207 

Wiswall,  Annie   51 

Wiswall,  Elizabeth  (Aver)    ....     51 

\\  is\\  all,  I  lenrv  T 51 

Wiswall,  Ruth   51 

William,  Matilda    E 360 

Wolcott,  Abigail   48 

Wolcott,  Jemima   245 

Wolcott,  (  tlivcr  245 

Wolcott,  Gov.  Roger 245 

Wood,  Abigail  26 

Wood,  Ann    (  Stearns)    447 

Wood,  Arba  Thayer  447 

Wood,  Anrin    JJ<> 

Wood,  Clara   M .V>7 

\\  ood,  Eleanor  (  Boice  )  -i^ 

Wood,  Emma  D 1 17 

Wood,  Ephraim  M :^3 


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W 1.  Harry  Ear]  88 

Wood.  Helen  M 235,  237,  323 

Wood,  Herbert  Carl  88 

Wood,  tsaac  U 447 

Wood,  foseph  140 

Wood,  Kate  (Forbush)    88 

Wood,L.  B.   (Goodell)    447 

Wood,  Louise  Holman    139 

Wood,  Louise  (Holman)   139 

Wood,  Melville   88 

Wood,  Nathaniel    139 

Wood,  Phila   (Freeman)    140 

Wood,  Rosa  Abella   447 

Wood,  Sarah  Frances    140 

Wood,  Sarah  M 226 

Wood,  Sophia  N.  (     )  323 

Woodbury, Emetine  A /// 

Woodbury,  Emeline  (Pratt)   ...    141  I 

Woodbury,  Rev.  Isaac  272,292 

Woodbury,  Jennie  L.   ..228.235,237, 

-7- 

Woodbury,  Capt.  John   272 

Woodbury,  John  272.  202 

Woodbury,  Leonard   141 

Woodbury,  Lucy    (Arnold)     272.202 
Woodbury,  Sarah   Elisabeth    ...   292 

W lbury,  William 272.  202 

Woodcock.  Catherine  (  Davis)  .  .    141 

Woodcock,  Emily  141,  142 

Woodcock,  Josephus   141 

\\'i  k  idcock,  Lucius    i_|2 

Woodcock, Maria  142 

Woodcock,  Sarah   (White)    ....    142 

Woods,  Rev.  A 152 

Woods, Caroline  Elizabeth   ....   44S 

Woods,  Charles    44S 

W Is.  Dorothy   170 

Woods,  Edwin  33 

Woods,  Ella   152,  152 

Woods,  Howard  Thorpe    170 


Wi  m  ids,  Jennie   (  Swander  I   . . . 

Woods,  Laura  (Thorpe)   170 

Wood-,  I  )r.  Lemuel   152 

Woods,  Madelaine   170 

Woods,  Mary 97 

Woods,  Mary  (  I  [ancock  )    33 

Woods,  Mary  Pierce    253 

Woods,  Sarah   (Spooner)    448 

\\ Is,  Thomas  E 170 

Wi  m  idward,  Amos  P 371 

Woodward,  Henry   3.  21 

Woodward,  J.  Annabelle  (Free- 
man)      37 1 

Woodworth,    Annie    (Daggett)  3^7 

Woodwi  irth,  John  B 357 

Workman.  I  )r 142 

Workman,  Elisabeth    142 

Works,  Sarah  M 142 

Wi  irster,  Annie  A 197 

Worster,  Annie  (  Depew  )   196 

Worster,  Henry  Thomas   196 

Worster,  Susie  A 197 

Wright,  Mr.  (of  Hanover)   ....  310 

Wright,  Alfred  Parks 205 

Wright,  Alice  Lincoln 205 

Wright,  Arthur  Andrew 217 

Wright,  Ellsworth    295 

Wright,  Florence   (Eaton)   217 

Wright,  I  [enry   Hurt   295 

Wright,  Prof.  Henry  P 205.  455 

Wright,  Maria  310 

Wright,  Martha   (  Burt )    .  ...205.  453. 
453.  453  n,  454.  454.  455 

Wright,  Prudence    424 

Wyllys,  Ame    306 

Wyllys,  Gov.  George  306 

Wyman,  Cynthia    105 

Yi  lung,  Jennie  R 91 


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